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Mobile telephone numbers are evolving into much more than communication endpoints. They’re rapidly becoming verification tools, especially for online financial services, according to newly released research. The findings come from MobileSphere LLC, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of mobile-communication services, including Slynumber, which provides customers with an app-based, globally useful U.S. …
September, 2026
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16 September
An ACI Survey Indicates Some Hesitation About Agentic Payments
As shopping and commerce gear up for an online horde of AI agents equipped to seek out and buy products, doubts are starting to emerge regarding how much discretion should be extended to those bits of code. In the latest development, research emerged early Wednesday indicating consumers using AI agents …
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16 September
A Mobile App for Water Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/16/26
American Water, said to be the largest regulated water and wastewater utility in the U.S., has adopted VXconnect from software developer VertexOne. VXconnect offers a mobile app by which customers can manage payments. Toast announced it has signed Kung Fu Tea for point-of-sale payments processing and related technology. Kung Fu Tea operates 330 …
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15 September
Eye on POS: Kwik Fill Picks PAR; TNS Eyes Unattended Payments with UCP
Convenience-store chain Kwik Fill, with more than 300 locations in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, will use PAR Technology Corp.’s PAR Retail service for payments, loyalty, and a mobile app. In related news, Transaction Network Services Inc., or TNS, says a new partnership with Unattended Card Payments will boost its …
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15 September
Pidgin’s Instant CU Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/15/26
Instant payments platform Pidgin said it is working with Millennium Corporate Credit Union, which provides services to other credit unions, to enable nearly 300 credit unions working with Millennium to use instant payments services, such as FedNow, RTP, and stablecoin access. Bread Financial announced a long-term renewal of its credit card program with …
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14 September
Digital ‘Frankenstein’ Identities Saturate The Dark Web
In an ideal world, a report about the low costs of personally identifiable data that can be stitched together to create a synthetic identity, a proverbial Frankenstein, would be nonexistent. That’s not the world today, however. A new report from Coveron, an identity-theft protection service, outlines how cheap it is …
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14 September
Talus’s ReadyPoint Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/14/26
Payments processor Talus launched ReadyPoint, an offering that allows merchants to accept payments on mobile phones through softPOS tap-to-pay technology from Ingenico. A new report from Visa Inc., called “The Great Indoors: How the ‘Couch Economy’ Is Redefining Consumer Spending Habits,” found that more than 17% of payment cards are used for streaming …
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11 September
Cash App Is Testing Peer-to-Peer Business Payments For Very Small Merchants
Sole proprietors on the Cash App platform may have a way to accept payments from consumers who also have Cash App accounts. Cash App, a part of Block Inc., says a test of Cash App-funded payments to a sole proprietor with a Cash App account is under way now. It …
