Mobile Commerce

Visa Inc. has taken steps to make smart phones a more readily available way for merchants, especially micro-size ones, to digitally accept payments with updates to Visa Pay, Visa Accept, and Visa Direct. With Visa Accept, announced in April 2025, Visa makes it easier for these small sellers to get …

The summer travel season has arrived, promising big volume uplifts for payments processors. But wonky payments, checkout letdowns, and fraud fears could lead to less volume than travel companies expect, according to a pair of travel reports released Tuesday. So far, demand looks strong. Some 91% of consumers are planning …

Payments platform Repay Holdings Corp. reported it has received a revised, unsolicited and non-binding offer from Forager Capital Management LLC to acquire the company’s outstanding shares at $5.25 per share, in cash. Repay says its board is reviewing the offer. The proposal follows an offer in April from Forager at $4.80 per …

No sooner has agentic commerce entered the domain of digital payments than questions have sprung up regarding issues of trust and identity. The trust issue in particular came to the fore early Monday with survey results indicating that just 19% of adult consumers in the U.K. trust that AI agents …

Merchants wrestle with fraud every day, lamenting how much is lost in each bad transaction. LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as it’s done for a number of years, has quantified the actual cost beyond the item’s value. In 2026, the total cost of every $1 in fraud is $5.13 in the United …

Payment card issuer CPI Card Group Inc. said it has acquired instant-issuance technology from HID Global Corp. The all-cash deal closed June 23, CPI said, though price and other terms were not announced. Affirm Holdings Inc. said retailer Backcountry will add Affirm as a payment method on Backcountry.com and its other sites. Mastercard …

Landing the top-of-wallet spot remains a coveted and enviable location for card issuers, and its online counterpart—card-on-file—is no less sought after. That’s what processor and banking services provider Fiserv Inc. is working on with Strivve Inc. to help issuers get more of their cards stored as card-on-file. Announced Wednesday, the …

The American Arbitration Association, working with Integra Ledger and other companies, announced the launch of the Legal Context Protocol for agentic commerce. The participants say the protocol constitutes an open standard for legal terms, consent, and dispute resolution for transactions performed by AI agents on behalf of people and organizations. Fraud prevention …

The idea of using AI agents to shop online on the consumer’s behalf intrigues payments providers and consumers alike, but the full rollout of this technology is going to depend on how much buyers and processors can trust the technology, according to survey results released early Tuesday. That need for …