Watch more: The Digital Shift With Visa’s Pavan HS Artificial intelligence shopping agents are creating a new kind of customer at the merchant’s front door: software that may know what a consumer wants, yet arrives without many of the signals merchants have learned to trust....
Invoice lifecycle management Basware has completed its acquisition of payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair. “The acquisition extends Basware’s invoice lifecycle management capabilities all the way to the payment itself,” the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release. The release notes that an “invoice can be authentic, accurate and...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Operation Shamrock’s Erin West The morning before she spoke with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster, Erin West took a call from a man in Arizona who had lost $4.5 million to an investment scam. He’d done everything a victim is...
Before a merchant can accept card payments, a processor or acquiring bank must decide whether to take on the business and its payment risk. Two September Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cases show how much can ride on that approval. The FTC alleged that Nuvei opened...
October 06, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Visa’s Pavan HS Artificial intelligence shopping agents are creating a new kind of customer at the merchant’s front door: software that may know what a consumer wants, yet arrives without many of the signals merchants have learned to trust. Pavan HS, senior director of product, agentic commerce at Visa, […]
September 28, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Operation Shamrock’s Erin West The morning before she spoke with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster, Erin West took a call from a man in Arizona...
September 22, 2026
Before a merchant can accept card payments, a processor or acquiring bank must decide whether to take on the business and its payment risk. Two September Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
September 17, 2026
Fraud prevention is no longer a cost center, and for many firms, has become an investment with a measurable return. “Payment Protection: Why Firms Still Aren’t Real-Time Ready,” a PYMNTS...
October 06, 2026
The Treasury Department’s new payment verification process stopped $175 million in payments that would have gone to deceased individuals during the past fiscal year, the department said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. That process is one of several improvements Treasury made during fiscal year 2026 to prevent fraud and improper payments, according to […]
October 05, 2026
Invoice lifecycle management Basware has completed its acquisition of payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair. “The acquisition extends Basware’s invoice lifecycle management capabilities all the way to the payment itself,” the company said in...
September 20, 2026
The prediction market sector is quickly growing, and marquee player Polymarket along with it. But as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (Sept. 20), the company has struggled with...
September 20, 2026
Decades-old payment technology is reportedly helping scammers steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the welfare system. It’s part of an operation led by Romanian organized crime groups in the...