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With account-to-account transaction growth forecasted by Juniper Research to increase 83% by 2030, card brands and financial institutions are readying more fraud-prevention measures. The latest is a fraud score for A2A payments from Visa Inc. Announced Tuesday, the updated version of Visa’s A2A Protect service now includes a fraud score, …
September, 2026
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1 September
EMVCo’s Effort to Reinforce Trust in Card-Based Agentic Commerce
The payments industry’s embrace of agentic commerce took a step forward early Tuesday with an announcement from EMVCo that the standards body has developed a framework for “secure, interoperable, and scalable” agentic transactions using cards. The framework is by no means a final set of rules, but is intended as …
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1 September
ACI To Acquire Cranium and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/1/26
ACI Worldwide Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Cranium Ventures, a developer of technology for switching card-based transactions. Cranium will become part of ACI’s Connetic for Cards payments-orchestration unit, launched in March. ACI says its various units process more than 300 billion card transactions per year. Terms of the deal, which …
August, 2026
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31 August
Subscription Management Is One Tool in Array and Narmi’s Bank Tool Suite
Array US Inc. and Narmi want to enable banks to offer consumer-finance management tools to their customers with a suite of products, including subscription management. Array, a fintech platform, and Narmi, a digital-banking platform, say the collaboration—called Narmi FinHealth—will give financial institutions an easier way to provide these tools to …
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31 August
Bilt Enlists Jackman for Rent Day and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/31/26
Payments platform Bilt said its Bilt Rent Day, which occurs the first day of each month, is collaborating with Global Citizen and actor Hugh Jackman Sept. 26 to promote the event. Bilt allows users to earn rewards on rent and other housing expenses. TD Bank announced it has moved tokenized dollar-denominated funds between …
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28 August
Nearly 44% of Chargebacks Are Labeled Friendly Fraud, Finds a Chargebacks911 Report
First-party fraud, often called friendly fraud, is the bane of online retailers. Chargeback management provider Chargebacks911 says friendly fraud accounts for 43.8% of total chargebacks in its 2026 Field Report. Relying on responses from more than 250 merchants, the report also finds 83.4% of enterprise merchants reported an increase in …
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28 August
Affirm and Shopify Expand Shop Pay to Australia, the Pair’s Fourth Market
The installment-payments platform Affirm Holdings Inc. and online commerce service Shopify late Thursday announced they have expanded their 5-year-old collaboration, Shop Pay Installments, to Australia. The service, which lets consumers use the Shop Pay button to check out on e-commerce sites and then pay over time with Affirm, is active …
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28 August
PayPal Pursuit Ends and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/28/26
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s shares fell early Friday following news reports late Thursday that Stripe and Advent have abandoned their pursuit of the payments giant. PayPal’s board reportedly spurned the Stripe/Advent offer of $53 billion, or $60.50 per share, as too low. PayPal’s shares were trading at $61.47 at the market’s close Thursday. Some 47% …
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27 August
Experian Deploys a ChatGPT Plugin to Help Consumers Find Credit Cards
With nearly 59% of U.S. consumers knowingly using an artificial-intelligence chatbot, according to the Pew Research Center, credit-reporting agency Experian plc is putting its credit card marketplace into AI tool ChatGPT. Announced Thursday, the plugin, available on ChatGPT’s plugin site, lets consumers explore credit card options for various types, such …
