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CoinZoom Crypto Debit Card

CoinZoom’s blockchain-based trading platform makes an immediate crypto-to-fiat currency exchange on those transactions. The company maintains SOC 2 Type II enterprise-level data security.

Lydian Stablecoin Processing for Merchants

Acquirers need only one link to Lydian to gain access to more than 300 digital assets and 860 million consumers with crypto wallets (MetaMask, Binance, Trust Wallet, etc.). Lydian provides a checkout user interface SDK and a suite of APIs and unified merchant reporting. There is no operational overhead tied to crypto wallet management or treasury management. No new workflows are required.

Know Your Agent Pay Protocol Consortium

Skyfire, which launched end-to-end interoperable network infrastructure capabilities for autonomous agentic commerce early in 2025, assembled a consortium of more than 15 security vendors, bot managers and identity and access management companies to create a trust protocol they call KYAPay to make the web just as useful to an AI agent as it is to a human when making a payment.

Mastercard Approved for BitLicense in New York

With a BitLicense, Mastercard can operate a cryptocurrency business that serves consumers and businesses in the state of New York. It can transmit crypto, store and maintain it on behalf of customers and buy and sell.

Global Payments AI-First Handheld POS Device

The ultra-thin Genius will deliver AI features such as the ability to accept menu item orders in high-noise environments based on conversations between the customer and the server, with the software identifying what is being ordered.

Vera Credit Mastercard Card

Vera Credit launched this month with a direct mail campaign, testing three levels of cash back reward offers to 150,000 prospects. The company is not marketing online because it wants to control applications.

Sunbit Co-Branded Cards for Retailers

More than 40,000 businesses in the US, including dental offices, automotive repair, veterinarians and other in-person service providers, offer more than four million of their customers flexible payment options from Sunbit. The company opened its buy now, pay later (BNPL) business in 2015. In 2019, Sunbit started offering select BNPL users a Visa credit card. […]

US Card Spending at Merchants — 2025

Purchase volume included Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover cards, combined with Interlink, Star, Pulse, Nyce and other domestic-only PIN-based (predominately) debit networks. Airline, hotel, gasoline and other co-branded card partnerships that operate on the Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover networks are included.

Visa Offers Card-Based ID Verification with Keyno

Keyno’s software does more than fight fraud. Issuers can also use it to place parameters on card spending, validate 3DS transactions, autofill fields at checkout, activate an app, confirm that cardholders are in possession of their card, enable click to pay and manage the life cycle of a merchant or device token.