Visa says it is expanding the agentic payments program it introduced last month. Agentic Ready, which lets banks and payment partners test agent-controlled payments, is being rolled out to Visa clients in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, the company announced in a news release Wednesday (April 29)....
Visa is adding five more blockchains to its global stablecoin settlement pilot, bringing the total number of blockchains it supports to nine. The newly supported blockchains are Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo, the company said in a Wednesday (April 29) press release emailed to...
Visa’s latest earnings Tuesday (April 28) showed a company still getting plenty of lift from card spending while pushing deeper into stablecoins, blockchain and artificial intelligence-driven commerce. CEO Ryan McInerney set the tone early in the call by tying together the durability of the core...
Technology and connectivity have drawn billions of consumers and businesses into the formal financial system, but the shift from access to stability remains uneven and incomplete. Over the past decade, digital credentials, mobile devices and real-time payment rails have altered how money moves and how...
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...
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...
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,”...
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...
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)....