News

January, 2026

• 28 January

  Zelle Beefs Up Access to CUs and Community Banks, Adds More Resellers

  

  Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by Early Warning Services LLC, announced late Tuesday 337 financial institutions joined the network in 2025. The majority of the institutions are community banks and credit unions with assets of less than $10 billion. The influx of new financial institutions gives Zelle access to …
• 28 January

  Elavon Launches a New Tool to Help Businesses Collect Payments

  

  Elavon Live Payments is a new payments app for Microsoft 365 users that acquirer Elavon says it designed to make it easier for businesses to collect online payments. Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based productivity suite that includes Outlook, an email app. Elavon Live Payments enables users to send invoices via …
• 27 January

  Crypto Is Moving Into the Payments Mainstream, a New Study Finds

  

  Merchants and consumers are embracing cryptocurrency as a mainstream payments option, according to a study from the National Cryptocurrency Association and PayPal Holdings Inc. Some 39% of merchants surveyed accept cryptocurrency at checkout, while 84% believe crypto payments will become common in the next five years, the study says. A …
• 27 January

  As Gateways Become More Vital, TSG Issues its Rankings

  

  The value of payment gateways for merchants, independent sales organizations, and processors has only grown in recent years. Now, as the tangible benefit of a gateway migrates from operational stability to aiding better business outcomes, their importance has grown. To help payments companies navigate the gateway segment, TSG, an Omaha, …
• 27 January

  Nuvei Teams with Wex and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/27/26

  

  Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said it will offer virtual card technology from WEX Inc. to its merchant base under a new agreement. Forter Inc., a developer of anti-fraud technology, said it will offer fraud prevention and identity technology to the McDonald’s Corp. for transactions conducted digitally with the hamburger chain. Mastercard Inc. announced …
• 26 January

  North’s Merchant Management API: CRM‑Level Control for Modern Payments Partners

  

  North’s Merchant Management API gives Wholesale ISOs, Full Service Providers (FSPs), and Payment Facilitators deep, It is designed for partners that own risk, manage underwriting, and want to differentiate themselves with custom tools and portals for both internal teams and merchants. What the Merchant Management API does At its core, …
• 26 January

  Fiserv And Affirm Will Offer BNPL to Debit Card holders

  

  Affirm Holdings Inc. early Monday widened banks’ access to its buy now, pay later loan programs for debit card holders through a deal with Fiserv Inc. The deal will enable banks on the Fiserv network to integrate Affirm’s pay-over-time solution into their debit card programs via their digital-banking and mobile-app …
• 26 January

  PAR Tech Beefs up Its Stake in Hospitality With a Deal for Bridg

  

  Hospitality-payments specialist PAR Technology Corp. announced it will acquire Bridg Inc., a provider of identity technology and shopper data, from Cardlytics Inc. for $27.5 million, payable in shares of PAR common stock. Cardlytics agreed to pay $350 million in cash to acquire Bridg in 2021. The deal, which the parties …
• 26 January

  Another CCCA Avenue? and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/26/26

  

  The Merchants Payments Coalition released a letter from it and 350 merchant groups in support of the Credit Card Competition Act urging that the bill be attached to a proposed cryptocurrency marketplace structure legislation. The measure is expected to be discussed Tuesday by the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee. The New England Automated …
• 23 January

  Equifax Launches AI-based Synthetic Identity Fraud Detection as Companies Turn to AI  

  

  Equifax Inc. early Friday launched an application to identify synthetic identity fraud. The app, known as Synthetic Identity Risk, uses artificial intelligence to analyze identity data, credit histories, and behavioral signals to determine whether an account belongs to a synthetic identity. Synthetic identities, which criminals use to open credit card …