Digital Transactions Authoritative, insightful and timely information for payments professionals
Even amid tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and international fraud schemes, cross-border commerce continues to grow. While consumers enjoy unprecedented access to a global marketplace, the payments industry behind that experience must navigate a complex, fragmented, and fast-changing regulatory environment. Country-specific regulatory differences are especially challenging for high-risk categories such as drugs, …
February, 2026
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3 February
PayPal Gets a New CEO As It Looks to Sharpen ‘Execution’
PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday announced it has appointed board chairman Enrique Lores president and chief executive, replacing Alex Chriss. Lores moves into his new position after more than six years as CEO at HP Inc. The company also reported December-quarter results in the face of a steep drop in …
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2 February
North’s Merchant Management API: CRM‑Level Control for Modern Payments Partners
North’s Merchant Management API gives Wholesale ISOs, Full Service Providers (FSPs), and Payment Facilitators deep, It is designed for partners that own risk, manage underwriting, and want to differentiate themselves with custom tools and portals for both internal teams and merchants. What the Merchant Management API does At its core, …
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2 February
Deluxe And Payfinia Enable Paze for ISVs
Chalk up another way for merchants and consumers to use Paze, the digital wallet from Early Warning Services LLC, as a deal between Deluxe Corp. and Payfinia seeks to make it easier for independent software vendors to incorporate Paze into their software apps. Payfinia, formed by Tyfone in 2024 to …
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2 February
QuickBooks Picks Affirm and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/2/26
Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Holdings Inc. will be the exclusive pay-over-time provider integrated with QuickBooks Payments under an agreement announced by QuickBooks provider Intuit Inc. and Affirm. BizTrip AI, whose technology uses AI to help manage payments and other functions in corporate travel, raised $1.5 million in new funding led …
January, 2026
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30 January
It’s CCCA Times Two As Congress Drops an Attachment Effort
Plans to attach an amended version of the Credit Card Competition Act to a cryptocurrency-infrastructure bill were shelved Thursday, effectively leaving two versions of the bill floating around Congress. The CCCA was amended late last week to include a provision that called for enforcement of the CCCA under antitrust law, …
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30 January
Visa Says It’s Positioning Itself to Be a ‘Hyperscaler’ in Payments
Visa Inc. chief executive Ryan McInerney touted the card network’s ability to build and deliver innovations and scalable technologies as drivers behind the company’s strong fiscal first quarter 2026 results. Processed-transaction dollar volume grew 8% year-over-year in the quarter to nearly $4 trillion in constant dollars, with transactions up 9% …
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30 January
Amex Revenue up 9% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/30/26
American Express Co., reported 2025 revenue of $72.2 billion, up 9% year-over-year. Fourth-quarter revenue totaled $19 billion, up 10%. Net income came to $2.46 billion for the quarter and $10.8 billion for the year, up 13% and 7%, respectively. Revenue from discount fees was $37.4 billion for the year, a …
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29 January
Mastercard Posts a Solid Quarter As It Readies for Agentic Commerce
Mastercard Inc. grew its fourth-quarter net revenue by double digits in the face of a market that has forced payments companies to wrestle with a slew of knotty considerations, including the potential impact of a major bill that would cap credit card rates and the dizzying effect of fast moves …
