News

October, 2025

• 9 October

  Stablecoins Remain Hot As Banks Vie For Issuance And Related Services

  

  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 …
• 9 October

  $45.5 Trillion in Card Purchases and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/9/25

  

  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 …
• 8 October

  Socure Unveils Customizable Fraud Detection; Thredd’s Single Point Fraud Monitoring

  

  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 …
• 8 October

  Square’s Latest Release Marks Food and Beverage Updates Along with AI and Bitcoin Changes

  

  Six months after fully revising its point-of-sale app and adding modes to enable merchants to tailor it to their needs, the acquirer is out now with what it says is its largest update to its food and beverage platform. Square, a unit of Block Inc., also released updates to Square …
• 8 October

  Worldpay’s East West Tie-in and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/8/25

  

  The processor Worldpay said it will offer commercial and business customers of East West Bank access to point-of-sale, e-commerce, and loyalty technology under a new agreement. FIS Inc. has agreed to sell Worldpay to Global Payments Inc. in a deal that is expected to close in the first half of next year. Block Inc. has …
• 7 October

  Expanding into healthcare as an ISV growth strategy: how embedding payments can streamline revenue cycle management

  

  Lisa Brooks, Vice President, Healthcare Partner Management – U.S. Bank | Elavon Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and SaaS providers have long viewed healthcare as a rich target for vertical expansion. The market is large, highly regulated, and plagued with inefficiency. Many vendors break into this space by solving one part …
• 7 October

  How PayPal’s Ads Manager Helps Cement Its Links to Merchants

  

  PayPal Holdings Inc. has officially launched PayPal Ads Manager, a service that allows merchants to act as their own retail media network and generate new revenue streams, PayPal says. Retail media networks are advertising platforms that allow retailers to sell ad space across the media channels they own or control, …
• 7 October

  COMMENTARY: Visa’s New Commercial Enhanced Data Program: What Merchants Need to Know

  

  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 …
• 7 October

  Helcim Joins Verizon Program and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/7/25

  

  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 …
• 6 October

  PayPal Adds Cash Back to BNPL for the Holidays And Expands BNPL to In-Store Purchases

  

  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 …