Adyen Recognized as a Leader in Merchant Payment Providers Evaluation
- 6 months 5 days ago
- Payments
Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2026 report. In this evaluation, Adyen received the highest score possible in 14 different criteria, including Innovation, Roadmap and Data, Analytics and Insights.
SoFi and Mastercard Partner to Enable SoFiUSD Settlement Across Mastercard’s Global Payments Network
- 6 months 6 days ago
- Payments
SoFi Technologies, Inc. today announced an enhanced partnership with Mastercard to enable SoFiUSD as a settlement option across Mastercard’s global payments network. SoFiUSD, the company’s fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin, is the first stablecoin offered by a U.S. nationally chartered and insured deposit bank on a public, permissionless blockchain.
Finastra Launches AI-Based OperatorAssist to Transform How Banks Address Payments Handling
- 6 months 6 days ago
- Payments
Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced the launch of OperatorAssist, an AI-powered solution that is available to add to its payment hub user interface, designed to reduce errors, speed exception handling, and lower operational costs across the payments lifecycle.
ACI Worldwide Launches Card Payments on Cloud-Native ACI Connetic, Advancing Unified Payments Platform
- 6 months 6 days ago
- Payments
ACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced the launch of ACI Connetic for Cards, a next generation, fully integrated, modernized card payments suite within ACI Connetic, the industry’s first unified cloud-native payments hub, bringing together account-to-account (A2A), card payments and AI-driven fraud prevention on one platform.
Swift Accelerates Transformation of Consumer Payments as Banks Roll Out New Framework for Retail Transactions
- 6 months 6 days ago
- Payments
Consumers and small businesses receiving payments in a range of countries, including five of the world’s largest remittance markets, will be among the first to benefit as Swift and banks globally roll out a pioneering new framework to bring next generation speed and new levels of affordability and predictability to cross-border retail payments.
PPRO Brings Swish into PayPal, Giving Swedish Consumers a Familiar Way to Pay Around the World
- 6 months 6 days ago
- Payments
PPRO, one of the leading local payments platforms, has collaborated with PayPal to enable 8.7 million Swish users to pay with their preferred payment method at thousands of online stores around the world.
Worldline Completes Its First Wero Online Payment With the Red Cross in Belgium
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Worldline, a European leader in payment services, has enabled its first Wero online payment transaction in Belgium, the second European nation to enable eCommerce payments after Germany. This historic moment was done for the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders (Rode Kruis-Vlaanderen) following the announcement of Wero’s eCommerce launch in the country.
Nexi Launches New Agentic Commerce Capabilities, Enabling Automated Payments Workflows for AI Agents
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Nexi Group, the European PayTech, today announced
Visa and Bridge Expand Collaboration, With Plans to Bring Stablecoin-Linked Cards to Over 100 Countries
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Visa, a global leader in digital payments, and Bridge, a leading stablecoin infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, today announced an expansion of their global card issuance product that they first unveiled in 2025. Bridge enables businesses and fintech developers to offer stablecoin-backed Visa cards. Now, through Bridge’s partnership with Lead Bank, these card transactions can be settled onchain with Visa.
Klarna Expands Further Into Agentic Commerce, Offering Flexible Payments to Merchants via Stripe's Shared Payment Tokens
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, today announced that its flexible payment options will soon be supported in AI agent-driven shopping experiences through Stripe’s Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs), making Klarna available in AI-powered checkout flows for US merchants already live with Klarna through Stripe, provided AI shopping agents allow the ability to offer flexible payments at checkout.
Spreedly Makes Agentic Commerce a Live Channel for Merchants
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
AI agents have advanced from recommending products to completing purchases at checkout. Spreedly today announced that agentic commerce is now live as a channel within its open payments platform, enabling merchants to process agent-initiated transactions over their existing payment infrastructure.
Lessn Exceeds $100 Million Turnover On Its Payments Orchestration Platform
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Accounts payable automation company Lessn today announced that it exceeded $100 million being transacted on its platform in February 2026 within its first year of operations, as the company considers a new investment round.
Santander And Mastercard Complete Europe’s First Live End-To-End Payment Executed By An AI Agent
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Banco Santander and Mastercard today announced the successful completion of Europe’s first live end-to-end payment executed by an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, representing the first agentic payment carried out within a regulated banking framework and marking a significant milestone in the application of AI systems capable of initiating and completing transactions on behalf of customers.
Strategic Imperatives Expands GoCardless Integration To Automate End-To-End Billing And Disbursements
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Strategic Imperatives, a leading provider of cloud-native billing and revenue management solutions for telecoms and connectivity providers, has expanded its partnership with bank payment company GoCardless to integrate the fintech’s new Outbound Payments feature - a disbursement capability which enables businesses to send payments to their customers.
Visa Completes Acquisition of Prisma and Newpay
- 6 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Visa today announced it has completed its acquisition of Prisma Medios de Pago S.A.U. and Newpay S.A.U. in Argentina. This transaction strengthens Visa's commitment to advancing payment innovation and modernizing financial infrastructure across the country.
