Fraud & Security

Checkout.com launched direct acquiring in the United States under its Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank charter in Georgia. Mastercard Inc. announced Mastercard Wallet Pay, a set of technologies enabling interoperability and encouraging innovation among wallets for contactless and online payments. Some 4.3 billion persons globally now use digital wallets, a number expected …

Some 72% of U.S. consumers have used an AI assistant for shopping, but just 23% trust AI to manage payments, according to the Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce. The survey took place May 26-28 among a sample of 2,065 consumers, though the sample for the payment transaction question was 1,028 to …

Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is adding the Flex Pay buy now, pay later payment method from Upgrade Inc. to enable guests to make installment payments for season passes and other products. In related news, Visa Canada renewed its partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival, noting that 2027 will be …

Shopline, a commerce platform, has agreed to integrate card-linked installment payments capability from Splitit. Finzly, a money-movement platform operating on ACH and real-time rails, has launched Assure, a service intended to protect banks against attacks by rogue AI agents. The new service is part of Finzly’s Agentic Galaxy set of AI …

With account-to-account transaction growth forecasted by Juniper Research to increase 83% by 2030, card brands and financial institutions are readying more fraud-prevention measures. The latest is a fraud score for A2A payments from Visa Inc. Announced Tuesday, the updated version of Visa’s A2A Protect service now includes a fraud score, …

The payments industry’s embrace of agentic commerce took a step forward early Tuesday with an announcement from EMVCo that the standards body has developed a framework for “secure, interoperable, and scalable” agentic transactions using cards. The framework is by no means a final set of rules, but is intended as …

ACI Worldwide Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Cranium Ventures, a developer of technology for switching card-based transactions. Cranium will become part of ACI’s Connetic for Cards payments-orchestration unit, launched in March. ACI says its various units process more than 300 billion card transactions per year. Terms of the deal, which …

First-party fraud, often called friendly fraud, is the bane of online retailers. Chargeback management provider Chargebacks911 says friendly fraud accounts for 43.8% of total chargebacks in its 2026 Field Report. Relying on responses from more than 250 merchants, the report also finds 83.4% of enterprise merchants reported an increase in …

Nasdaq Verafin, a developer of fraud-prevention technology, and Q6 Cyber, a supplier of fraud intelligence, have paired to offer a service to financial institutions that the parties say helps identify and respond faster to scam threats on the dark Web as they are developing. The partnership, announced early Thursday, is …

Visa Inc. announced the latest version of its Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness, which the card network says will help reduce the time between the discovery and resolution of fraud-attack paths. Some resolution times can be cut from weeks to hours, Visa says. Payments-technology company CARD91 launched SpendFlow, a commercial card program it says …