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Fiserv CEO Says Divided Structure Left Products Underused

September 14, 2026
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FinTechs See 146 Million Reasons to Target Credit Unions
Credit Unions // September 11, 2026

FinTechs once saw credit unions as a hard market to crack. Now the door is crowded, and many providers want a way inside. “FinTechs Want In: How Credit Unions Can Turn Partnerships Into Growth” is a PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera collaboration. The report examines the...

Credit Unions Are Missing the Rewards Their Members Want Most
Credit Unions // August 27, 2026

A credit union credit card can sit in a member’s wallet for years and still miss most of the action. When rewards enter the picture, familiarity doesn’t always win the purchase. “The Rewards Opportunity Credit Unions Can No Longer Ignore” is a PYMNTS Intelligence report...

EBANX CEO Says Payments’ Next Rival May Not Be a Payments Company
Artificial Intelligence // August 25, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With João Del Valle of EBANX Thirty years after longtime Intel CEO Andy Grove warned executives that a strategic threat might arrive from outside their familiar competitive set, artificial intelligence is making that challenge front and center for payments...

FIS Says Purchase Data Will Push Payments Beyond the Transaction
Payments Innovation // August 24, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Jakob Harrison of FIS Jakob Harrison said he does not buy the idea that payments executives should spend their days looking over their shoulders. There are too many things to look at. Artificial intelligence is advancing. Agentic commerce...

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FinTechs See 146 Million Reasons to Target Credit Unions

September 11, 2026
FinTechs once saw credit unions as a hard market to crack. Now the door is crowded, and many providers want a way inside. “FinTechs Want In: How Credit Unions Can Turn Partnerships Into Growth” is a PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera collaboration. The report examines the growing opportunity for credit unions and FinTechs to work together. […]

FIS Says Purchase Data Will Push Payments Beyond the Transaction

August 24, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Jakob Harrison of FIS Jakob Harrison said he does not buy the idea that payments executives should spend their days looking over their...

Banks Prepare Payments for AI Commerce

August 21, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Thales’ Caio Reis Banks are rebuilding payments systems for transactions that may soon be initiated by software rather than people. That prospect changes what...

Huntington Bank Joins Push to Make Big Payments More Resilient

June 02, 2026
For years, payment infrastructure was treated as plumbing: necessary and expensive. But increasingly, financial institutions are approaching it differently, weighing payment architecture as part of liquidity planning, operational continuity and...

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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 Communacopia + Technology conference, Georgakopoulos said that by changing its […]

UK’s FCA Says Payments Innovation Is Among Its Regulatory Priorities in 2026

March 26, 2026
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans to encourage innovation in payments this year by supporting the expansion of open banking, modernizing payments regulation, and exploring stablecoins and other...

Musk Says X Money Set to Debut in April

March 10, 2026
Elon Musk said X Money is set to launch in April. “X Money early public access will launch next month,” Musk said in a Tuesday (March 10) post on X. ?...

New Visa API Tool Updates Payment Infrastructure

March 09, 2026
The Visa Acceptance Platform now enables acquirers to modernize their payment processing through a single API. The capability comes from the newly launched Visa Intelligent Authorization, which is now available...