News

August, 2026

• 28 August

  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. …
• 28 August

  Nearly 44% of Chargebacks Are Labeled Friendly Fraud, Finds a Chargebacks911 Report

  

  First-party fraud, often called friendly fraud, is the bane of online retailers. Chargeback management provider Chargebacks911 says friendly fraud accounts for 43.8% of total chargebacks in its 2026 Field Report. Relying on responses from more than 250 merchants, the report also finds 83.4% of enterprise merchants reported an increase in …
• 28 August

  Affirm and Shopify Expand Shop Pay to Australia, the Pair’s Fourth Market

  

  The installment-payments platform Affirm Holdings Inc. and online commerce service Shopify late Thursday announced they have expanded their 5-year-old collaboration, Shop Pay Installments, to Australia. The service, which lets consumers use the Shop Pay button to check out on e-commerce sites and then pay over time with Affirm, is active …
• 28 August

  PayPal Pursuit Ends and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/28/26

  

  PayPal Holdings Inc.’s shares fell early Friday following news reports late Thursday that Stripe and Advent have abandoned their pursuit of the payments giant. PayPal’s board reportedly spurned the Stripe/Advent offer of $53 billion, or $60.50 per share, as too low. PayPal’s shares were trading at $61.47 at the market’s close Thursday. Some 47% …
• 27 August

  Experian Deploys a ChatGPT Plugin to Help Consumers Find Credit Cards

  

  With nearly 59% of U.S. consumers knowingly using an artificial-intelligence chatbot, according to the Pew Research Center, credit-reporting agency Experian plc is putting its credit card marketplace into AI tool ChatGPT. Announced Thursday, the plugin, available on ChatGPT’s plugin site, lets consumers explore credit card options for various types, such …
• 27 August

  A New Partnership Seeks to Thwart Dark Web Cyber Thieves

  

  Nasdaq Verafin, a developer of fraud-prevention technology, and Q6 Cyber, a supplier of fraud intelligence, have paired to offer a service to financial institutions that the parties say helps identify and respond faster to scam threats on the dark Web as they are developing. The partnership, announced early Thursday, is …
• 27 August

  Visa Updates VVAH Fraud Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/27/26

  

  Visa Inc. announced the latest version of its Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness, which the card network says will help reduce the time between the discovery and resolution of fraud-attack paths. Some resolution times can be cut from weeks to hours, Visa says. Payments-technology company CARD91 launched SpendFlow, a commercial card program it says …
• 26 August

  Block’s Neighborhoods Lands 30,000 More Sellers

  

  Neighborhoods, a service launched by Block Inc. in October to connect its sellers with its Cash App users, has added 30,000 sellers since the end of June. Block, and its Square acquiring unit, intended for Neighborhoods to create a local commerce network for both merchants and consumers. Neighborhoods provides sellers …
• 26 August

  Priority Payments’ Deals for IntelliPay and Tampa Bay Bucs Ticketing

  

  Priority Technology Holdings Inc. announced within a two-day span a processor acquisition and a deal to process ticket payments for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. The Alpharetta, Ga.-based processor said early Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Convenient Payments, which does business as IntelliPay, a privately …
• 26 August

  Miracle Pay’s POS Crypto Plan and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/26/26

  

  Miracle Pay, a provider of payments technology for merchants, said it will work with zerohash, a provider of cryptocurrency technology, to enable stablecoin acceptance at both physical and online merchants. At the point of sale, consumers will use crypto wallets on their phones to fund transactions. A survey of 1,000 consumers …