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Visa Teams With TikTok on Creator-Focused Debit Card
April 21, 2026

Visa has teamed with TikTok to launch a debit card geared toward U.K.-based content creators. The Creator Card, which Visa calls the first of its kind, is being introduced in response to the U.K.’s fast-growing creator space, the companies said in a Tuesday (April 21) news release. The goal...

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ACH B2B Payments Jump 9.4% as Businesses Abandon Paper Checks
April 20, 2026

Same Day ACH and B2B payments drove ACH Network volume growth in the first quarter. The network saw Same Day ACH payment volume grow 23.6% year over year to reach 403 million in the first quarter, while B2B payment volume rose 9.4% to reach 2.1...

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PayPal Lets Small Businesses Tap Into Brazil’s Pix System
April 13, 2026

PayPal is bringing Brazil’s Pix payment system to its small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. “With Pix now available through PayPal Complete Payments, small businesses can offer Brazil’s most widely used payment method directly at checkout, reducing friction and meeting consumers where they already transact every day,”...

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Pay Later Moves Upstream as Stripe and Cash App Expand Credit
April 08, 2026

Paying over time remains one of the most durable behaviors in commerce.  The delivery systems of paying over time are moving away from simply surfacing those options at checkout, embedding them into the infrastructure that governs how transactions are initiated and completed. PYMNTS Intelligence data...

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Trustly Marks Pay by Bank Milestone With 120-Plus Million Users
April 07, 2026

Pay by Bank provider Trustly says it now has more than 120 million users worldwide.  “Trustly’s rapidly growing user base reflects the increasing adoption of Pay by Bank seen around the world,” the company said in a news release provided to PYMNTS Tuesday (April 7)....

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Mastercard Plans to Connect 500 Million More Underbanked People
April 06, 2026

After helping connect 1 billion people and 65 million small businesses to the digital economy over the past decade, Mastercard has committed to connect another 500 million people and small businesses by 2030. This effort will help provide financial resilience to more of the 2...

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Why Gen Z Uses BNPL and Installments Differently
April 03, 2026

Consumers are no longer choosing how to pay based on habit or loyalty. They are selecting financial tools with a specific outcome in mind at the moment of purchase. That shift is most visible among younger consumers, where paying over time has become less about...

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Cash App Brings Installment Plans to P2P Payments
April 02, 2026

Cash App users can now spread the cost of peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfers over time. With this new feature, eligible Cash App customers can convert P2P money transfers of $25 or more made within the last 30 days into short-term installment plans, pay a transparent...

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Visa Targets Fraud and Friction as Disputes Hit Record
April 01, 2026

Visa has introduced a group of tools aimed at replacing outdated dispute processes. The six new dispute resolution tools, announced Wednesday (April 1) are designed to help merchants and financial institutions shrink administrative costs and cut fraud-related losses amid growing instances of disputed transactions. In...