News

August, 2025

• 18 August

  No Summer Holiday for RTP As Volume Increases

  

  Taking time off and getting away may be top-of-mind for many in the summer, but the payments system has little time for that, especially real-time payments networks. Real-time payments over the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, increased over both the Memorial Day and July 4 weekends, …
• 18 August

  Payoneer Partners with Stripe and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/18/25

  

  U.S. payments fintech Payoneer Inc. announced it will work with Stripe Inc. to offer an improved Payoneer Checkout service for small and medum-size merchants, starting in the Asia-Pacific region. The collaboration will enable more payment methods, including buy now, pay later from Affirm Inc. and Klarna AB and digital wallets from Apple …
• 15 August

  Routable Adds FedNow to Speed Accounts Payable

  

  Routable, a San Francisco-based accounts-payable platform provider, has expanded its support for real-time payments through connectivity to FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s 2-year-old real-time payments platform.  With the addition of FedNow, Routable says its customers have the ability to send instant payments to as many as 85% of bank accounts in …
• 15 August

  Gift Card Demand Is Poised to Increase This Holiday Season

  

  The percentage of consumers purchasing gift cards has gone up and is expected to increase yet more this year, finds a new report Bank of America Corp. commissioned from TSG, a payments advisory firm. The report found that 38% of respondents purchased a digital gift card in 2024, up from …
• 15 August

  Booking.com’s New Rewards Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/15/25

  

  Booking.com has launched its Genius Rewards Visa Signature credit card, offering travel-related rewards and issued by First Electronic Bank. Xsolla, a commerce company for game developers, said its Pay Station platform now supports pay by bank in the U.S. market and the Affirm buy now, pay later service in the U.S. …
• 14 August

  Customer Satisfaction And Card Usage Drop When Sellers Levy Credit Card Surcharges, Says J.D. Power

  

  Credit card usage and cardholder satisfaction decline when merchants levy a surcharge to offset their card-acceptance costs, J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction study finds. When consumers are levied a surcharge, satisfaction scores drop 39 points to 602 on a 1,000-point scale, compared to consumers that have not been …
• 14 August

  Eye on AI: Worldpay Adds AI Safeguards; Pushpay’s Approach to AI

  

  As artificial intelligence use builds in the commercial world, its manifestations in consumer-facing payments applications continue to emerge. The latest developments include processor Worldpay using Trulioo’s identity technology for AI-enabled measures in agentic commerce and Pushpay’s introduction of AI tools for ministry leaders. Worldpay, which is expected to be acquired …
• 14 August

  Early Warning Faces NY Zelle Lawsuit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/14/25

  

  The payments platform Early Warning Services LLC has been sued by the state of New York for allegedly failing to protect Zelle users from what the state charges were “massive amounts of fraud.” Zelle is EWS’s peer-to-peer payments network. EWS officials couldn’t be immediately reached for comment. Processor Jack Henry has launched Tap2Local, which …
• 13 August

  Affirm Partners With Stripe And Google Pay; Zip’s Chrome Autofill Integration

  

  Buy now, pay later platform Affirm Holdings Inc. has expanded its partnership with Stripe Inc. to make its BNPL services available to in-store shoppers through the Stripe terminal. Stripe, which has deployed more than a million terminals, is making Affirm available as a payment method to physical merchants in the …
• 13 August

  Circle’s Shares and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/13/25

  

  Circle Internet Group Inc. announced a public offering of 10 million shares of its Class A common stock, with 2 million shares offered by Circle and the balance by current shareholders. Circle on Tuesday unveiled Arc, a payments platform aimed at major money flows. Payments-technology provider Alacriti Inc. said Beginnings Credit Union has adopted …