Transaction Processing

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 …

With the e-commerce arena weeks away from one of its busiest times of the year, retailers and vendors are readying their checkouts. Sports apparel merchant Fanatics Inc. says Afterpay is its preferred buy now, pay later provider and Landmark Global, which helps merchants with cross-border e-commerce transactions, says its new …

ACI Worldwide Inc. early Tuesday said banks will be able to process payments via tokenized deposits as well as traditional payment methods through its move to add Swift ledger transactions to its ACI Connetic payments hub. The international payments network Swift introduced its blockchain-based ledger last year. The move comes …

InComm Payments said Sam’s Club, a unit of Walmart Inc., will use its InComm Generated Offers service to create personalized digital offers that are authenticated and redeemed in real time at the checkout. Banking services provider Finzly said it received certification for request for payment transactions on the RTP network, an Early Warning …

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 …

An investor group led by Priority Technology Holdings Inc. chairman and chief executive Thomas Priore will take the processor private in a deal valued at $1.6 billion, or $8.05 per share in cash, Priority announced early Monday. The company’s closing share price on Friday was $5.83. The agreement follows a …

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 …

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 …

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 …