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Artificial-intelligence tools continue to find their way into the payments system. Two companies, Seon and Sigma360, are the latest to incorporate AI into new products. Austin, Texas-based Seon Technologies Ltd. says its new AI suite can help reduce manual review times on transactions by up to 50%. It does this by …
September, 2025
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24 September
Chargeback Guru’s VAMP Tool and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/24/25
Chargeback Gurus introduced its VAMP Risk Calculator, aimed at assisting merchants in calculating their financial liability under the Visa Acquiring Monitoring Program, which will be enforced as of Oct. 1. PayPal Holdings Inc. has agreed to sell, over a two-year period, approximately $7 billion in buy now, pay later receivables originated in …
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23 September
Finastra Launches End-to-End ACH Processing Solution
Finastra, a London-based payment software provider, has added an ACH module to its Global PAYplus end-to-end payment processing solution. The new module will provide financial institutions with an alternative to legacy ACH processing systems, which can be less efficient and have limited scalability. With the addition of an ACH module, …
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23 September
Consumer Reports Issues a Fintech Playbook That Could Aid Trust
Consumer-advocacy organization Consumer Reports on Tuesday issued its “Fairness By Design Playbook” with expectations it can help fintechs build consumer trust. The new guide starts with the Consumer Reports thesis that what it calls fair design is not just beneficial to consumers, but can help organizations create sustainable financial products …
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23 September
Mastercard’s Alipay Tie-in and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/23/25
Mastercard Inc. is working with Alipay+, Ant International’s wallet, to introduce near-field communication capability for overseas transactions on Kakao Pay, a mobile wallet in South Korea. In related news, Mastercard launched its Global Reach Partner Program, aimed at easing expansion into new markets for merchants through consulting and advice. Paga Group, an African …
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22 September
SpotOn Launches a Tip Payout App; Toast Looks to Fight Food Insecurity
SpotOn Transact LLC has launched DayCheck, an earned-tip payment app that automates employee tip payouts for restaurants. The app, which integrates with SpotOn’s Teamwork labor-management platform, automatically calculates tips earned by employees. After tips have been calculated, the information flows into Teamwork, which records the payouts in the payroll report, …
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22 September
Eye on Travel: CellPoint Digital’s Orchestration Move; Navan Readies for an IPO
Travel-payments specialist CellPoint Digital is launching a platform to tie into a new retailing model quickly being adopted by the travel industry. In related news, Navan Inc., an expense-management platform, is readying for a public stock offering. London-based CellPoint Digital says its new One Source Orchestration platform is tailored to …
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22 September
Paysafe Picks up CMC and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/22/25
Paysafe Ltd. will process payments for online-trading and investment platform CMC Markets under a newly announced agreement. Some 83% of U.S. executives think that by 2027 most payments will be assisted in some fashion by artificial intelligence, but 25% report they’re losing at least $1 million a year at online checkout, …
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19 September
Holiday Sales Will Slow as Tariffs And Inflation Weigh on Consumers
Two reports, one from Mastercard Inc. and another from Omnisend, an email and SMS marketing platform for e-commerce businesses, indicate that sales during the 2025 holiday season will grow at a slower rate than the previous year as consumers wrestle with higher prices due to inflation and tariffs. The Mastercard …
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19 September
Early Warning Looks to Work With U.S. Agencies to Fight Fraud
Early Warning Services LLC has for several years now been defending its popular Zelle payments service against allegations that its users suffer excessive losses to scams and fraud. The issue reached a crescendo three years ago with criticism from U.S. Senators about the peer-to-peer payments service’s fraud rates. With the …