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Financial institutions pondering how FedNow, the real-time payment service from the Federal Reserve, might fit into their product sets will have a new incentive to factor in when the FedNow discount program begins Jan. 1. Eligible FIs could receive a minimum of a $5,000 discount when enabling FedNow receive capabilities. …
September, 2026
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3 September
Fiserv’s Small Business Index Stays Flat in August
U.S. small businesses registered a mixed performance in August, with dollar volume climbing but transactions dropping for the tenth straight month, according to the August Small Business Index released early Thursday by the payments processor Fiserv Inc. It all added up to a Small Business Index reading of 145, flat …
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3 September
Shopline’s Splitit Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/3/26
Shopline, a commerce platform, has agreed to integrate card-linked installment payments capability from Splitit. Finzly, a money-movement platform operating on ACH and real-time rails, has launched Assure, a service intended to protect banks against attacks by rogue AI agents. The new service is part of Finzly’s Agentic Galaxy set of AI …
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2 September
Building a successful payments strategy: How ISOs and ISVs can drive scalable growth together
The future is not ISOs versus ISVs. It’s ISOs and ISVs working together. By: Josh Bennett, Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon The payments industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by innovations such as agentic commerce, instant payments, and embedded financial services. …
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2 September
Eye on Block: Cash App Score Gains Visibility; Bakery Consolidates Under Square
Block Inc. will make its proprietary Cash App Score available to external lenders for the first time, while its Square acquiring unit lines up another retailer for its suite of point-of-sale services and hardware. A scoring model once only used internally by Block for its set of lending products now …
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2 September
OpenPayd Prepares for a U.S. Launch As Big Banks Plan for a Dollar Stablecoin
OpenPayd, a London-based provider of open-banking and stablecoin services, announced an expansion into the U.S. market, having acquired 43 state money-transfer licenses. Globally, the company processes more than $300 billion in volume yearly for more than 1,200 businesses. The announcement comes following OpenPayd’s integration this month of MSB USA Inc., …
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2 September
Housecall Pro Picks Yeeld and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/2/26
Surcharging provider Yeeld said it is working with Housecall Pro, a platform supporting home-service professionals, to enable surcharging on credit card payments. CheckAlt said it will provide payment processing to LoanPro, a lending platform, to handle both paper-check and online-banking payments from LoanPro customers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it will support ticketless entry and …
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1 September
Visa Adds a Fraud Score for Account-to-Account Transactions
With account-to-account transaction growth forecasted by Juniper Research to increase 83% by 2030, card brands and financial institutions are readying more fraud-prevention measures. The latest is a fraud score for A2A payments from Visa Inc. Announced Tuesday, the updated version of Visa’s A2A Protect service now includes a fraud score, …
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1 September
EMVCo’s Effort to Reinforce Trust in Card-Based Agentic Commerce
The payments industry’s embrace of agentic commerce took a step forward early Tuesday with an announcement from EMVCo that the standards body has developed a framework for “secure, interoperable, and scalable” agentic transactions using cards. The framework is by no means a final set of rules, but is intended as …
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1 September
ACI To Acquire Cranium and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/1/26
ACI Worldwide Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Cranium Ventures, a developer of technology for switching card-based transactions. Cranium will become part of ACI’s Connetic for Cards payments-orchestration unit, launched in March. ACI says its various units process more than 300 billion card transactions per year. Terms of the deal, which …
