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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 …
September, 2026
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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 The move comes as the company’s research indicates 40% of chief financial officers at banks name outdated technology as the biggest obstacle to real-time payment adoption.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 …
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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 …
