Fraud & Security

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 …

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 …

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 …

As AI makes advances in digital commerce, payments executives are beginning to raise questions about the process and its risks. For some players, the process remains at least partly opaque on such questions as what party takes responsibility when transactions go wrong. Other pending questions include whether the industry can …

Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB said Tekion Corp., developer of software for the automotive retail industry, will make Klarna available to customers using the Tekion Automotive Retail Cloud platform. Flywire, a payments-technology platform, announced an agreement to expand an existing link to Driftwood Hospitality Management to support payments at nearly …

Open-banking specialist Plaid Inc. unveiled Plaid Guaranteed Payments, a bank payment service. Plaid said the service will evaluate each transaction in real time and return an approval decision within milliseconds. If Plaid approves the transaction, it will guarantee the settlement. If the payment fails, it will cover the loss and handle recovery, …

Just as legitimate transactions are a certainty in payments, so too, are fraud and scams. That doesn’t mean payments companies and their vendors need to just accept that. Now, Mastercard Inc. says it is countering fraud and scams with a new service, Mastercard Merchant Trust Services, to help clients identify …

Some 53% of U.S. consumers carry a balance on their credit cards in response to rising costs, while 25% carry a balance for six months or more, says a survey from personal-finance platform Achieve. The research, conducted in March by the Achieve Center for Consumer Insights, queried 2,000 consumers. Xero, a …

Card-issuing platform Marqeta Inc. reported it processed $112 billion in transaction volume in the March quarter, up 33% year-over-year, generating revenue of $166 million, a 19% rise. Net income swung to a positive $8 million from an $8-million net loss a year ago. MoneyGram will work with the crypto platform Kraken worldwide to allow …

It’s heady days for payments and artificial intelligence applications as payments companies prepare for expected growth in AI-assisted commerce. This extends beyond online shopping with Verifone Inc.’s incorporation of AI into Commander, its point-of-sale system for fuel retailers and convenience-store operators. New York City-based Verifone says AI utilities are part …