Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machine-to-Machine Payments
Last month, the company launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), an end-to-end orchestration service that supports use cases such as when AI agents build websites and design marketing campaigns and require the ability to accept micropayments.
Rain Rewards Program for Stablecoin Card Issuers
Blockchains are built to easily facilitate interoperable transaction flows, which makes them ideal for when multiple parties participate in the same transaction. No complicated integrations are required as is the case with co-branded airline cards that provide extra loyalty points to cardholders based on purchases made at select restaurant, rideshare company and other merchants that partner with the issuer.
Kozen’s P8 Dual Terminal
Kozen is a payment-focused subsidiary of XC Tech, a Shanghai-based electronics company. XC Tech also produces a line of POS terminals as well as devices for logistics, delivery and inventory tracking. Kozen’s flagship model is the P8 Dual (shown here), an Android-based device with a 6.7-inch IPS upward-facing touchscreen and a 2.5-inch IPS forward-facing touchscreen. […]
Nordiska Embedded Finance
Sweden-based Nordiska plans to expand throughout Europe by offering embedded finance services as an orchestration layer rather than as a core banking service. The company’s modular platform delivers financial products such as banking-as-a-service, cards-as-a-service, white-label and co-branded credit card programs and card-linked loyalty programs via a single API. Nordiska sees opportunities to provide co-branded credit […]
Patents for Vehicle Data and Two-Way Payments
Aiden Auto provides an embedded software platform that securely facilitates sharing vehicle data with third parties. The platform interfaces directly with the vehicle. Other technology providers utilize telematics hardware and aftermarket dongles to accomplish data sharing. The company recently secured three patents that cover vehicle-based payments, in-vehicle consent and data sharing in the United States […]
OnePay Adds the Builder Card to Establish Credit Scores
OnePay is embedded in the Walmart ecosystem, including being prominently displayed on Walmart’s website. Walmart is the second largest US retailer and the second largest ecommerce provider in the US.
Europe’s Top Card Issuers 2025
The 50 largest issuers of cards in Europe ranked by 2025 purchase volume on credit, debit and prepaid consumer, small business and commercial cards are shown on page 7 of Issue 1311. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1311. Those cards carried either the global brands of Visa, Mastercard, American Express and […]
S2M Card Processing
Digital processing technology that covers the entire payment value chain has been available from Casablanca-based S2M for over 40 years. S2M provides more than 160 customers in over 35 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia with card issuing and merchant account processing and card personalization services. S2M customers include national switches and payment […]
Top 30 Issuers of Mastercard and Visa Consumer Card Products in the US 2026
The largest US issuers of Mastercard and Visa consumer credit and consumer debit (and prepaid) card products are ranked in issue 1310 based on purchase volume in 2025. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1310. The Consumer Purchase Volume columns exclude spending for goods and services tied to small business, corporate, purchasing […]
Visa and Brale’s Stablecoin Proof of Concept on the Canton Network
The Canton Network provides transactionlevel privacy not found on other public blockchains, such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and Polygon, which are decentralized and open source. On the Canton Network, only parties that are part of the transaction can see its details. Multiple parties can transact using different private ledgers.