Saturday , February 7, 2026

Fraud & Security

Another Step for Pay by Bank and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/6/25

Trustly, an open-banking specialist, will work with payments specialist Spreedly to offer pay-by-bank services to merchants. ACI Worldwide Inc. will work with Banfico, a provider of technology for open banking and regulatory compliance, to help banks and payment service providers in Europe comply with confirmation of payee and verification of payee …

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Financial Services Companies Are Embracing AI for Customer Interaction and in the Back Office

A new report from Nvidia Corp. sheds some light on how quickly and broadly the financial-services industry has picked up on using artificial intelligence tools for the customer experience and in the back office. In its latest “State of AI in Financial Services” report, Nvidia found that 60% of more …

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Checkbook Adds Visa Direct and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/5/25

Payments platform Checkbook said its users can now deposit funds in real time through Visa Direct to fund bank accounts connected to more than 4 billion debit cards. Merchant’s Pact, a provider of payments services for banks, said an integration with Q2 Holdings Inc.’s digital-banking service will allow banks to offer an …

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Cyberfraud On the Rise Thanks to AI; Worldpay Acquires Ravelin to Boost Its Fraud Fighting Tech

Thanks to criminals’ increasing adoption of artificial intelligence, cyberfraud rose 14% in 2024, according to a report from Trustpair, a provider of fraud-prevention technology. Overall, 90% of U.S. companies were targeted by cyber fraud the past year, compared to 79% in 2023. The increase is being driven by criminals’ use …

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RTP Passes 1 Billion Mark and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/3/25

The Clearing House Payments Co.’s Real Time Payments Network said it passed 1 billion cumulative payments on Friday. The network, operated by TCH since 2017, also set single-day records Friday for number of payments, at 1,592,419, and value, at $1.44 billion. New York City-based TCH is owned by 20 large commercial banks. President Donald …

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Visa Touts Its X Money Deal As It Celebrates Results for Tokens, Credentials, And ‘Tap’ Services

Continuing its focus on developing consumer payments, tapping new business flows, and providing value-added services, Visa Inc. late Thursday posted a strong start to its 2025 fiscal year. Speaking to equity analysts, Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney highlighted Visa’s recent deal with X, formerly Twitter, to power the social-media platform’s …

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Bluefin’s P2PE Offering and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/31/25

Bluefin said it will offer point-to-point encryption capability for the event-management platforms Event Guru and Registration Guru. AstroPay, a Brazil-based cross-border payments fintech, said it has been granted a payment-institution license by the Central Bank of Brazil. Magwitch, a lending-as-a-service platform, has integrated real-time point-of-sale lending technology from U.S. Bank Avvance. …

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Porter Airlines’ New Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/29/25

Porter Airlines this spring will launch its VIPorter Mastercard card program, working with Mastercard Inc. and the Canadian banking giant BMO. Payments platform Repay announced an integration with the underwriting platform Worth to allow for faster merchant onboarding and vendor connections. Credit union service organization Velera released its card-on-file service that enables cardholders to update …

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How Mega Data Breaches Dominated in 2024

2024 was the year of the mega-data breach, with six breaches accounting for 85%, or 1.4 billion, of the 1.7 billion breach notices sent to victims in 2024. That’s according to The Identity Theft Resources Center’s annual Data Breach report, released early Tuesday. At least 100 million breach notices were …

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Deluxe Debuts dlxPAY and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/21/25

Deluxe Corp. launched dlxPAY, a mobile app that offers merchants a suite of features, including real-time transaction management, advanced security, and customizable notifications, to give them more insight into their payment processing. The app also is compatible with the Ingenico Moby 5500 point-of-sale device. Two trade associations have sued the Consumer Financial …

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