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ORDWAY provides a billing and revenue management platform used by businesses that operate with recurring revenue streams or usage-based pricing. The company has launched Ordway Payments, which unifies billing and payments in a single, integrated application. The app brings together credit card  and ACH processing, dispute resolution, refunds and exception items and cash applications for payments, including wires and checks.

EXPENSIFY, provider to businesses of an app that delivers real-time spend visibility, autocategorization and receipt matching, spend controls and more, has expanded its Expensify Card product into the UK, Spain, Ireland, Poland and the Netherlands. The Visa card is issued by Transact Payments Malta. In the US, Expensify Visa cards are issued by
The Bancorp Bank.

VISA has refreshed its Visa Infinite suite of upscale card products available to issuers in the Asia-Pacific region. Rewards tied to Visa Infinite, Visa Infinite Privilege and Visa Infinite Private  products prioritize cultural immersion and curated immersive experiences over traditional luxury. Visa Infinite Private is an invitation-only product.

RAMP, a provider of spend management and commercial card financial infrastructure to 70,000+ organizations, has launched AI Token Spend Management, which helps finance teams track, optimize and control AI token and subscription spending across providers. The product connects usage to cost and identifies savings opportunities.

PAYPAL’S global payment infrastructure is being used by Germany-based Shopware, in open-source ecommerce platform-as-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.

ADYEN enables card, digital wallet (Apple Pay and Google Pay) and domestic Pix payments at Tap Air Portugal service desks in two airports in Brazil. By choosing Pix, customers can pay in Brazilian reais and avoid potential currency fluctuations between the time of purchase and payment of a credit card statement. Tap Air benefits from faster access to funds.

SPREEDLY, which processes more than $60 billion in gross merchandise
volume annually through an open payments platform, offers a secure
vault that merchants can use to store and control their own payment credentials without the need for a full orchestration platform. The vault can be used for network tokenization, account updating and stored credentials, which are used to improve authorization rates. Spreedly clients include Adidas, the
New York Times and Priceline.

FIS is a financial technology company that operates systems that clear payments, move money and run core banking for thousands of institutions worldwide. The company is using the Claude Mythos 5 restricted-access large language AI model to scan and evaluate its own security systems as part of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing.

ZAMTEL MONEY, the government-owned mobile financial services
platform used in the Republic of Zambia to send, receive and store money, has integrated with a network of POS terminals operated by government-owned Zanaco, the largest commercial bank in the country.

KORA, a Nigeria-based payment infrastructure provider, has integrated with the IATA Financial Gateway (IFG). More than 370 airlines gain access to Kora’s pan-African payment capabilities. Through a single integration, airlines can accept payments and make payouts across multiple channels, including cards, bank transfers, mobile money and pay with bank.

PAYABLI will provide its embedded payments infrastructure technology to ID Plans, which provides a suite of products to customers in the commercial real estate industry under the ID Tenant brand. ID Tenant enables tenants to make full or partial payments. Property owners will have full visibility in the same system they use to execute leases, store documents and manage tenant relationships.

MATERA, provider of cloud-native technology that financial institutions deploy to modernize their payment systems, has launched payment QR code software, which lets financial institutions, payment providers and billers deliver interoperable account-to-account payments across FedNow, Zelle, RTP, ACH credit transfers and other networks. The software is compliant with the new Ansi X9.150-2026 merchant-presented payment QR code standard. Payment codes
can be embedded on printed and digital invoices, restaurant bills, online
checkout pages or displayed at the point of sale. Consumers scan the QR code from within their mobile banking app.

A-COMM TECHNOLOGIES builds infrastructure for agentic commerce.
sThe company’s A-Comm Evidence Protocol (AEP) is available for public comment through August 14, 2026, at aep.a-comm.ai. AEP provides observability into what an agent did and why, traceability from a consumer’s intent to settlement and auditability that any third party can rely on in a dispute. The protocol is open-source under Apache 2.0 with no fees or lock in. Angel investors in the company include executives from Amex, Mastercard, Visa, Citi and Wells Fargo.

ICS, the payment card subsidiary of Netherland’s-based ABN Amro Bank, ranked 35th largest among credit card issuers in Europe based on annual purchase volume of $7.66 billion in 2025. The company will convert card account processing support for its 2.6 million clients to Worldline beginning in the second quarter of 2028. ICS will eliminate 450 jobs with the outsourcing.

MANIFEST FINANCIAL, which provides an embedded banking and financial operating system designed for the creator economy, has launched the Manifest Business Debit Mastercard. The card features Mastercard provided services, including a global business loyalty program, educational resources, fraud monitoring and ID protection and access to the Priceless platform. The card is issued by MVB Bank.

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 fingerprint or facial biometric authentication.

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.