Payments Processing news and trends

AI Turns Scattered Payment Data Into Smarter Routing Decisions

September 28, 2026
AI payments Spreedly
Payments Modernization Now Runs on Partnerships
Payment Methods // May 28, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Maverick Payments’ Guy DiMaggio For all the discussion surrounding modernization in payments, the industry still depends on infrastructure built long before real-time commerce, embedded finance and API-driven integrations became standard expectations. And the question continues as to whether...

Cross River Completes Card Tech Stack With In-House Processing Engine
Payments As A Service // December 10, 2025

Technology infrastructure provider Cross River Bank has added a proprietary, in-house card processing engine to its card program capabilities. The company now owns the complete technology stack, from issuing to processing, it said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10) press release emailed to PYMNTS. With its...

Nuvei Boosts Global Processing Capabilities by Migrating Core Services to Microsoft Azure
Partnerships // December 02, 2025

Nuvei’s global processing capabilities can now support 10,000 transactions per second and more than $1 trillion in annual payment volume. These capabilities were expanded by the company’s expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft, which enables Nuvei’s core payment processing application programming interfaces (APIs) to run on...

Thredd Expands Payments Processing Platform by Joining Visa Cloud Connect
Partnerships // November 25, 2025

Global payments processor Thredd has signed an agreement in which it will connect across three global Visa Cloud Connect endpoints. By connecting to Visa Cloud Connect, which allows organizations to access Visa’s global payments network VisaNet, Thredd will eliminate the need for multiple regional integrations...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Turns Scattered Payment Data Into Smarter Routing Decisions

September 28, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Artificial intelligence’s near-term payments value may come less from autonomous checkout than from making the payment stack itself more intelligent and machine-readable. “There’s a ton of payments optimization potential in these payments rails, particularly in complex multi-PSP [payment service provider] environments,”  Adam Hiatt, executive vice […]

Payments Modernization Now Runs on Partnerships

May 28, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Maverick Payments’ Guy DiMaggio For all the discussion surrounding modernization in payments, the industry still depends on infrastructure built long before real-time commerce,...

Services and APIs Turning Interchange Pressure Into Merchant Growth

June 13, 2025
Payment processing may be the plumbing of modern commerce, but for banks and FinTechs chasing transaction volume, it is also the battlefield where customer loyalty is won — or lost....

CHIPS Liquidity Algorithm Frees Up Billions From Bank Balance Sheets

February 25, 2025
All companies strive for liquidity — the ability to turn assets into the cash needed to fund short-term liabilities. Liquidity is especially important to financial institutions (FIs) so that they...

Quick Reads
Cross River Completes Card Tech Stack With In-House Processing Engine

December 10, 2025
Technology infrastructure provider Cross River Bank has added a proprietary, in-house card processing engine to its card program capabilities. The company now owns the complete technology stack, from issuing to processing, it said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10) press release emailed to PYMNTS. With its new processing capability, Cross River provides partners with bank-grade compliance, […]

Nuvei Boosts Global Processing Capabilities by Migrating Core Services to Microsoft Azure

December 02, 2025
Nuvei’s global processing capabilities can now support 10,000 transactions per second and more than $1 trillion in annual payment volume. These capabilities were expanded by the company’s expanded strategic partnership...

Thredd Expands Payments Processing Platform by Joining Visa Cloud Connect

November 25, 2025
Global payments processor Thredd has signed an agreement in which it will connect across three global Visa Cloud Connect endpoints. By connecting to Visa Cloud Connect, which allows organizations to...

Worldpay to Provide Food Retailer Kroger With Payment Processing Services

October 20, 2025
Worldpay will power payment processing for the in-store, online and mobile transactions of Kroger, the food retailer that serves 11 million customers a day under a variety of banner names....