Community banks, known for their personal touch and deep community ties, face unique challenges and opportunities to deepen those relationships. Introducing commercial credit cards is a strategic decision that aligns well with their commitment to local businesses. Offering a best-in-class commercial card program meets the needs of local enterprises and …

As criminals’ knowledge of how to beat multi-factor authentication through phishing schemes increases, the need for payment providers to implement phishing-resistant solutions continues to grow. Phishing attacks are a form of social engineering in which cybercriminals deceive consumers into revealing personal and account information. The cybercrime can also involve installation …

Consumers and merchants may be primed for it. New technology, consumer affinity for digital payments, and the allure of cheaper payment processing may be setting the stage for broader use of pay by bank in the United States. Paying by a bank account is not unfamiliar to most consumers. Already, …

The payments industry and the merchant community are pushing messages against and for the Credit Card Competition Act. Congress will decide who wins. Since the reintroduction a year ago of the Credit Card Competition Act, the bill’s proponents and opponents have unleashed high-octane marketing campaigns to sway legislators and the …

Open-banking technology provider Plaid Inc. is pairing-up with The Western Union Co. to bring its account-verification services to the wire-transfer giant’s European customers. Under the so-called collaboration San Francisco-based Plaid announced Thursday, Western Union will be able to tap Plaid’s open-banking system for account verification, thereby simplifying remittances and digital …

PayNearMe, a payments provider for iGaming, online sports betting, and other markets, announced it is integrating open banking capability through a new agreement with Trustly. Visa Inc. launched Visa Account Attack Intelligence, a platform that harnesses generative artificial intelligence to generate a score indicating the probability of card-testing attacks by fraudsters …

It’s May, and that means it’s time for our annual exercise to seek out and describe the payments players, apart from the big networks, that are rewriting the rules for the digital exchange of value. Capital One Financial Corp.’s bombshell announcement in February that it is offering to acquire Discover …

GenAI carries risks, some not yet well-known. But its potential to transform payments is too compelling to ignore. Generative AI has been described as a Gold Rush for businesses looking to cash in on the better user experiences and operating efficiencies it is said to create. It has also been …

Citing “relative stability” across key business metrics, such as cross-border volume, Visa Inc. late Tuesday reported March-quarter increases of 10% year-over-year in both net revenue ($8.8 billion) and net income ($4.7 billion). Driven by stable consumer spending, dollar volume grew 8%, while total cross-border dollar volume grew 16% and processed …

As a payments executive, he started an independent sales organization in 1998 that 19 years later would be acquired by Total System Services Inc. for $1.05 billion in cash. Now, more than four years since Henry Helgeson held a position at a payments company—other than as a board director or …