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Caution among consumers when it comes to spending has led more than half of them to favor debit cards for purchases by a wide margin over credit cards, while a significant percentage want control over when their bills are paid, according to the latest ACI Speedpay Pulse Report from the …
September, 2026
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18 September
Quill Bank’s Acquiring Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/18/26
Quill Bank announced it has launched its Acquiring Line of Business unit to serve payment facilitators, ISOs, ISVs, and fintechs, and has named payments veteran Deborah Camm senior vice president and head of acquiring. Alchemy, a technology developer for agentic commerce and onchain transactions, announced an integration with Mastercard Agent Pay …
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17 September
Bottomline Sees Its Global Pay Connect Setting the Stage for Future Payments
Bottomline Technologies Inc. early Thursday unveiled Global Pay Connect, a platform aimed at easing real-time payments adoption for banks through APIs. The move comes as the company’s research indicates 40% of chief financial officers at banks name outdated technology as the biggest obstacle to real-time payment adoption. “Financial institutions are …
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17 September
Square Doubles Down on Its Renewed Interest in ISOs as a Sales Channel
Square is making a big play for independent sales organizations, a merchant-sales model it shunned 16 years ago in favor of direct acquiring. Square, the point-of-sale and acquiring unit of Block Inc., is one of the sponsors of the Western States Acquirers Association conference this week in Palm Desert, Calif. …
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17 September
Input 1 Links with OneShield and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/17/26
Digital-payments platform Input 1 will work with OneShield, a technology provider for the insurance industry, to allow insurance companies to use Input 1 as an integrated service with OneShield. Guesty, a management platform for short-term rentals, announced it has closed on its acquisition of Smily, a developer of property-management technology. Both systems …
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15 September
Eye on POS: Kwik Fill Picks PAR; TNS Eyes Unattended Payments with UCP
Convenience-store chain Kwik Fill, with more than 300 locations in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, will use PAR Technology Corp.’s PAR Retail service for payments, loyalty, and a mobile app. In related news, Transaction Network Services Inc., or TNS, says a new partnership with Unattended Card Payments will boost its …
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15 September
Pidgin’s Instant CU Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/15/26
Instant payments platform Pidgin said it is working with Millennium Corporate Credit Union, which provides services to other credit unions, to enable nearly 300 credit unions working with Millennium to use instant payments services, such as FedNow, RTP, and stablecoin access. Bread Financial announced a long-term renewal of its credit card program with …
