Person-to-Person Payments

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Block Inc. stopped short of assisting Cash App users whose accounts had been frozen or deactivated, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Block, the parent company of the point-of-sale technology platform Square and the financial technology Cash App, froze or deactivated Square accounts holding funds …

Ransomware victims around the world totaled 2,760 in the third quarter, up 21% from the second quarter and 75% from the same period last year, according to the Q3 2026 Ransomware and Cyber Threat Insights Report from GuidePoint Security. Hospitality technology provider Mews released survey results that found 89% of guests …

Remittances across borders are a welcome but expensive cross-border payment service for many, finds a new Visa Inc. report, “Money Travels 2026.” With the U.S. alone sending $107.1 billion in outbound remittances in 2025, according to World Bank data, remittances can have a significant impact on recipients. Yet, many have …

Processor NMI said it has expanded its NMI Business Capital program, offering new term loans and starter offers that ISOs, software companies, and software-as-a-service companies can offer merchants. U.S. consumers now expect AI agents to conduct 15% of their transactions, up from 9% a year ago, while 45% of Americans have used …

Consumers and merchants may stand to benefit in many ways from agentic commerce and artificial intelligence, but fraudsters may also see what they consider plusses of the data-centric technology, with Juniper Research forecasting global fraudulent transactions in digital banking and money transfer surpassing 2.2 billion by 2031, influenced by the …

Sole proprietors on the Cash App platform may have a way to accept payments from consumers who also have Cash App accounts. Cash App, a part of Block Inc., says a test of Cash App-funded payments to a sole proprietor with a Cash App account is under way now. It …

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, …

Just one year since its launch, the Zelle tag, a personalized identifier to make it easier for small businesses to accept Zelle payments, is in use with more than 1 million small businesses and has an average daily enrollment of 3,500 in the first two quarters of 2026, Zelle says. …

A survey from Stax Payments found that 80% of small and midsize business executives have used artificial intelligence services for work they otherwise would have hired an advisor to complete. The survey, conducted in June, was of 500 U.S. business executives. Sionic said its Instant Bank Pay and Fraud Detection service, which it announced last …