Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
BMO Becomes First Canadian Issuer to Deploy Mastercard Embedded Commercial Payments
October 01, 2026

BMO and Mastercard have launched a new embedded commercial payments capability that can be integrated into participating enterprise software platforms in Canada and the United States, BMO said in a Thursday (Oct. 1) press release. When this capability is enabled in a platform, BMO’s eligible...

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Ebanx Expands Pakistan Footprint and Deepens Emerging-Market Payments Push
September 24, 2026

Ebanx is preparing to expand its payments operations into Pakistan while rolling out an in-house Apple Pay token-decryption system across Latin America and the Caribbean, as the payments company seeks to build infrastructure around local payment methods and emerging digital commerce markets. The company announced...

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Visa and Mastercard Help Moov Launch P2P Payment Solution
September 22, 2026

Moov has announced Moov Money, a real-time, person-to-person (P2P) payment solution. Created in collaboration with Visa and Mastercard, Moov Money lets consumers send and receive funds through their digital banking provider with just an eligible debit card and a trusted mobile phone connection, the company...

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Mastercard Helps Danske Bank With Denmark-First Agentic Transaction
September 21, 2026

Mastercard said it has helped Denmark’s Danske Bank reach an agentic payments milestone. Using Mastercard’s Agent Pay, Danske was able to complete a transaction in which an artificial intelligence (AI) agent made both the purchase and payment on a customers’ behalf, the payments giant announced...

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Bottomline Connects Payment Rails and Blockchains in One Platform
September 17, 2026

Business payments firm Bottomline introduced a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to improve payment messaging, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. Global Pay Connect is aimed at helping “financial institutions extend their payments infrastructure beyond traditional connectivity through API-enabled services and third-party data integration,”...

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Paymentus Scales Bill Payment Platform Across Additional Sectors
September 14, 2026

Paymentus executives emphasized the company’s position as a specialized technology provider navigating bill payment modernization, agentic artificial intelligence and expansion into additional verticals during the Goldman Sachs 2026 Communacopia + Technology conference. Paymentus CEO Dushyant Sharma framed bill presentment and payment processing as a technology...

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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...