
Weighing the Profitability of High-Risk Merchants in a Risk-Wary Climate
High-risk merchants can offer generous profit margins, but those returns must be weighed against the risks they bring. That balancing ...

Mastercard And Open Banking and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/11/25
Mastercard Inc. and Paytently, a payments-orchestration platform, announced they have collaborated on an open-banking initiative that will leverage Mastercard systems to ...

FedNow Announces a $10 Million Transaction Limit, Set for November
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it will raise the transaction limit on FedNow transactions tenfold, to $10 million, effective in ...

The Cost of Scams And Fraud Tops $5 for Each Dollar of Loss
Financial-services organizations have long held a sobering view of the cost of scams and fraud. Now, the cost of these ...

Global’s Genius in the UK and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/10/25
Global Payments Inc. announced it has launched its Genius processing platform in the United Kingdom, starting with quick-service and fast-casual restaurants. Genius ...

As BNPL Rises in Popularity, Consumers Are Missing Payments; Zip Partners with Gift Platform Nift
Some 76% of consumers in the United States have taken out buy now, pay later loans, but 49% have missed ...

COMMENTARY: How the GENIUS Act Is a Quiet Revolution in Crypto
For years, critics and evangelists alike have obsessed over crypto’s headlines, its volatility, its philosophy, its personalities. But the GENIUS ...

PAR Technology’s PAR AI and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/9/25
Restaurant payments-technology developer PAR Technology Corp. launched PAR AI as part of its product line, along with Coach AI, intended to be ...