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June, 2025

• 2 June

  COMMENTARY: Online Marketplaces: A Dynamic, Growing, and High-stakes Environment

  

  As online marketplaces continue to reshape global commerce, the opportunities for these businesses—and their payment providers—are vast. Yet, as recent trends demonstrate, so are the risks. Online marketplaces and their payment providers are increasingly at the center of a growing web of sophisticated fraud, regulatory scrutiny, and legal accountability. Challenges …
• 2 June

  Isaacman Grounded from NASA and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/2/25

  

  Over the weekend, President Donald Trump withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman, Shift4 Payments Inc. founder and chief executive, as the nominee to lead NASA, the Associated Press reported. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “After a thorough review of prior associations I am hereby withdrawing the nomination of Jared …

May, 2025

• 30 May

  Mastercard’s Small Business Navigator Aims to Level up Small Businesses

  

  Filled with ideas and enthusiasm, U.S. small businesses have the drive to grow their businesses, but a low availability of tools and resources may hamper some of that ambition. Mastercard Inc. says its new Small Business Navigator can help with that. The program offers education, insights, protection, and planning tools, …
• 30 May

  Congress Mulls a Tax on Cross Border Remittances

  

  Several organizations representing the payments industry sent a letter to Congress late Wednesday urging lawmakers not to pass legislation that will tax cross-border remittances originated in the United States and will require money transmitters to gather identity and citizenship verification data from the sender. The bill has advanced to the …
• 30 May

  Flexa Teams with Nexus Wallet and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/30/25

  

  Flexa, a payments platform based on digital assets, said it is working with wallet provider Nexus Wallet to simplify payments via the cryptocurrency Litecoin. The partnership is active at 41,000 retail locations in North America, the parties say. Stablecoin-based payments platform Stable Sea launched Stable Sea Terminal, said to be capable of …
• 29 May

  NMI Adds Tap to Pay for iPhone

  

  Payment processor Network Merchants LLC, or NMI, on Thursday announced it is enabling tap to pay for iPhone. The move will enable merchants to accept contactless credit and debit cards, as well as Apple Pay and other digital wallets, through an iPhone and a supporting iOS app. iOS is Apple’s mobile …
• 29 May

  Expect More AI in Fraud Prevention Measures, a Survey Finds

  

  As the nascent artificial-intelligence field develops, financial institutions are readying to adopt AI in their fraud-prevention measures just as criminals are devising AI-enabled ways to make their schemes more harmful. Evidence of this is that 43% of financial institutions surveyed for the DataVisor “2025 Fraud and AML Executive Report” will …
• 29 May

  Bluevine Launches Payment Links and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/29/25

  

  Bluevine, a banking platform for small businesses, launched Invoicing and Payment Links, aimed at allowing businesses to receive payments directly in bank accounts via a range of payment methods. The buy now, pay later platform Affirm Inc. said it is expanding its partnership with the merchant Williams-Sonoma Inc. to Canada. Besides Williams-Sonoma, …
• 28 May

  CardCash Adds BNPL Through Zip; Payment Gateway Citcon Partners With Splitit

  

  CardCash.com, a leading secondary gift card exchange operated by Giftify Inc., has partnered with buy now, pay later provider Zip Co. Ltd. to allow consumers to pay for gift card purchases in installments. The partnership is expected to help CardCash users better manage their cash flow while receiving the savings …
• 28 May

  Eye on Fraud Prevention: TIS’s Fraud Prevention Boost; Chargeflow and Seon’s Integration

  

  The more than 7,000 U.S. travel agencies have another tool to help prevent fraud with a new service from Travel Industry Solutions. Meanwhile, chargeback-automation platform Chargeflow and Seon, a fraud-prevention and compliance provider, have integrated Chargeflow’s technology into the Seon platform. Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based TIS says its tool is the …