News

July, 2025

• 24 July

  Samsung Adds Installment Loans to Its Mobile Wallet

  

  Samsung Electronics America is partnering with Splitit USA Inc. to offer installment payments to Samsung wallet users. The new feature will enable Samsung wallet users to make in-store purchases using an existing Visa or Mastercard card in their wallet and pay for the purchase over time. Samsung wallet users will …
• 24 July

  Nuvei Looks to Boost Card Authorizations for North American Merchants

  

  With merchants growing more heated in their opposition to card-acceptance costs, processors are looking for strategies that could help sellers gain from improvements in card authorizations. An example emerged early Thursday with news from the big Canadian processor Nuvei Corp. that it has introduced a pair of technologies it says …
• 24 July

  Zelle Roadshow Underway and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/24/25

  

  Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments service from Early Warning Services LLC, began a multi-city financial education training roadshow with Consumer Action, a consumer protection and financial awareness organization. Payments-technology provider Alacriti said Citizens Business Bank launched real-time payments services based on Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub. The services involve connections to FedNow and the …
• 23 July

  Powering the Next Generation of Payment Monetization: Maverick Payments Empowers ISVs with a White-Labeled Payment Stack

  

  The payments landscape is rapidly evolving, moving beyond simple transaction processing to a holistic ecosystem of financial services. Maverick Payments is championing a new era for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), providing them with a robust, white labeled payment stack designed to unlock significant monetization opportunities and enhance customer stickiness. “We’re …
• 23 July

  PayPal Enables Mobile Wallet Interoperability Globally With the Launch of PayPal World

  

  PayPal Holdings Inc. early Wednesday launched PayPal World, a series of partnerships that will connect digital wallets outside the United States to its platform and enable interoperability with PayPal and Venmo wallets at the point of sale. PayPal World, which will go live this fall, will enable users to pay …
• 23 July

  A ‘Choppy’ Market Recovery and Timing Issues Lead Fiserv to Trim a Forecast

  

  Fiserv Inc. early Wednesday reported $10.65 billion in revenue for the first half of 2025, representing a 7% increase from the first six months of 2024, but it was a revised projection for revenue growth for the whole year that drew the attention of equity analysts on a group call …
• 23 July

  Corpay’s Alpha Group Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/23/25

  

  Corpay agreed to acquire Alpha Group International plc for $2.2 billion. Alpha Group provides technology to manage cross-border foreign exchange. Fraud prevention and identity verification specialist Socure released its Dispute Abuse Score, a service designed to predict the likelihood individuals will abuse dispute processes. TD Bank’s Merchant Solutions unit agreed to use Fiserv Inc. technology, …
• 22 July

  PayPal Leverages AI to Roll Out Dynamic Real-Time Fraud Alerts

  

  PayPal Holdings Inc. announced early Tuesday the launch of an AI-powered fraud-detection system that provides PayPal and Venmo users real-time alerts before a payment is made. The new feature, available to PayPal and Venmo users globally, is intended to protect users from sending payments that are not eligible for refunds, …
• 22 July

  Eye on POS: GrabScanGo’s Easy Self-Checkout; Uncle Sharkii Picks Square; Verifone Enables Brazil’s Pix Acceptance in U.S.

  

  It’s a busy time in the point-of-sale arena as three vendors—GrabScanGo, Square, and Verifone—note new products, customers, and features. GrabScanGo, the product name for GSG AveriGo LLC, says it has made its self-checkout platform a plug-and-play installation. Cerritos, Calif.-based GrabScanGo says the self-checkout platform, already in use in hotel brands such …
• 22 July

  Eyewear Retailer Adopts Affirm and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/22/25

  

  Affirm Inc. said it will offer its installment-payment services to customers of New Look Vision Group in Canada. The company operates 475 stores in Canada and the United States. Payments platform Payroc announced it has agreed to acquire LedgerPay Inc., which does business as PayiQ. With the acquisition, Payroc says it will gain …