Mobile Wallets

It was only a matter of time before agentic commerce included transactions performed with digital currency. Early Friday, the 7-year-old New York City-based cryptocurrency platform MoonPay announced the launch of MoonAgents Card, a Mastercard that holders as well as AI agents can use to spend stablecoins at any e-commerce merchant …

Barely three months since taking over the top spot at PayPal Holdings Inc., Enrique Lores is heading up a reorganization of the venerable payments company. Announced late Wednesday following a CNBC report earlier in the day, PayPal says it will migrate to a three-business operating model. The three are checkout …

Visa Inc. early Wednesday announced it is expanding support for agent-led commerce to Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, and also said it is widening its venture in stablecoins with the addition of five blockchains, bringing the total to nine. The five additional blockchains include Arc from Circle Internet Financial, …

Real-estate software developer MRI Software said it has named Deluxe Corp. its official processing partner for its rent-payment technology. Commerce.com Inc., the parent company of e-commerce platform BigCommerce, said it has integrated PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Store Sync technology in BigCommerce’s App Marketplace and Channel Manager. The move aims to make Commerce merchants’ …

It’s a sobering condition of today’s payments industry that fraud is a persistent, pervasive, and unwelcome counterpart to legitimate transaction activity. Testifying to that is that 76% of U.S. organizations experienced attempted or actual fraud in 2025, says the Association for Financial Professionals’ 2026 edition of its Payments Fraud and …

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 …

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% …

Firms looking to bring stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies into the payments mainstream are working a variety of angles, as illustrated by news on multiple fronts that emerged early Tuesday. Convera USA LLC, a business-to-business payments platform and provider of foreign-exchange services, announced it will work with Ripple Labs Inc. to …