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Fi911, a provider of chargeback prevention and risk management, launched ResolveLab, a service it says is aimed at resellers and payment facilitators looking to block chargebacks and control risk. Okta Inc., a provider of identity technology, reported third-quarter revenue of $742 million, up 12% from the same time last year. …
December, 2025
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2 December
Block Notes 10% BFCM Uptick and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/2/25
Black Friday through Cyber Monday shopping generated a 10% rise year-over-year for Block Inc.’s Square, Cash App, and Afterpay payments properties, to 124 million transactions, the company reported. Payments processor Nuvei Corp. announced it is expanding a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to enable its core payment processing APIs to run on Microsoft Axure and use Azure AI to …
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1 December
Klarna Black Friday Volume up 45% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/1/25
Klarna AB said its U.S. processing volume across all product categories was up a record 45% for November through Black Friday. Absolute figures were not immediately available. Black Friday sales data from Accertify Inc. indicate consumers spent $115.46 per transaction on average, down 17% from last year, while initiating 52.5 million transactions, up …
November, 2025
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26 November
The ‘Pressing Concern’ of Fraud and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/26/25
Fraud and scams have grown into a “pressing concern” for users of digital payments in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to a regional survey report released by Mastercard Inc. The research effort queried 3,577 adults in 12 countries in October. Mastercard has launched Mastercard Access Pass, aimed at allowing card issuers to …
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24 November
U.S. Payments Modernization Is Taking a Toll on Cash
The combined effect of five payments trends is chipping away at cash reliance, finds a new report from Deloitte. Increasing adoption of stablecoin payments, especially for cross-border payments, increased speed of transactions, using data standards to one’s advantage, agentic artificial-intelligence commerce, and employing AI to counter fraud are all shaping …
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19 November
PayPal’s Liverpool Pitch Pays Off and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/19/25
PayPal Holdings Inc. said it is an official digital payments partner with U.K.-based soccer club Liverpool FC. Already an option in the club’s digital payments platforms, PayPal will be featured more prominently on checkout and payment screens in the club’s e-commerce and All Red services. All Red is a membership program …
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17 November
PhotonPay Is the Latest to Join Circle’s New Arc Blockchain
PhotonPay announced over the weekend it has joined Circle Internet Financial’s fledgling Arc blockchain, representing the latest participant for Arc since Circle unveiled the network in August. Hong Kong-based PhotonPay, which in July became a Mastercard commercial card issuer, also supports Mastercard users of Google Pay to enable contactless payments …
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14 November
New Gen’s Agentic Commerce Platform Launches and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/14/25
E-commerce technology company New Generation released Kepler, an agentic commerce platform for retailers. Kepler has a suite of tools to help merchants structure, analyze, and present their product data in formats that both humans and artificial intelligence engines can understand, New Gen said. The Pix real-time payments network in Brazil is likely to surpass …
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13 November
FedNow Limit Bumped to $10 Million and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/13/25
The Federal Reserve announced its FedNow real-time payments network has raised its transaction limit to $10 million from $1 million. The tenfold increase is expected to enable more transactions for such usages as corporate treasury and payroll, vendor payments, and real-estate transactions. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a release saying it may not …
