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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Klarna Looks to Shake up Banking With Its Savings Accounts
The payments platform Klarna AB may be a leading provider of buy now, pay later lending, but it is seeing ...
Feedzai’s IQ Score and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/9/26
Fraud-prevention specialist Feedzai announced Feedzai IQ Score, an AI-native scoring service to measure fraud risk for banks. Braid FI, which develops payments ...
With Their Eyes on Affordability, Consumers Increasingly Gift Themselves, Blackhawk Finds
The number of consumers planning to buy gift cards for self-use rose from 31% last year to 56% in 2026, ...







