News

June, 2026

• 12 June

  Crypto and Alternative Payments Could Open New Revenue Doors for Acquirers, Agents

  

  With large payments companies beginning to incorporate cryptocurrency and alternative payment methods into their processing flows, the opportunity for sales agents and their acquirers to sell another payment-acceptance method is growing. That’s the takeaway from a panel discussion this week at the Southeast Acquirers Association conference in Miami Beach, Fla. …
• 12 June

  COMMENTARY: AI Agents Are in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. What Could Go Wrong?

  

  When Zelle launched, consumers were enamored with the ability to send and receive instant, frictionless payments without leaving their banking app. Fraudsters took notice. Social-engineering scams quickly exploited Zelle’s speed and irreversibility, leaving banks, regulators, and consumers tangled in years of disputes over a deceptively simple question: Who was responsible? …
• 12 June

  Zelle’s Foray into India and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/12/26

  

  Early Warning Services LLC said India is the first country outside the United States where U.S. users of the Zelle peer-to-peer payments service can send remittances. Simultaneously, Early Warning introduced its first stablecoin, ZelleUSD, aimed at international payments from U.S. users. Stable, a blockchain network featuring the stablecoin USDT, has joined …
• 11 June

  Visa Unveils a Host of AI, Token, and Stablecoin Initiatives

  

  Visa Inc. announced multiple technological initiatives this week that aim to enhance the roles of artificial intelligence, stablecoins and tokens in payments, including usage of the ChatGPT AI program. The plethora of announcements came at the Visa Payments Forum 2026 in San Francisco. “AI is transforming the front end of commerce,” Jack …
• 11 June

  JetPay Charters A Crypto Path and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/11/26

  

  JetPay, a payments platform specializing in charter flights, has agreed to work with fiat and stablecoin payments platform Nuvion to speed cross-border payments for bookings. Xplor Technologies, a payments-technology provider, announced it has acquired Bitlancer, a developer of software for payroll and other functions aimed at fitness businesses. Bank of …
• 10 June

  A Year In, VAMP Is Turning Acquirer Anxiety Into Opportunity

  

  More than a year after Visa Inc. launched the Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program, acquirers and their vendors are adapting to the new way of keeping tabs on fraud and chargeback levels. Known as VAMP, the program, according to Visa, consolidated five fraud and dispute programs and reduced 38 distinct remediation processes …
• 10 June

  The Argument Over Interchange Is Far from Settled, Observers Say

  

  Payments executives who may be hoping that a court ruling Tuesday will put an end to years of bitter wrangling over card-acceptance costs are likely to be disappointed, experts tell Digital Transactions News. “This does not end the argument. It just stifles it,” says Cliff Gray, principal at Gray Consulting …
• 10 June

  COMMENTARY: Predictive Payments: Using AI to Solve the Margin Crisis

  

  For the better part of two decades, I’ve watched the payments industry evolve from a straightforward utility into a labyrinth of technical complexity. Merchant fee structures today are no longer just the cost of doing business. They are a volatile variable that can quietly erode a company’s bottom line. As …
• 10 June

  Agent Pay for Machines and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/10/26

  

  Mastercard announced Agent Pay for Machines, a system for the initiation, orchestration, and settlement of payments conducted at high speed between AI agents. The network is collaborating with more than 30 companies on the initiative, including Adyen, Global Payments, Stripe, and BVNK, a stablecoin platform it has agreed to acquire for $1.8 …
• 9 June

  Identity Crimes Increasingly Result in Multiple Fraud Events

  

  Whereas identity theft once appeared to be a single event related to a stolen credit card number, fraudulent charge, or compromised financial account, fraud victims increasingly are reporting multiple incidents once they learn they’ve been victimized, according to new research from the Identity Theft Resource Center. In its latest annual …