Visa Inc. (NYSE: V)

Visa and ICBA Payments, a subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), have renewed their 40-year partnership and plan to expand it by providing community banks with streamlined ...

Estée Lauder is reportedly embarking on a new online retail push to reinvigorate slumping sales. That’s according to a report Wednesday (July 16) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which includes an interview with ...

Shopify has reportedly introduced rules governing merchants’ use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI). As Modern Retail reported Monday (July 14), the eCommerce platform has begun including a warning in the code powering merchant storefronts, ...

O’Melveny has announced the appointment of Vanessa Turner, a figure in international antitrust law, as a partner in its Brussels office. Turner joins the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice Group, ...

Apple has signed a $500 million contract with MP Materials to secure a long-term supply of rare earth magnets. The deal, reported by Reuters, represents a major shift in U.S. ...

Watch more: Visa and Featurespace Tackle Deepfakes as Fraud Fight Turns Predictive In today’s war against financial fraud, the battlefield is evolving faster than ever, as artificial intelligence (AI) fuels both ...

Skyfire has launched Agent Checkout, a new protocol that gives artificial intelligence (AI) agents the power to navigate the digital economy on their own — including signing up for accounts, ...

Most of the CE 100 Index components traded lower this past week, sending the overall index 1.9% lower as seven of the 11 pillars lost ground, ahead of the earnings ...

Surveillance pricing, or personalized pricing, is based on what a seller knows about a potential buyer. Thus, it is based on personal information used to customize pricing and maximize revenue. ...

In March, the White House handed down an executive order mandating that the federal government will stop issuing paper checks for disbursements, effective Sept. 30, and will stop accepting them ...

Watch more: Latin America’s Digital Wallet Surge Forces Banks to Expand Financial Inclusion Latin America, long perceived as a region where cash was king and financial innovation moved at a deliberate ...

B2B companies want a simple, secure, consumer-like digital payments experience, Greg Castro, president of PayTrace by North, writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.”   PayTrace ...

Brazil has become a global leader in mobile shopping adoption, with its consumers consistently demonstrating high engagement in digital commerce activities. The 2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil edition, commissioned ...

X’s CEO says the social media platform will “soon” offer an investment/trading option. “You’ll be able to come to X and be able to transact your whole financial life on the ...

Syria has reportedly made its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT system since 2011. As Reuters noted in its report Thursday (June 19), that was the year the country’s civil ...

Whoever owns the rails of digital payments might just own the next phase of commerce. Stablecoins, once dismissed as niche instruments for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, could be poised to mature into legitimate ...

PayPal is doubling down on artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven personalization to maintain its competitive edge in the changing digital payments landscape, according to Diego Scotti, general manager of PayPal’s ...

Beyond the headlines on tariffs, trade and their macroeconomic implications, the back and forth about exports and imports highlights the importance of smooth fund flows across supply chains. Banks and FinTechs ...

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, ...

Canadian FinTech company Nuvei has joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and plans to enable eCommerce businesses to accept EPI’s digital wallet, Wero, in their online checkouts. Nuvei will begin pilot programs this month and expects ...

For card issuers seeking to modernize and digitize, there’s a strong preference to have a go-to provider as a single point of access for critical functions, PYMNTS Intelligence data show. As ...

Watch more: Federal Deadline Approaches as Agencies Struggle to Move Beyond ACH Payments A looming Sept. 30 deadline set by an executive order to digitize federal government disbursements, a move affecting ...

PYMNTS Intelligence has long tracked the rise of the Click-and-Mortar™ shopper, the tech-savvy individual who traverses eCommerce and in-store shopping armed with mobile devices. The blurring of channel lines has ...

The card issuing sector doesn’t just rely on convenience and security. Customer lifetime value (CLTV) is the space’s currency. However, that currency is in the middle of a paradigm shift. The PYMNTS ...

The debate over regulation of the credit card industry will likely linger no matter what the fate of the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) might be.  For a while, it looked ...

LemFi has acquired Pillar to support its development of specialized credit services and cards to designed specifically for immigrants, starting with those in the U.K. This acquisition adds Pillar’s proprietary credit ...

It would be understandable to ascribe certain characteristics to the best-in-class issuers. The PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa DPS report “The Best-In-Class Modern Card Issuer: Driving Customer Lifetime Value Through Innovation” surveyed ...

At the core of any firm’s success is customer lifetime value (CLTV), defined for issuers as the total revenue a cardholder generates over their entire relationship with an issuer. In surveying ...

Hong Kong-based digital bank ZA Bank has become the first card-issuing bank to enable Visa Click to Pay in Hong Kong and will do the same in 11 more Asia-Pacific ...

As the competitive landscape of card issuing becomes more complex, issuers face rising pressure to maximize customer lifetime value (CLTV), streamline operations and deliver flexible, responsive service models. What sets ...

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 ...

In the current environment, no matter what the country, consumers are keenly aware of the pressures of inflation, of how far their spending can stretch, and where they may have ...

The mobile device has become the center of commerce — not just online, but in-store — and using digital payments across those devices has become part of the commerce landscape. However, ...

The mobile phone’s increasing penetration into global markets is helping blur the lines between telecom and financial services, where digital banks, and especially neobanks, are moving into communications and mobile ...

The rise of the click-and-mortar shopper, with mobile devices as the key conduit to commerce no matter the channel, has given clues to what consumers expect from their merchants online ...

Visa will soon add tokenization and custom provisioning for mobile transactions to its Fleet cards, enabling issuers and FinTechs to integrate encrypted and tokenized card information into Apple Pay mobile ...

Visa teamed with Dubai-based bank Emirates NBD to launch a commercial payment solution. The partnership makes Emirates NBD the first bank in the United Arab Emirates to offer Visa’s Commercial Pay ...