RS2 Adds Payment Orchestration Software
The company’s technology adds reconciliation, reporting, compliance, chatbot and virtual assistant customer engagement tools, fraud management, risk monitoring and operational analytics.
Area of Interest: Merchant Acquiring
ACI Connetic Moves Card Processing to the Cloud
ACI launched ACI Connetic in 2025 with instant, ACH and real-time gross settlement electronic funds transfers. Two customers are live using the new platform for cross-border A2A payments.
Ixopay Helps Merchants Manage AI-Driven Commerce
Through a single integration, the company delivers universal tokenization, payment orchestration, payment monitoring and an intelligence layer they can place on top of their existing payment technology stacks to handle every agentic commerce protocol.
Largest Merchant Acquirers in the US — 2025
The majority of purchase transactions were initiated by global brand and domestic-only credit, debit and prepaid cards. The global brands are American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, Mastercard, Visa and UnionPay.
Neema Push-to-Card Cross-Border Payments
Neema makes its network capabilities available to other companies, including Visa, TerraPay, Thunes and UnionPay.
Nexi Group Expands Card Processing in Europe
The Nexi platform operates in the cloud and accommodates global and domestic-only card brands and mobile wallets.
Visa Buys LATAM Processors
Private equity firm Advent International has sold two of the three processing businesses it owned in Argentina to Visa.
Merchant Processing Fees in the United States — 2025
Credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in the US generated $12.498 trillion in purchase volume in 2025, up 5.0% from 2024.
FIS End-to-End Support for Agentic Commerce
Agentic commerce today involves a single transaction tied to a single payment card. FIS is preparing for 12 to 18 months from now when issuers will want to provide support for cardholders with multiple card and non-card payment options to maximize AI agent commerce.
Consumer Direct ACH Payments — 2025
Added to FedACH and EPN network volumes is an estimated 7.00 billion transactions processed in-house by financial institutions when the recipient and the payor of an ACH item are customers of the same financial institution.