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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. …
September, 2026
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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 The move comes as the company’s research indicates 40% of chief financial officers at banks name outdated technology as the biggest obstacle to real-time payment adoption.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 …
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16 September
Research Says Mobile Numbers Have Morphed Into Multi-Use Verification Credentials
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. …
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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 …
