Digital Wallets news and trends

BNY Aims to Bring Cross-Border Bank Payments to Digital Wallets
Cross-border Payments // September 28, 2026

BNY has debuted a solution that lets banks send cross-border payments to retail digital wallets. The Pay-to-Wallet capability combines the bank’s global payments capabilities to support cross-border bank-to-wallet payments across approved markets and corridors, BNY said in a Monday (Sept. 28) news release. “Digital wallets are becoming...

Digital Wallets Bring New Rules for Consumer Protection
Cybersecurity // September 21, 2026

Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Jennifer Rosario Digital assets can reach millions of consumers faster than the security practices surrounding them can mature. Digital wallets and cryptocurrency products have moved beyond the embrace of technically sophisticated early users. A larger market gives criminals more...

Issuers Race to Win Spending Before the Card Arrives
Digital Payments // September 18, 2026

Waiting for a physical card to arrive is becoming less relevant to the moment when an issuer can start competing for a cardholder’s spending. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Issuer Engagement Playbook,” produced in collaboration with Visa DPS, finds that 59% of U.S. card issuers now offer automated...

Plaid and ID.me Team to Strengthen Benefit Payment ID Checks
Digital Identity // September 17, 2026

Plaid and digital identity wallet ID.me launched a benefits payments partnership, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. The collaboration is designed to combine ID.me’s wallet with Plaid’s financial account verification tools, letting government agencies confirm that the account receiving a payment belongs to...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI’s Payments Breakthrough Will Be Knowing When Not to Pay

September 30, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Chris Trainor of Paymentus Giving an artificial intelligence agent a wallet is easy to understand. Giving it permission to use that wallet safely is where the payments industry gets complicated. “Large language models are probabilistic, and financial execution can’t be,” Chris Trainor, head of platform strategy, innovation and […]

Digital Wallets Bring New Rules for Consumer Protection

September 21, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Jennifer Rosario Digital assets can reach millions of consumers faster than the security practices surrounding them can mature. Digital wallets and cryptocurrency products have...

Issuers Race to Win Spending Before the Card Arrives

September 18, 2026
Waiting for a physical card to arrive is becoming less relevant to the moment when an issuer can start competing for a cardholder’s spending. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Issuer Engagement Playbook,” produced...

47% of Shoppers Who Abandoned Their Carts Wanted a Digital Wallet Option

September 16, 2026
A shopper can make it through product search, comparison and cart building, then disappear at the payment screen. For merchants, that turns a nearly completed sale into a preventable loss....

Quick Reads
BNY Aims to Bring Cross-Border Bank Payments to Digital Wallets

September 28, 2026
BNY has debuted a solution that lets banks send cross-border payments to retail digital wallets. The Pay-to-Wallet capability combines the bank’s global payments capabilities to support cross-border bank-to-wallet payments across approved markets and corridors, BNY said in a Monday (Sept. 28) news release. “Digital wallets are becoming central to the cross-border payments landscape particularly in wallet-led markets across Asia […]

Plaid and ID.me Team to Strengthen Benefit Payment ID Checks

September 17, 2026
Plaid and digital identity wallet ID.me launched a benefits payments partnership, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. The collaboration is designed to combine ID.me’s wallet with Plaid’s financial...

Mastercard Sees Digital Wallet Users Exceeding 6 Billion by 2030

September 10, 2026
By 2030, more than 6 billion people could be using digital wallets. That’s according to Mastercard, which on Thursday (Sept. 10) introduced a set of solutions designed to help wallet providers offer a...

FIS and Ericsson Team to Improve Wallet-Led Financial Services

September 01, 2026
FIS has launched a collaboration with tech company Ericsson centered around “wallet-led” financial services. The partnership will see FIS payments and issuing capabilities integrated with the Ericsson Fintech Platform, helping...