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, …
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A Year In, Zelle tag Enrollment Surpasses 1 Million Small Businesses
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. …
Read More »SMBs Readily Employ AI and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/12/26
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 …
Read More »Swift, J.P. Morgan And BofA Usher in Faster International Money Transfer
Swift, a financial-messaging platform, said its new international money-transfer service is now live in the United States, with Bank of America Corp. and J.P. Morgan online with the service. The move follows recent launches in Canada and Germany. Swift says the new service will show recipients the full transaction amount …
Read More »Western Union 2Q Revenue Flat and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/31/26
The Western Union Co. reported June-quarter revenue of $1 billion, flat with the year-ago result. Net income of $76.7 million was down 37%. Revenue from consumer money transfers totaled $866.1 million, down 2%; for the first half of the year, consumer-transfer revenue fell 3% to $1.71 billion. Setomatic Systems, a provider …
Read More »Another Banner Quarter for ACH Transactions
Same-day automated clearing house transactions continue to surge, reaching $1.3 trillion in value in the second quarter, says Nacha. That’s up from $980 billion in value in the year-ago quarter. That value came on 435.7 million transactions, a 29.3% increase from 337 million same-day ACH transactions in the 2025 second …
Read More »Cross River Bank Powers X Money and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/28/26
X said it has become the first U.S. social-media platform to embed FDIC-insured, interest-bearing accounts, a Visa debit card, and other payments services. The move arises from a link between X Money and Cross River Bank. Working with equipifi, a buy now, pay later platform provider for financial institutions, MIT Federal Credit …
Read More »Fiserv President Leaves and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/8/26
According to a Fiserv Inc. 8-K filing, another c-suite executive is leaving the payment processor. Dhivya Suryadevara, who joined Fiserv in August 2025 as president, resigned effective July 7. Suryadevara will continue as a non-executive officer until July 31. Fiserv did not say why she was leaving. Fiserv gained a new chief …
Read More »Repay’s Latest Bid and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/30/26
Payments platform Repay Holdings Corp. reported it has received a revised, unsolicited and non-binding offer from Forager Capital Management LLC to acquire the company’s outstanding shares at $5.25 per share, in cash. Repay says its board is reviewing the offer. The proposal follows an offer in April from Forager at $4.80 per …
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