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New Visa API Tool Updates Payment Infrastructure
March 09, 2026

The Visa Acceptance Platform now enables acquirers to modernize their payment processing through a single API. The capability comes from the newly launched Visa Intelligent Authorization, which is now available to eligible acquirers as part of the Visa Acceptance Platform, Visa said in a Monday...

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Mastercard Unveils Open Standard to Verify AI Agent Transactions
March 05, 2026

Every time an AI agent makes a purchase, three questions hang over the transaction. Did the consumer actually authorize this? Did the agent follow instructions exactly? And if something goes wrong, can anyone prove it? The payments, AI and merchant sectors are all looking for...

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Ripple Payments Expands Digital and Fiat Cross-Border Rails
March 03, 2026

Ripple Payments now allows customers to collect, hold, exchange and payout in both fiat and stablecoins. The platform also enables customers to provision named virtual accounts and wallets, automate collection flows, exchange and settle funds into operational accounts, Ripple said in a Tuesday (March 3) press release. These...

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Asia Pacific CFOs Push Banks to Rethink Working Capital, Study Finds
February 24, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Visa’s Chavi Jafa Nearly half of growth corporates across Asia Pacific, companies with revenues between $50 million and $1 billion, say they don’t use working capital tools. Not because they don’t need them, but because what’s available doesn’t match...

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Paysafe Calls Digital Wallets the New Hub for Payments and Commerce
February 23, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paysafe’s Bob Legters The landscape of payments innovation is one shaped by the tension between the perception of frictionless innovation and the reality of legacy rails. Bob Legters, chief product officer at Paysafe, told PYMNTS during a conversation for...

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eBay Invests in European Pay by Bank Network TrueLayer
February 19, 2026

Online retail platform eBay has invested in TrueLayer as part of a partnership with the Pay by Bank provider. “This milestone follows a year of strong momentum for Pay by Bank across Europe, as merchants increasingly prioritize fast, safe, and flexible payment options that align...

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Payments Orchestration Becomes a Profit Center
February 10, 2026

For many merchants, payments orchestration was long treated as a necessary but largely invisible layer designed to keep transactions moving. That framing no longer fits the reality of modern commerce. As digital sales expand across borders, channels and payment types, the way payments are routed,...

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Mastercard Launches New Program for BIN Sponsor Accreditation
February 10, 2026

Card issuance has become one of the most direct ways for FinTechs to embed themselves into daily commerce. Whether the product is a digital wallet, a payroll card or a specialized spending account, cards remain the practical on-ramp to consumer adoption. Yet most FinTechs do...

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Visa Platform Offers Small Businesses Access to Financing, Marketing and Tech Support
February 05, 2026

Visa has launched a new platform designed to help small business owners access capital, reach customers and adopt modern business tools. The Visa & Main platform will continue adding resources, programming and local activations, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 5) press release emailed...