E-Commerce

Replit Inc., a Foster City, Calif.-based developer of software for the booming agentic-commerce market, announced it will work with Visa Inc. on an integration of Visa agentic commerce into Replit’s platform. The company also reported an investment from Visa, terms of which were not specified. Visa, which launched its Intelligent …

Consumers turned to debit cards in increasing numbers in the first quarter, finds the inaugural Galileo Debit Spend Index. Released Thursday, the report found that consumer use of debit cards at both fast food and sit-down restaurants increased more than 18% in the quarter, a reversal of a downward trend …

Some 73% of online merchants are not ready for AI agents, while AI agents are at least in some cases recommending “unreliable merchants,” according to research from Ballerine, a specialist in merchant risk and compliance. The company conducted 47 interviews among card networks, acquirers, merchants, AI platforms, and payment service providers. …

Experian plc, most known among consumers as a credit-reporting agency, says it is collaborating with processor Fiserv Inc. on Experian Link, a service to make it easier for merchants to verify a consumer’s identity with debit card ownership data. Announced Wednesday, the cooperative endeavor will see Fiserv’s proprietary debit card …

Nium Pte. Ltd., a provider of cross-border payments technology, is working with Circle Internet in a collaboration using stablecoins for settlement and local currency for last-mile delivery of country-to-country transactions. The project aims to solve what the partners say is a longstanding problem—fast payments that can slow considerably when it’s …

Business-to-business billing and revenue management platform Maxio LLC said credit card surcharging is now available in its Maxio Payments service. Payments platforms Ordr and FreedomPay said they are collaborating to create a gateway and commerce platform for companies offering live entertainment around the world. Payments platform NCR Voyix Corp. said it is working with U.S. Bank’s …

Magnolia Soap & Bath Co. will adopt the Square point-of-sale system for its 50 locations, including a module designed for franchises. Founded in 2016, Magnolia uses the franchise model to expand and has stores in 17 states. It will use Square for Retail, a service that includes branded micro-sites for …

The world’s payments systems are still a long way from adopting digital currencies as a standard medium of exchange, but day by day the path to that future gets clearer. Early Monday, a 6-year-old cryptocurrency network called Mesh said it is widening an existing integration with Base, a crypto app …

Fraud and scam bad actors are adapting again to changes in technology and consumer behavior, but so, too, are organizations charged with preventing their misdeeds. In its “Spring 2026 Biannual Threats Report,” Visa Inc. points to four shifts in the second half of 2025 as fundamentally changing how criminals interact …

Technology company Self Storage Manager Inc. announced its Dynamic IVR Payment Solution has been installed at facilities operated by The Storage Center. The technology allows customers to make credit card payments via an automated phone system via interactive voice response. The Storage Center says it manages more than 60,000 storage units at …