Fraud & Security

Processor ACI Worldwide Inc. announced fourth-quarter revenue of $253.2 million, up 13% year-over-year, while full-year 2025 revenue totaled slightly more than $1 billion, a 12.3% increase from 2024. Net income for the quarter slid 35% to $64.3 million, though for the full year it climbed 12.6% to $226.7 million. NCR Voyix Corp., …

American Express Co. said it will build a new headquarters building in New York, encompassing nearly 2 million square feet of office space. Expected to be completed in 2031, AmEx will be the sole occupant and owner of the structure. It did not disclose the estimated cost of the 55-floor building, …

Fuel retailer Citgo Petroleum Corp. launched Citgo PlusPAY, a mobile payment method that now offers automated clearing house payments. Processor accesso Technology Group has renewed through 2030 an agreement to handle ticketing for the State Fair of Texas. The fair takes place over 24 days in the fall, attracting more than 2 million …

Domain-name registrar GoDaddy Inc. said an integration with the MuleSoft Agent Fabric from Salesforce Inc. is intended help companies pinpoint AI agents and establish their identity before they get access to companies’ sensitive data. Advent International said it has agreed to sell two payments companies, Newpay and Group Prisma, to Visa Inc. Terms …

Mexico-based payments-technology provider Clip launched a tap-to-pay capability for Android devices. The move follows Clip’s launch earlier this month of a new point-of-sale device, the Clip Total 3. Justt, a provider of chargeback management based on AI, said it will work with franchise-business advisor Ron Feldman to help franchise systems reduce chargebacks and disputes …

Chip cards are coming to state benefit programs, with the latest development emerging from Alabama. The state’s Department of Human Resources is mailing electronic benefit cards embedded with chips as a means to combat fraud, according to an announcement early Friday from the chip card supplier, Conduent Inc. The chip …

Artificial intelligence has long been a part of payments, known early on as machine learning, but now it’s shifting from a predictive function to agentic AI, where systems act, not just advise, said Joseph Arthur, managing partner at RPY Innovations, a payments consultancy. Speaking on a panel at the Northeast …

Visa Inc. announced Visa Direct, its near real-time payment service soon will offer cross-border money movement into the Chinese mainland via a partnership with UnionPay International, the Chinese card brand. The Fiserv Small Business Index, which tracks small business transaction activity across the Fiserv Inc. merchant base, declined one point to 143 …

Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Holdings Inc. will be the exclusive pay-over-time provider integrated with QuickBooks Payments under an agreement announced by QuickBooks provider Intuit Inc. and Affirm. BizTrip AI, whose technology uses AI to help manage payments and other functions in corporate travel, raised $1.5 million in new funding led …