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SOCURE, a top provider of digital identity verification, compliance and fraud prevention services, has added Remote Verifier to its RiskOS decisioning platform. The company’s layered verification infrastructure can instantly verify more than 99% of identities using active and passive methods.  Remote Verifier is used for the less than 1% of idividuals who do not pass initial verification, do not want to use automated systems or who require a manual option to verify their identity.

INTUIT, the technology platform that offers Quickbooks, Turbo Tax, Credit Karma and Mailchimp, has launched Business Credit Card, a World Elite Mastercard product created for small businesses. The card syncs transactions, receipts and statements directly into Quickbooks. Photos of receipts are matched with transactions. Business Credit Card is issued by WebBank.

BLUESNAP’S embedded payment technology has been integrated with UK-based Simpler’s checkout-as-a-service platform and now accounts for 50% of Simpler’s total revenue from payments. Simpler customers are emerging mid-market e-commerce businesses, primarily in Europe. Bluesnap Embedded Payments supports merchant acceptance in the UK and 20 markets in the European Union. Payroc owns Bluesnap.

ZILCH, which offers buy now, pay later and a virtual Visa card payment service in the UK and US, will utilize its processing relationship with Thredd to enable agent-initiated payments for its cardholders. Thredd is a member of Visa’s Agentic Ready Program. Cardholders can ask an AI agent to find a product. The agent returns a recommendation and receives instructions to complete the transaction. A Visa Payment Passkey confirms the cardholder’s intent through biometric authentication.

ENZA has been awarded a Payment Service Provider Enhanced license from the Bank of Ghana. The company provides payment gateway, POS and ATM acquiring processing, fraud detection and other services.

MOBEY FORUM’S Fraud Expert Group has published Rethinking Fraud in a Connected World: Trust Collaboration and Resilience in the Digital Ecosystem. The report explores how fraud is evolving beyond traditional banking threats and why stronger cross-industry collaboration across industries is becoming essential.

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PayPal’s global payment infrastructure is being used by Germany-based Shopware, an open-source e-commerce platform in a service called Shopware Payments. Merchants can onboard through PayPal business accounts and activate and manage payments directly within Shopware. PayPal will provide checkout support for cards, digital wallets, BNPL options, Venmo and PayPal Pay Later.

CROSS RIVER will provide agentic commerce infrastructure to support Stripe’s card issuing capabilities. Stripe issuers will receive payment credentials for their AI commerce that connects an authorization, amount, merchant and context to both the end user and the agent acting on their behalf. When an agent makes a purchase, a connected wallet will issue a restricted, single-use card that does not access the customer’s underlying payment details. Stripe will enable fully programmable card issuance through an API.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES has signed a long-term partnership with buy now, pay later specialist Klarna. That company’s flexible payment options will be available later this year when customers are booking on Southwest.com and in the Southwest app. Southwest carried more than 134 million customers in 2025, more nonstop domestic travelers than any other US airline.

ELAVON, the 5th largest merchant acquirer in the US and a wholly owned subsidiary of US Bank, has launched a partnership with Wix, the cloud-based web development platform provider. Wix will be integrated with Elavon Business Solutions, which provides payment and vertical-specific software in a single platform.

THE EUROPEAN PAYMENTS COUNCIL (EPC), which manages the rules for payment acceptance in the 41 countries in the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), has admitted PayPal In Europe. PayPal holds a banking license in Luxembourg and is a regulated credit institution. More than 25% of PayPal’s global customer base of users and merchants are in Europe.

BANISI, a private bank in Panama that serves 90,000 individual and corporate customers, will move its Visa debit card portfolio to the cloud-native processing-as-a-service platform of Argentina-based Pomelo. Pomelo raised $60 million in a Series C funding round in January 2026.

ARAB FINANCIAL SERVICES has signed a memorandum of understanding with UAE-based Ajman Bank to promote opportunities for corporate banking, merchant acquiring, card issuing and other payment services.

SUMUP, which provides card acceptance and commerce services to more than
4 million small merchants in 38 markets worldwide, has launched in Canada. The company will offer Canada’s 1 million small businesses its pocket-sized card reader product as well as payment links, which provide the ability to create and send secure links via text, email or social networks used to receive card payments.

NUVEI, which provides local merchant acquiring services in 53 markets, has completed a live agentic commerce transaction in partnership with Visa and Arvato Systems. Visa Agentic Ready tokenization and network-level controls were used in the proof of concept (POC). Arvato Systems is a global IT service provider that proved transactions could be completed inside the agent rather than on the merchant site. Cardholders from Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Bank Leumi, Cal, Max and Bank of Cyprus were part of the POC.

FEEDZAI, which provides protection against fraud and scams, identity verification and anti-money laundering compliance services, has launched Feedzai IQ Score, which give banks real-time access to anonymized, aggregated insights from the company’s global transaction network via API. Network-derived fraud risk scoring is particularly useful to regional and midsized financial institutions that lack the internal data volume or AI resources to build sophisticated fraud models in-house.

ACI WORLDWIDE’S real-time payment processing will be used by Rabobank in the Netherlands to migrate its existing iDeal online payment service to Wero transactions. Wero is the European Payments Initiative (EPI)-backed real-time account-to-account payment service in the European Union. Dutch banks processed 1.5 billion iDeal transactions in 2025—70% of all online transactions in the country. The migration is expected to be completed by the end of 2027. Rabobank is a shareholder in EPI.

KLARNA has provided more than $91.3 billion in credit to US consumers who have used its buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment options since entering the US market in 2019. The Sweden-based company has submitted applications to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions for an industrial bank charter. Currently, Klarna opens BNPL accounts in partnership with Utah-based WebBank. Klarna has had a banking license in Sweden since 2017 that gives it access to all countries in Europe. The US is Klarna’s top market.

SARDINE and INFINITE have completed a two-way integration that combines Sardine’s real-time fraud and risk intelligence platform with Infinite’s AI-native compliance and payment platform built for stablecoin transactions.  Customers will be able to incorporate Sardine’s device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, transaction data and other risk signals directly into compliance workflows.

Odynn, which provides companies with turnkey infrastructure to launch embedded travel and loyalty experiences, has integrated with Atomic, which offers Uplink, an on-device browser automation platform. Uplink connects users to airline and hotel accounts directly on their own device. Credentials never pass through an external server. Odynn offers its clients customizable travel portals, side-by-side points and cash pricing on flights and hotels and more.

HSBC QATAR will offer its commercial customers card acceptance and digital payment services in partnership with local licensed payment infrastructure provider Noqoody.

PPRO will provide more than 30 local payment methods to PayPal’s international checkout service. Among the local payment methods added are Swish in Sweden, MB Way in Portugal, Blik in Poland and Pix in Brazil. Other companies that connect to Ppro include Stripe and Citi.

PAYDO, which holds Electronic Money Institution licenses in the UK, Malta and Canada, offers merchants card processing acceptance services as well as access to more than 350 alternative payment methods. The company has launched a suite of crypto-to-fiat payment capabilities for online merchants, including acceptance of stablecoins for payment at checkout. Merchants can also send stablecoins globally from fiat balances without holding the assets on their balance sheets.

SQUARE, which provides card acceptance and commerce services to more than 4.5 million merchants in 8 countries, offers eligible sellers a ChatGPT app and Claude plugin to support agentic commerce. No additional work, setup or fees are required. Eligible sellers are live immediately. Square is also working with Amazon to bring Alexa+ voice commerce to its customers.

THREDD and SUTTON BANK are partners for debit and prepaid card programs in the US. Sutton will provide BIN sponsorship for fintech and embedded finance use cases. Thredd will provide card issuer processing and related support services.