Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
Fiserv CEO Says Divided Structure Left Products Underused
September 14, 2026

Fiserv aims to tap several growth opportunities by bringing together the capabilities of its Financial Solutions (FS) and Merchant Solutions (MS) segments, which have operated separately, and operating as one company, Fiserv CEO Takis Georgakopoulos said Thursday (Sept. 10). Speaking at the Goldman Sachs 2026...

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Cash App Pilots No-Fee Business Tools for Sole Proprietors
September 10, 2026

Cash App is piloting a new experience that helps eligible sole proprietors accept peer-to-peer payments and manage their earnings in their personal Cash App account, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. This experience does not require a separate business account and...

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Lawmakers Test the Rules for AI Agents That Move Money
September 03, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents, stablecoins and tokenized securities put some of the mechanics of digital finance before lawmakers Wednesday (Sept. 2), including how software-driven transactions will be authorized and settled. At a House Financial Services Committee hearing that ranged across tech-driven innovation’s role against a...

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The G20 Is Coming for Stablecoins’ Best Cross-Border Sales Pitch
September 02, 2026

Stablecoins have pinned their corporate finance hopes on a straightforward proposition: better cross-border B2B payments. Traditional cross-border payments are constrained by banking hours, fragmented data and layers of intermediaries. Digital dollars, by contrast, can move continuously across programmable networks. But the future of that sales...

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Jackson Hole and G20 Map a Future of 24/7 Payments and AI
September 01, 2026

A financial market that trades around the clock can’t wait until the next banking day to settle. A business selling digital services overseas has a different problem: the product can cross the border more easily than the payment. Both issues surfaced last week at the...

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Why Merchants Get Better Results When Their Payment Systems Work Together
September 01, 2026

Adding payment processors is relatively easy. Getting substantially better payment performance from the resulting network appears to be much harder. That distinction stands out in “Connecting What’s Next: Open Infrastructure for the Future of Commerce,” the August/September 2026 edition of the Optimizing Payments Tracker® Series...

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TD Touts Successful Tokenized Payments With Project Agorá
August 31, 2026

TD says it has successfully completed a tokenized payments test on the Project Agorá platform. The test case involved carrying out a tokenized payment between TD New York Branch (TD Securities LLC) and TD Bank, N.A., in partnership with Bank of New York (BNY), the bank announced Monday (Aug. 31). “The transaction...

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SoFi Tech Solutions’ New President Is Building the AWS of Finance
August 31, 2026

Watch more: Monday Conversation With SoFi’s Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore Former Visa executive Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore is three months into her new role as president of SoFi Technology Solutions. The premise guiding her strategy is that banks, credit unions and software platforms each know their customers in different...

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WEX Says Faster Payments Need Smarter Brakes
August 27, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With WEX’s Ron Griswold The linear model of traditional business payments is breaking apart thanks to embedded payments, instant rails and artificial intelligence (AI). “Payments went from being just a line on a P&L [profit and loss statement] to...