Visa Inc. (NYSE: V)

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) ...

For chief financial officers and treasurers, working capital is starting to look less like an operating metric and more like an investment decision. What used to be managed mainly as a ...

The B2B procurement experience once meant phone calls, email quotes and weeks of back-and-forth negotiations. The process was often slow, opaque and heavily dependent on relationships. Procurement teams contacted vendors, requested ...

Europe’s biggest economies are pressing the European Union to move faster in strengthening its financial independence, calling for reduced reliance on foreign payment networks and an accelerated rollout of the ...

As software eats the business world, workflows across B2B are becoming data problems for chief financial officers. The shift reflects the broader truth about modern business that, as software eats the ...

Visa and Santander have launched an agentic commerce partnership in Latin America. The companies announced Thursday (March 12) that they had completed a series of pilot agentic commerce transactions in five markets — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, ...

Middle-market firms have been navigating uneven demand, higher borrowing costs and persistent supply-side volatility. According to Visa’s Growth Corporates Working Capital Index 2025 to 2026, done in collaboration with PYMNTS ...

The credit industry has spent decades competing for something consumers were never actually optimizing for. Top of wallet. Issuers built elaborate rewards architectures to win it. Travel points. Cash back ladders. Category ...

Buy now, pay later has been hitting an adoption wall, and could be losing momentum with the critical Gen Z and millennial age groups. The recent holiday shopping season tells a ...

Elon Musk said X Money is set to launch in April. “X Money early public access will launch next month,” Musk said in a Tuesday (March 10) post on X. ? Money early ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trust and security have always underpinned payments, but they have become the decisive factors that determine whether a cardholder continues using a credential or pivots to another. Amid instant decisions and ...

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 ...