Fraud & Security

New research from Datos Insights found that credit and debit cardholders globally made 1.1 trillion purchases worth $45.5 trillion in 2024. Buy now, pay later provider Splitit launched its Agentic Commerce Partner Program, an invitation-only effort to bring card-linked installment payments to autonomous shopping agents. Some 86% of restaurant operators are comfortable with the …

Socure, an AI platform for digital identity verification and fraud prevention, announced early Wednesday the launch of Hosted Flows, fraud-detection technology that enables users to build, customize, and deploy branded identity verification and fraud prevention capability without the need for programming code. With Hosted Flows, product, risk, and compliance teams …

Helcim announced it is the first payments provider to be included in the Verizon Business Marketplace, a software market for small and mid-size businesses. The news follows Helcim’s launch in April of Faster Deposits, a service aimed at delivering next-business-day funding of digital-payment receipts to merchants. Stax Payments, a payments-technology provider, said …

Loan payouts are picking up steam as a use case for instant payments, joining such applications as earned wage access, wallet funding, marketplace/gaming, and peer-to-peer payments, according to the 2025 U.S. Instant Payments Adopting Quantitative Study from the U.S. Faster Payments Council. Respondents to the study serve more than 90% of U.S. …

The Gift Card Fraud Prevention Alliance is launching a nationwide social-media campaign to combat gift card fraud this holiday shopping season. The campaign, which runs from Oct. 1 through Christmas Day, will deliver daily messages through the LinkedIn and Instagram platforms on the tactics criminals use to perpetrate gift card fraud …

Nuvei Corp. launched its artificial intelligence-enabled Integration Agent. The tool could help merchants and Nuvei’s partners onboard within hours instead of weeks, Nuvei said. Bank of America Corp. announced its AI-based Ask Global Payments Solutions service, which the banking giant says can answer questions within seconds for its 40,000 business clients globally. …

Fiserv Inc. said it has acquired Smith Consulting Group, a Lake Mary, Fla.-based advisory service for community banks and credit unions. Terms were not disclosed. Reverb, a marketplace for musicians, has introduced its Reverb Wallet, which allows sellers to use marketplace earnings to buy new musical gear. The wallet was developed …

Artificial-intelligence tools continue to find their way into the payments system. Two companies, Seon and Sigma360, are the latest to incorporate AI into new products. Austin, Texas-based Seon Technologies Ltd. says its new AI suite can help reduce manual review times on transactions by up to 50%. It does this by …

Early Warning Services LLC has for several years now been defending its popular Zelle payments service against allegations that its users suffer excessive losses to scams and fraud. The issue reached a crescendo three years ago with criticism from U.S. Senators about the peer-to-peer payments service’s fraud rates. With the …

Payments-technology developer Echelon Payments said it will expand into processing for non-profit organizations by working with Create.Payments, a payments provider specializing in that market. Nuvei Corp. said its partnership with Loop Global, an electric vehicle charging services company, now includes direct local acquiring capabilities for turnkey unattended EV charging terminals in Canada. Embedded-payments …