News

April, 2026

• 9 April

  Embedding payments for growth: how ISVs can scale through vertical focus and partnerships

  

  Josh Bennett, Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon Embedded finance, embedded commerce, and integrated payments are different names for the same shift: integrating payments and financial services into your platform to deliver more value to customers and unlock recurring revenue streams. As Independent Software Vendors …
• 9 April

  Add Intuit as the Latest FedNow Participant

  

  Intuit Inc. is among the latest corporations to receive FedNow certification, a necessary step to begin offering real-time payments to its clients via the Federal Reserve’s system. Announced Thursday, the certification means Intuit, owner of business-accounting program QuickBooks and other financial-technology services, will be able to partner with financial institutions …
• 9 April

  Circle Signs Thunes for Its New Managed Payments Platform

  
• 8 April

  Synthetic Identities And Malicious Bots Boost Fraud Attacks, LexisNexis Says

  

  Synthetic-identity fraud was the fastest growing type of fraud in 2025, accounting for 11% of total fraud globally, an eight-fold increase from 2024, says LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ annual cybercrime report. The explosion in synthetic identity fraud—which occurs when a criminal blends pieces of information belonging to multiple consumers to craft …
• 8 April

  Bluefin Pairs With Agile on a Ticketing Point-of-Sale Service

  

  With nearly 60% of consumers willing to travel to experience live music, according to a Live Nation survey, ticketing could be a beneficial segment for acquirers to pursue. Bluefin Payment Systems and Agile Ticketing Solutions are continuing to court ticketing companies with the expansion of their deal to now support …
• 8 April

  Helium Acquires Maroo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/8/26 

  

  Helium Ventures said it has acquired Maroo Inc., a payments platform specializing in weddings and events and serving more than 13,000 businesses. Terms were not disclosed. Fraud-prevention platform Fingerprint said recommendations based on artificial intelligence are now available on its Suspect Score service, a move the company said improves detection accuracy. O Bee …
• 7 April

  Outpayce Boosts Travel Companies’ Chargeback Resilience with Riskified Integration

  

  Travel companies contend with chargeback disputes as any other merchant would, and now those using the Outpayce platform can tap into Riskified’s fraud-prevention tools and its Chargeback Guarantee model to help. Announced Tuesday, the integration sees Riskified services made available via Outpayce’s, payments platform from Amadeus IT Group SA, which …
• 7 April

  Grocer Ahold Delhaize Links With Fiserv to Offer Pay-By-Bank

  

  Pay-by-bank received a substantial endorsement early Tuesday with the news that the grocery giant Ahold Delhaize USA has gone deeper into a partnership with the payments processor Fiserv Inc. to offer the payment alternative on Ahold’s proprietary platform. The company is a unit of the Netherlands-based grocer of the same …
• 7 April

  PAR Intelligence Unveiled and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/7/26 

  

  PAR Technology Corp., a provider of point-of-sale technology for multi-unit restaurants and stores, has launched PAR Intelligence, an AI technology aimed at identifying and acting on opportunities to maximize profit. Yuno Technologies released Payments Concierge, an agentic AI service aimed at monitoring merchants’ payment technology to identify issues affecting cost and …
• 6 April

  Square’s Latest Processing Win Is on the Golf Course

  

  Golftec LLC, a provider of golf lessons and club fittings, has partnered with Square, Block Inc.’s point-of-sale payments unit, to provide payment processing across its more than 260 locations in the United States. The deal with Square is expected to bring greater efficiency to Golftec’s payment-acceptance processes by reducing the …