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Just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season, merchants are ready with new e-commerce checkout options. A hardware cooperative is adding the buy now, pay later option from Affirm for in-store use. Brands Dearfoams and Baggallini now offer Buy with Prime, the Amazon.com Inc. online checkout service. Oak Brook, …
October, 2025
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1 October
Merrick Relaunches Ollo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/1/25
The credit card issuer Merrick Bank has re-launched its Ollo credit card with a refreshed design and new technology. The card was first issued in 2017 as a product for U.S. consumers facing challenges in obtaining a credit card. Valor PayTech, a 5-year-old provider of point-of-sale technology for merchants, announced it has …
September, 2025
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30 September
OpenAI And Stripe Are the Latest Fintechs to Enable Agentic Commerce
Agentic commerce got a huge boost late Monday as OpenAI, the provider of such artificial-intelligence applications as ChatGPT, launched Instant Checkout, an agentic-commerce protocol developed with Stripe Inc. The Agentic Commerce Protocol is an open standard for AI commerce that enables AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of individuals …
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30 September
Visa Heralds a Pilot for Cross Border Payments Funded by Stablecoins
Visa Inc. announced early Tuesday it will launch a cross-border payments service that will rely on stablecoins to fund transfers. The service, meant ultimately as an improvement on existing transfers that require users to commit capital in advance, will run on the payments company’s Visa Direct real-time payments rails. It …
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30 September
Nuvei’s AI Onboarding Agent and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/30/25
Nuvei Corp. launched its artificial intelligence-enabled Integration Agent. The tool could help merchants and Nuvei’s partners onboard within hours instead of weeks, Nuvei said. Bank of America Corp. announced its AI-based Ask Global Payments Solutions service, which the banking giant says can answer questions within seconds for its 40,000 business clients globally. …
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29 September
Eye on Processors: Worldpay’s All In on Embedded Finance; An Acquisitive Fiserv Strikes Another Deal
Embedded payments and embedded finance have taken on an almost viral adoption within the payments industry, and the latest to tweak their services is processor Worldpay Inc. with its new Embedded Finance Engine. In related news, Fiserv Inc. says it will acquire StoneCastle Cash Management in a bid to better …
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29 September
Corpay Teams With Mastercard on Cross-Border Payments, While PayOS Leverages Mastercard Agent Pay
Corpay Inc., a provider of corporate payment and expense-management technology, has extended its partnership with Mastercard Inc. to enable corporations, small businesses, and financial institutions to make near real-time payments to 22 new markets across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The deal builds on the two …
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29 September
Swift’s Blockchain Addition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/29/25
The international money-transfer system Swift said it plans to add what it calls a “blockchain-based shared ledger” to its technology stack in an effort to process instant cross-border transactions. Some 34 financial institutions from 16 countries are advising Swift on the project. The payments platform Lightspeed Commerce introduced Showroom, a service that provides merchants …
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26 September
Businesses Looking to Revamp Payment Strategies Will Embrace Digital Payments, an AFP Study Says
As the popularity of digital payments increases, more businesses and organizations are looking to revamp their strategies to keep up with the trend, according to the Association for Financial Professionals’ 2025 Digital Payments Survey. Among the businesses and organizations surveyed for the triennial study, 76% expect to update their payments …
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26 September
Eye on Acquiring: Adyen Enlists TSG For Merchant Consult; Valor PayTech Teams with 4LeafLabs
Payment processor Adyen will tap the expertise of analytics and consultancy firm TSG to help its merchants tailor payments applications to their needs. In related news, Valor PayTech is teaming with 4LeafLabs to create what it calls an affordable point-of-sale service for small businesses. Adyen, a Netherlands-based processor initially known …