The technology is adept at working with partial account numbers and other shreds of data to alert banks of ongoing and potential crime, the network contends.

Retailers like Walmart, Target and Dollar General are changing the ways they collect payments in person. This, in turn, could influence payment habits, but it is unlikely to slow the overall momentum of digital transactions.

A new tool from the San Francisco-based fintech deploys artificial intelligence to automatically adjust merchants' card transaction fraud filters based on changing risk factors in real time.

Payment firm BVNK is betting that PYUSD's potential to connect to PayPal's network of millions of consumers and businesses will make it more than another investment currency.

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The Swedish financial institution argues over potential regulations that treat buy now/pay later lending like credit cards in the U.S.; Discover seeks the next hot market for real-time payments; and more.

Rather than compete against the rising tide of account-to-account transactions, the two card networks are looking for ways to make themselves essential to this growing market.

New technology decoupling payment cards from the funding source of the transaction would stimulate competition between card issuers and networks — and raise prospects for Capital One's proposed $35 billion acquisition of Discover Financial Services.

Santander joins Iberpay as the first supporters of the European Payment Council's instant account-to-account network, Australian lawmakers approved bills to create a federated digital identity system, and more.