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Visa and Mastercard have been granted permission to challenge a major UK ruling that found aspects of their fee structures breached competition law, marking a significant development in a long-running ...

The London Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday (March 17) that Mastercard and Visa can challenge last year’s judgment that they breached competition law with their multilateral interchange fees, Reuters reported ...

Visa has launched Visa Agentic Ready, a program that gives banks a structured way to test payments made by AI agents on behalf of consumers. Announced in a Tuesday (March ...

There’s a fundamental flaw in how many observers view the stablecoin boom. There’s an assumption that the ability of stablecoins to improve settlement is equivalent to replacing the payments experience. The ...

Mastercard announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, marking a significant step in the company’s efforts to expand into ...

Visa has expanded its partnership with payments and financial technology provider Fiserv. The collaboration, announced in a news release Monday (March 16), introduces what Visa calls a “unified, API driven acceptance layer” aimed at simplifying ...

The war in Iran is increasingly giving the freight sector a fright. As of Monday (March 16), the geopolitical risks of the Middle East engagement have already reshaped global trade patterns around air ...

Watch more: Visa Protect With Visa’s Michele Herron Check fraud has gained prominence as a measurable source of losses for financial institutions, businesses and consumers. Even as digital payment adoption accelerates, ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paymentology’s Tim Joslyn The “I” in “AI” doesn’t always just stand for intelligence. Increasingly, across the security sector, it can also stand for “Identity.” ...

An attempt to secure Senate passage for the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) by attaching it as an amendment to a bipartisan housing bill failed, the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) ...

Watch more: Need to Know With North’s Suril Patel When merchants viewed payments solely through the lens of cost, they typically looked for as little cost as possible. But that one-dimensional calculus ...

Banks in the U.K. are reportedly working to create their alternative to Visa and Mastercard. Executives from the country’s banking giants will meet this week on the project, driven by fears ...

Visa formed a new sub-region that includes Egypt, Libya and Sudan, saying the move will advance its strategic growth plans in the wider North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. The new ...

Latin America’s digital habits are no longer confined to retail shopping or person-to-person transfers. They are directly influencing how smaller firms  invoice, get paid, stock shelves and bridge payroll gaps. PYMNTS ...

This edition of “The Prompt Economy™ Tracker®” examines how tokenization is emerging as the foundational trust layer for agentic AI and the next generation of digital commerce. Through the narrative persona of ...

Adaptability is a key competitive advantage in the evolving payments industry, Paysafe CEO Bruce Lowthers writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Looking back at the ...

B2B payments innovation tends to scale in lockstep with supplier acceptance. For years, that dynamic slowed the progress of corporate back offices. Buyers were reluctant to push new payment methods if ...

Visa now enables its Visa Acceptance Platform clients to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone. The company introduced a software development kit (SDK) that allows payment service providers (PSPs), independent software ...

Even as policymakers continue to refine the rules of the road for stablecoins, earnings season offered a clearer view of how the payment networks are already moving from concept to ...

Global crypto card payment volume reached $1.5 billion per month in August, up from about $100 million per month in January 2023, Artemis said in a report released Thursday (Jan. 15). These ...

The London Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday (March 17) that Mastercard and Visa can challenge last year’s judgment that they breached competition law with their multilateral interchange fees, Reuters reported ...

An attempt to secure Senate passage for the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) by attaching it as an amendment to a bipartisan housing bill failed, the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) ...

Capital One has started originating some of its credit card accounts on the Discover Network, about 10 months after finalizing its acquisition of the network. A guide to card benefits issued by the company ...

Revolut debuted its first “ultra-premium” corporate card for customers in the United Kingdom, according to a Tuesday (March 3) press release. The company’s Titan card is designed to address concerns among ...

Merchant surcharges are in the news as retailers, large and small, look for extra revenue and consumers rail against their existence. “Over the past few months, it feels like almost every ...

For decades, loyalty followed a familiar rhythm: Consumers earned points on credit card purchases and redeemed them later, often after months of accumulation. That structure still exists, but it no longer ...

U.S. Bank has introduced a Visa-backed credit card designed for small business owners. The U.S. Bank Business Shield Visa Card, announced Monday (Feb. 2) in a news release provided to PYMNTS. ...

Visa, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are among the companies that will support Trump Accounts. Set to be launched this year, Trump Accounts will be tax-advantaged investment accounts for U.S. ...

The perceptions and realities of rewards programs are changing as consumers redefine what good loyalty looks like. Simple loyalty mechanics are no longer enough. Rewards must be meaningful, contextual and delivered ...

Capital One’s acquisition of Brex, announced Thursday (Jan. 22), signals that the economics and mechanics of commercial card issuance are changing. As commercial cards move beyond travel and entertainment into core ...

Adaptability is a key competitive advantage in the evolving payments industry, Paysafe CEO Bruce Lowthers writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Looking back at the ...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to anchor daily commerce across much of the globe. Visa’s 2026 outlook highlighted just how large that footprint ...

Convenience store and gas station chain Circle K has teamed up with vehicle-based payment technology provider Car IQ to launch a mobile app for fleet operators. The new Circle K Pro ...

Watch more: Acquirers and Payment Infrastructure — Powering the Mobile-First Future Acquirers must future-proof their operations in an increasingly mobile-first world. As Visa Acceptance Solutions Global Sales, Engineering Vice President Pritesh Patel ...

Australia, while a burgeoning mobile-first market, presents a paradox for financial institutions, FinTech innovators and payment providers. In the Land Down Under, there’s a population eager for digital convenience, particularly one-click ...

Singapore is among the nations most visibly moving toward mobile-first shopping. In the “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: Singapore Edition,” released by PYMNTS Intelligence and commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, a ...

To thrive in today’s fragmented retail landscape, small and medium-sized businesses must close the digital divide and embrace unified commerce strategies. It’s a good summary of PYMNTS’ new 2025 Global Digital ...

Samsung Wallet in the U.S. now simplifies peer-to-peer (P2P) payments with the help of Visa Tap technology and the Visa Direct money movement solution. With the launch of this Samsung Tap to Transfer, ...

Visa launched Visa Commercial Integrated Partners, a program to help businesses embed payments into their products and platforms. The program is designed to cover companies ranging from ERP platforms that streamline ...

Brazilian consumers are rapidly adopting mobile devices for retail purchases, outpacing global trends, though pervasive payment friction presents a significant hurdle for merchants, according to the 2025 Global Digital Shopping ...