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As embedded services take on added importance in payments and banking, financial institutions are adding the products at a faster clip, presenting payments processors with new business opportunities. On Thursday, the processor FIS launched FIS Embedded Banking Platform, which it says is its first embedded-finance platform designed for banks. With …
September, 2026
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4 September
COMMENTARY: Stablecoins Are Moving From Crypto Debate to Payments Use Case
For decades, payments progress has been measured by how much friction disappears between initiation and transaction. Checks and cash gave way to credit cards. Credit cards gave way to digital wallets. And now, stablecoins are emerging as a new payments rail, with the potential to change how businesses move and …
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4 September
Motorola’s Watch And Wallet and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/4/26
Motorola launched its moto watch ultra, the latest version in its line of moto watches. The device includes Google Wallet and NFC capability for payments, among other features. MassPay, a platform enabling businesses to send money to 180 countries, launched MassPay Collect, which allows businesses to receive funds in stablecoins. Diameter …
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3 September
FedNow Eyes Expansion with Upcoming Discount Program
Financial institutions pondering how FedNow, the real-time payment service from the Federal Reserve, might fit into their product sets will have a new incentive to factor in when the FedNow discount program begins Jan. 1. Eligible FIs could receive a minimum of a $5,000 discount when enabling FedNow receive capabilities. …
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3 September
Fiserv’s Small Business Index Stays Flat in August
U.S. small businesses registered a mixed performance in August, with dollar volume climbing but transactions dropping for the tenth straight month, according to the August Small Business Index released early Thursday by the payments processor Fiserv Inc. It all added up to a Small Business Index reading of 145, flat …
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3 September
Shopline’s Splitit Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/3/26
Shopline, a commerce platform, has agreed to integrate card-linked installment payments capability from Splitit. Finzly, a money-movement platform operating on ACH and real-time rails, has launched Assure, a service intended to protect banks against attacks by rogue AI agents. The new service is part of Finzly’s Agentic Galaxy set of AI …
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2 September
Building a successful payments strategy: How ISOs and ISVs can drive scalable growth together
The future is not ISOs versus ISVs. It’s ISOs and ISVs working together. By: Josh Bennett, Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon The payments industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by innovations such as agentic commerce, instant payments, and embedded financial services. …
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2 September
Eye on Block: Cash App Score Gains Visibility; Bakery Consolidates Under Square
Block Inc. will make its proprietary Cash App Score available to external lenders for the first time, while its Square acquiring unit lines up another retailer for its suite of point-of-sale services and hardware. A scoring model once only used internally by Block for its set of lending products now …
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2 September
OpenPayd Prepares for a U.S. Launch As Big Banks Plan for a Dollar Stablecoin
OpenPayd, a London-based provider of open-banking and stablecoin services, announced an expansion into the U.S. market, having acquired 43 state money-transfer licenses. Globally, the company processes more than $300 billion in volume yearly for more than 1,200 businesses. The announcement comes following OpenPayd’s integration this month of MSB USA Inc., …
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2 September
Housecall Pro Picks Yeeld and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/2/26
Surcharging provider Yeeld said it is working with Housecall Pro, a platform supporting home-service professionals, to enable surcharging on credit card payments. CheckAlt said it will provide payment processing to LoanPro, a lending platform, to handle both paper-check and online-banking payments from LoanPro customers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it will support ticketless entry and …
