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Technology from Stripe Inc. will support transactions for PhotonPay, a Hong Kong-based fintech processing online payments for more than 200,000 businesses globally. According to PhotonPay’s announcement, released early Wednesday, the addition of Stripe’s technology will widen its offering of payment methods as well as reinforce uptime, though the company did …
February, 2026
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4 February
Automotive POS Gains Momentum As UpdatePromise Offers PayPal and Venmo
UpdatePromise, a software provider to automobile dealerships, said Tuesday it has agreed to integrate PayPal and Venmo to offer expanded payments capabilities in the service lane. The move comes as payments technology takes on increasing importance at dealerships looking to avoid snarled transactions while working out details with customers, the …
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4 February
Bolt’s Embedded Investing and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/4/26
Bolt Financial Inc., whose app offers checkout, identity, and payments capabilities, announced it is adding embedded investing capability through a deal with Atomic, an investing-as-a-service platform. Corpay Inc. said it will sell its PayByPhone mobile parking payments platform to Lightyear Capital in a deal expected to close in the second quarter. …
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3 February
COMMENTARY: Use Smarter Merchant Intelligence for Safer Cross-Border Commerce
Even amid tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and international fraud schemes, cross-border commerce continues to grow. While consumers enjoy unprecedented access to a global marketplace, the payments industry behind that experience must navigate a complex, fragmented, and fast-changing regulatory environment. Country-specific regulatory differences are especially challenging for high-risk categories such as drugs, …
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3 February
PayPal Gets a New CEO As It Looks to Sharpen ‘Execution’
PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday announced it has appointed board chairman Enrique Lores president and chief executive, replacing Alex Chriss. Lores moves into his new position after more than six years as CEO at HP Inc. The company also reported December-quarter results in the face of a steep drop in …
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3 February
Visa Direct Enters China and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/3/26
Visa Inc. announced Visa Direct, its near real-time payment service soon will offer cross-border money movement into the Chinese mainland via a partnership with UnionPay International, the Chinese card brand. The Fiserv Small Business Index, which tracks small business transaction activity across the Fiserv Inc. merchant base, declined one point to 143 …
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2 February
Deluxe And Payfinia Enable Paze for ISVs
Chalk up another way for merchants and consumers to use Paze, the digital wallet from Early Warning Services LLC, as a deal between Deluxe Corp. and Payfinia seeks to make it easier for independent software vendors to incorporate Paze into their software apps. Payfinia, formed by Tyfone in 2024 to …
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2 February
QuickBooks Picks Affirm and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/2/26
Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Holdings Inc. will be the exclusive pay-over-time provider integrated with QuickBooks Payments under an agreement announced by QuickBooks provider Intuit Inc. and Affirm. BizTrip AI, whose technology uses AI to help manage payments and other functions in corporate travel, raised $1.5 million in new funding led …
January, 2026
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30 January
It’s CCCA Times Two As Congress Drops an Attachment Effort
Plans to attach an amended version of the Credit Card Competition Act to a cryptocurrency-infrastructure bill were shelved Thursday, effectively leaving two versions of the bill floating around Congress. The CCCA was amended late last week to include a provision that called for enforcement of the CCCA under antitrust law, …