E-commerce specialist Global-e said Shop Pay’s one-click checkout is now available for its merchants using the Shopify platform. C-store chain Circle K has partnered with Car IQ, a vehicle-based payments platform, to launch Circle K Pro Digital +, a U.S.-based payments service for fuel, tolls, and other vehicle-related payments. Payroc announced it has enabled …
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Klarna Group plc said it will support the AI-based Agent Payments Protocol from Google Inc. The technology allows shopping agents to find and buy products according to criteria set by consumers. Xplor Pay announced a partnership with Gatemaster Technology, a point-of-sale and ticketing software provider, that sees Gatemaster customers gain access to …
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Buy now, pay later lenders Klarna AB and Affirm Inc. are separately partnering with Google Inc. to enhance their technology stacks. Klarna announced early Thursday it is partnering with Google Cloud to fast-track development of consumer-centric products and marketing campaigns within the Klarna app. Google Cloud is the commercial arm …
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Action in the payments industry on stablecoin plans appears to be perking up since President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law this summer, legislation whose rules are expected to spark more action by mainstream payments players on issuing and accepting the digital currency. One example emerged Wednesday with …
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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 …
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Merchants are no strangers to rising payment-processing costs. Merchant-processing fees often feel unavoidable, driven by interchange rates and card-network rules that are beyond a merchant’s control. However, in April 2025, Visa introduced a program that could reshape how merchants manage these costs: the Commercial Enhanced Data Program, also known as …
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PayPal Holdings Inc. announced it is offering 5% cash back to U.S. consumers using its buy now, pay later payment option for purchases through the end of the year. In addition, PayPal is rolling out its Pay Monthly BNPL option to in-store shoppers. The moves are expected to make PayPal’s …
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American Express Co. cardholders are about to see targeted ads from premium brands on some AmEx-owned platforms. Announced Monday, Amex Ads is a digital advertising platform to help brands reach the issuer’s 34 million U.S. cardholders. It begins on AmexTravel.com and will expand to other AmEx-owned platforms. AmEx says this …
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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. …
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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 …
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