News

October, 2025

• 2 October

  Merchants, Government, And Law Enforcement Look to Fight Gift Card Fraud

  

  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 …
• 2 October

  Priority Expands in Automotive Servicing, Adding Dealer Merchant Services

  

  Priority Technology Holdings Inc. announced early Thursday it is expanding aggressively into automotive servicing with its acquisition of DMSJV LLC, also known as Dealer Merchant Services, a payments provider whose capabilities include surcharging to help dealers cover transaction costs. Terms were not announced, but Alpharetta, Ga.-based Priority said a $35-million increase …
• 2 October

  An Digital Tip Win and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/2/25

  

  Instant Financial USA Inc., a platform that digitizes payments for hourly workers, said it has been chosen by the Munson Group to launch digital tips and paycards for workers at Munson’s 33 Sonic Drive-In and Buffalo Wild Wings locations. Theatre Capital announced it has acquired AllPaid Inc., a payments platform serving …
• 1 October

  Jack Henry Acquires Victor Technologies; Global Payments Sheds Its Payroll Business

  

  Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has acquired Victor Technologies Inc., a provider of embedded-payment solutions, from MVB Financial Corp. for an undisclosed sum. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, MVB says it expects to see a pre-tax gain of $33 million from the sale. The acquisition widens an …
• 1 October

  Eye on Checkout: Affirm lands Ace Hardware for BNPL; Amazon’s Buy With Prime Adds New Retailers

  

  Just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season, merchants are ready with new e-commerce checkout options. A hardware cooperative is adding the buy now, pay later option from Affirm for in-store use. Brands Dearfoams and Baggallini now offer Buy with Prime, the Amazon.com Inc. online checkout service. Oak Brook, …
• 1 October

  Merrick Relaunches Ollo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/1/25

  

  The credit card issuer Merrick Bank has re-launched its Ollo credit card with a refreshed design and new technology. The card was first issued in 2017 as a product for U.S. consumers facing challenges in obtaining a credit card. Valor PayTech, a 5-year-old provider of point-of-sale technology for merchants, announced it has …

September, 2025

• 30 September

  OpenAI And Stripe Are the Latest Fintechs to Enable Agentic Commerce

  

  Agentic commerce got a huge boost late Monday as OpenAI, the provider of such artificial-intelligence applications as ChatGPT, launched Instant Checkout, an agentic-commerce protocol developed with Stripe Inc. The Agentic Commerce Protocol is an open standard for AI commerce that enables AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of individuals …
• 30 September

  Visa Heralds a Pilot for Cross Border Payments Funded by Stablecoins

  

  Visa Inc. announced early Tuesday it will launch a cross-border payments service that will rely on stablecoins to fund transfers. The service, meant ultimately as an improvement on existing transfers that require users to commit capital in advance, will run on the payments company’s Visa Direct real-time payments rails. It …
• 30 September

  Nuvei’s AI Onboarding Agent and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/30/25

  

  Nuvei Corp. launched its artificial intelligence-enabled Integration Agent. The tool could help merchants and Nuvei’s partners onboard within hours instead of weeks, Nuvei said. Bank of America Corp. announced its AI-based Ask Global Payments Solutions service, which the banking giant says can answer questions within seconds for its 40,000 business clients globally. …
• 29 September

  Eye on Processors: Worldpay’s All In on Embedded Finance; An Acquisitive Fiserv Strikes Another Deal

  

  Embedded payments and embedded finance have taken on an almost viral adoption within the payments industry, and the latest to tweak their services is processor Worldpay Inc. with its new Embedded Finance Engine. In related news, Fiserv Inc. says it will acquire StoneCastle Cash Management in a bid to better …