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July, 2025

• 30 July

  Cash App Launches Pools and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/30/25

  

  Block Inc.’s Cash App has launched pools, a peer-to-peer payments capability that enables group payments with what Block calls “a few taps.” Routable, a provider of accounts-payable technology, said it will work with Brale, a stablecoin developer, to enable businesses to pay vendors and contractors in stablecoin through Routable’s platform. The blockchain …
• 29 July

  Darwinium Launches New Tools to Combat AI-Assisted-Fraud

  

  Darwinium, a provider of cybersecurity software, has rolled out two new modules aimed at enhancing its digital-security and fraud-prevention platform. The modules detect criminals’ use of malicious AI agents to bypass a business’s fraud prevention defenses. The two new modules, called Beagle and Copilot, simulate malicious AI-based attacks to distinguish …
• 29 July

  PayPal Hails a Gambit Aimed at Avoiding Wallet Confusion

  

  PayPal Holdings Inc.’s latest wallet initiative, PayPal World, will go live this fall and aims to reach more than 2 billion consumers, the company’s chief executive said early Tuesday. Alex Chriss followed up on an earlier announcement of the initiative by stressing how the venture will tie together five of …
• 28 July

  PayNearMe Shares a Lane With a Software Firm Catering to Auto Dealers and Lenders

  

  Furthering its penetration into the transportation sector, PayNearMe Inc., a fintech that enables paying for online transactions with cash and other payment methods, on Monday said it has integrated its payments system with a business platform from Emotive Software Inc. for automobile dealers and independent lenders. The Emotive deal comes …
• 28 July

  Card 91’s AI Gambit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/28/25

  

  Card91, a payments-software platform based in India, announced merchant onboarding and verification technology based on artificial intelligence and aimed at banks and payment aggregators. FreedomPay’s gateway will support e-commerce and in-store payments for restaurants as part of an agreement with Deliverect, a provider of commerce technology for fast-food chains, including Taco …
• 25 July

  Fiserv Faces a Suit Over Claims It Misled Investors on a Merchant Migration to Clover

  

  Payment processor Fiserv Inc. faces a lawsuit over allegations it misled investors over how it handled migrating merchants to Clover from its now retired Payeezy payment gateway, according to Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, the New York City-based law firm representing the plaintiff, the City of Hollywood Police Officers’ Retirement System …
• 25 July

  Corpay’s Working Capital Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/25/25

  

  Corporate card issuer Corpay announced it is selling off a fuel-card portfolio in a deal it says will bring in $60 million and free up $35 million in working capital, funds the company says will aid its $2.2 billion acquisition of Alpha Group International plc., a United Kingdom-based banking company. Pumpkin Insurance …
• 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 …