payments

Payments, B2B, Digital, ACH, Bank Transactions, and In-App purchases.

60 Million Workers Rethink What’s Worth Buying

60 Million Workers Rethink What’s Worth Buying
60 Million Workers Rethink What’s Worth Buying
July 31, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

A dollar can only stretch so far. For 60 million Labor Economy workers, each trip to the checkout can involve hard choices about what to...

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Forget Travel, WEX’s Next Act Is B2B Payments
Forget Travel, WEX’s Next Act Is B2B Payments
July 23, 2026  |  B2B Payments

WEX Inc.’s (NYSE: WEX) second-quarter results, reported Wednesday (July 22), were flattered by forces outside its control. Higher fuel prices and favorable foreign exchange movements...

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Stripe’s Next Growth Engine Could Be PayPal’s Wallet
Stripe’s Next Growth Engine Could Be PayPal’s Wallet
July 15, 2026  |  Processor Acquisition

Stripe and PayPal have spent years expanding across digital commerce from opposite directions. Stripe built its business by selling payments infrastructure to merchants. PayPal built...

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Mastercard Considers Selling Vocalink UK Payments Business
Mastercard Considers Selling Vocalink UK Payments Business
July 13, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Mastercard is reportedly considering a sale of its U.K. retail payments business Vocalink. That’s according to a report Monday (July 13) from the Financial Times...

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Why the Companies Winning at Payments Aren’t Adding Providers
Why the Companies Winning at Payments Aren’t Adding Providers
July 13, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Payments are now part of the customer experience layer, the uptime layer and the revenue operations layer. That means they can no longer be managed...

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Forage Bets $40 Million That Affordability Is the Next Retail Network
Forage Bets $40 Million That Affordability Is the Next Retail Network
July 09, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Forage’s Ofek Lavian Today, 1 in 8 Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Roughly 1 in 2...

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AI Gives Every Purchase Its Own Credit Decision
AI Gives Every Purchase Its Own Credit Decision
July 07, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

For most of the history of financial services, credit functioned as a blunt instrument. A bank extended a line, a customer drew on it and...

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42% of Issuers Say Fraud and Disputes Are Driving Up Costs
42% of Issuers Say Fraud and Disputes Are Driving Up Costs
July 02, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud used to sit in the back office. Now it has a front-row seat in the issuer growth strategy. Every blocked purchase, failed dispute or...

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