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The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced its Mastercard-branded Bybit Card has reached 3 million users a little more than three years after its introduction. The card enables users to spend both fiat and digital currencies. The Cost of Bills Index from bill-payment platform doxo indicates a wide gulf between the most and least expensive states, …

Blackhawk Network, best known as a gift card platform, says it wants to make it easier for brands to present a consolidated view of a consumer’s gift card balance, refunds, promotional funds, loyalty rewards, and funds used to appease unhappy shoppers. The company’s new stored-value platform enables brands to send …

Bill-payment platform InvoiceCloud introduced its Billing Experience, which it says relies on AI throughout billing and payments operations. The peer-to-peer payments service Zelle named 10 MBA students as recipients of the Zelle Community Development & Entrepreneurship Scholarship, which was open to MBA students at five historically Black colleges and universities. PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo P2P payments …

As the number of U.S. consumers who have heard nothing at all about artificial intelligence continues to drop, organizations are preparing for the expected infusion of AI into everyday life. Payments companies are no exception. American Express Co. is releasing a software-development kit called Agentic Commerce Experiences to help consumers …

As cryptocurrencies edge ever closer to the payments mainstream, they are fitting themselves into day-to-day usage in a bid to win user loyalty. One such application is money transfers, a market that has now attracted the world’s second largest crypto exchange by volume. The Bybit exchange, based since 2022 in …

Visa Inc. released six new or updated dispute-resolution services, a year after acquirers became subject to the then-new Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program. Known as VAMP, the program, according to Visa, consolidated five fraud and dispute programs and reduced 38 distinct remediation processes into one program. According to Oscar Bello, Chargeback …

A fintech startup called CARD91 launched VerifyIQ, an AI-based identity-verification tool for card issuance, account opening, and other applications. BitRail LLC, a provider of digital wallets and payment technology, said it has added new services in partnership with the processor PaymentLock Inc., including branded online checkout and pay-now buttons, a virtual terminal, …

U.S. consumers are nothing if not habit-driven. New research from Global Payments Inc. suggests that credit and debit cards accounted for 49% of all online shopping and 71% of in-store shopping in 2025, as reported in the 2026 edition of the Global Payments Report. That is virtually unchanged from 49% …