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Visa Inc. has taken steps to make smart phones a more readily available way for merchants, especially micro-size ones, to digitally accept payments with updates to Visa Pay, Visa Accept, and Visa Direct. With Visa Accept, announced in April 2025, Visa makes it easier for these small sellers to get …
June, 2026
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30 June
How Payment Friction Puts a Damper on Travel As Summer Sets in
The summer travel season has arrived, promising big volume uplifts for payments processors. But wonky payments, checkout letdowns, and fraud fears could lead to less volume than travel companies expect, according to a pair of travel reports released Tuesday. So far, demand looks strong. Some 91% of consumers are planning …
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29 June
The healthcare payments industry has a perception problem
The real threat to healthcare ISOs isn’t competition; it’s irrelevance Lisa Brooks, Vice President, Healthcare Partnerships For years, merchant service providers (MSPs) and ISOs have approached healthcare as just another vertical. There’s a bit more compliance, a few integrations, and maybe a longer sales cycle. But beneath the surface, something …
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29 June
Sherwin-Williams Adds Square for its Pro+ Members
Contractors enrolled in the Sherwin-Williams Pro+ service now have access to Square’s business management, invoicing, and payment-acceptance services via the Sherwin-Williams Digital Alliance Program. This program offers professional painters, contractors, and designers in the Pro+ service access to a variety of business tools. Square is the latest addition. Others include …
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29 June
A Survey Shows a Need to Bolster Trust in Agentic Commerce
No sooner has agentic commerce entered the domain of digital payments than questions have sprung up regarding issues of trust and identity. The trust issue in particular came to the fore early Monday with survey results indicating that just 19% of adult consumers in the U.K. trust that AI agents …
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29 June
DLocal Added to Russell Index and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/29/26
DLocal Ltd., an international provider of payments technology, has been added to the U.S. small-cap Russell 2000 Index. In the U.S. market, the company links local merchants to markets in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Banking platform Personetics said its AI-enabled platform is now integrated with Fiserv Inc.’s Experience Digital platform for …
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26 June
Fraud Costs $5.13 for Every $1 in Loss, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Finds
Merchants wrestle with fraud every day, lamenting how much is lost in each bad transaction. LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as it’s done for a number of years, has quantified the actual cost beyond the item’s value. In 2026, the total cost of every $1 in fraud is $5.13 in the United …
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26 June
Tech Firms Begin to Tackle the AI Fraud Question
The growing prominence of agentic commerce has raised questions about the potential for fraud in these transactions, and in particular the problem of verifying who is behind the agents. Now, technology is emerging to address that question. In one example, Boston-based Notarize Inc., which does business as Proof, introduced on …
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26 June
Jack Henry Taps Google Cloud to Help FIs and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/26/26
Processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said it will work with Google Cloud to introduce an AI-based security service for financial institutions to enable faster issue resolution and support routine operations. Elon Musk’s X social-media platform has started to roll out the X Money payment service to more users to elicit feedback and correct …
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25 June
Square Lands a Touch of Paris with Ladurée Canada Conversion
Square, the point-of-sale and acquiring arm of Block Inc., is ready for a sweet treat with Ladurée Canada’s decision to use Square for all of its POS operations at each of its Canadian locations. The pastry shop had been using a different system for its retail locations than for its …
