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As of January, some 37% of U.S. consumers had used buy now, pay later financing when making a purchase within the prior 90 days, a 5% increase from a year earlier, according to JD Power’s annual BNPL study. Half of these consumers were under the age of 40. JD Power …
March, 2026
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12 March
Eye on Acquiring: CardFlight Debuts SwipeSimple Marketplace; Aurora Payments To Use Jaris Onboarding Service
Available beginning March 16, the CardFlight Inc. SwipeSimple App Marketplace will enable merchants to use curated applications to help run their businesses. In related news, fintech Jaris Inc. launched a merchant onboarding service with Aurora Payments as one of the first clients. New York City-based CardFlight says the marketplace for …
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12 March
Zelle and BofA Team up and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/12/26
Peer-to-peer payments platform Zelle has collaborated with Bank of America to process charitable disbursements from Donor Advised Funds, enabling nonprofits to receive charitable grant funding in near real time. Zelle is a unit of Early Warning Services. Some 26% of bill-pay platforms said their systems are ready for the future, though 80% …
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11 March
Choosing the Right Payment Processing Partner: A Checklist for Software Platforms
After everything you’ve invested in building your platform, the last thing you need is a payment processing partner that slows you down. For integrated software vendors (ISVs), payments aren’t just another feature or add-on. Your payment processor becomes a direct extension of your product, your brand, and the experience you …
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11 March
Mirakl Teams With J.P. Morgan Payments on Secure Agentic Commerce Transactions for Merchants
French fintech Mirakl SAS has partnered with J.P. Morgan Payments to provide infrastructure for the payments provider’s agentic-commerce offering. The partnership will enable merchants to facilitate agentic commerce without having to build and manage complex integrations and protocols. Mirakl will integrate J.P. Morgan Payments technology into its Nexus agentic-commerce service, which …
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11 March
UATP Teams With Hands In on a Split Funding Service for Travel
Travelers buying airfare direct from an airline have a new payment option that could ease some of the issues around funding that travel. UATP, a global payment network owned and operated by airlines, is working with Hands In, a specialist in split-payment enablement, to allow airlines to activate Hands In’s …
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11 March
Mastercard’s Crypto Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/11/26
Mastercard Inc. has launched its Crypto Partner Program, an effort to bring together more than 85 companies and financial institutions involved in cryptocurrency payments around the world. The aim is to encourage dialogue and collaboration on crypto-based ventures. Bilt Technologies Inc., a payments and rewards platform related to homeownership, announced it …
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10 March
Darwinium Launches AI Agent Fraud Detection Technology
Darwinium Holdings Inc., an artificial intelligence-based digital security and fraud-prevention platform, launched its AI agent fraud-detection solution early Tuesday. The technology is expected to help businesses combat the growing threat from AI-facilitated fraud as agentic commerce grows in popularity. Research conducted by Darwinium reveals that 97% of respondents reported an …
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10 March
Eye on Merchants: Mastercard Taps AI for Small Businesses; Wizard Works With Stripe on Agentic Commerce
Business use cases for artificial intelligence tools continue to develop, with news from Mastercard Inc. and Stripe Inc. among the latest developments. Mastercard launched its Virtual C-Suite, a service to help small businesses use AI in lieu of a cadre of expensive executives, and Stripe is working with Wizard, an …
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10 March
PCI Pal Zooms in and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/10/26
Payments-software developer PCI Pal announced it is widening its relationship with Zoom Communications Inc. to integrate PCI Pal’s payment technology with Zoom Virtual Agent, a technology aimed at resolving customer issues. Payments-technology firm Thales and Verifone announced an expanded relationship in which Verifone’s devices will integrate Thales’s eSIM technology, a move the companies say …
