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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 …
September, 2026
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21 September
Priority Announces It Will Go Private in a $1.6 Billion Deal
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 …
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21 September
Corpay Settles with the FTC and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/21/26
In a proposed settlement, the payment platform Corpay Inc. agreed to pay $100 million to the Federal Trade Commission to resolve FTC allegations that the company had used false marketing and unfair billing practices. The proposal is subject to final approval from the FTC after a period of public comment. Payroc World …
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18 September
ACI Research Spotlights a Cautious Consumer
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 …
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18 September
Quill Bank’s Acquiring Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/18/26
Quill Bank announced it has launched its Acquiring Line of Business unit to serve payment facilitators, ISOs, ISVs, and fintechs, and has named payments veteran Deborah Camm senior vice president and head of acquiring. Alchemy, a technology developer for agentic commerce and onchain transactions, announced an integration with Mastercard Agent Pay …
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17 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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17 September
Bottomline Sees Its Global Pay Connect Setting the Stage for Future Payments
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 …
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17 September
Square Doubles Down on Its Renewed Interest in ISOs as a Sales Channel
Square is making a big play for independent sales organizations, a merchant-sales model it shunned 16 years ago in favor of direct acquiring. Square, the point-of-sale and acquiring unit of Block Inc., is one of the sponsors of the Western States Acquirers Association conference this week in Palm Desert, Calif. …
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17 September
Input 1 Links with OneShield and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/17/26
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 …
