Industry News

PayXpert, an omnichannel payment processing subsidiary of France-based Societe Generale, will offer JCB card acceptance to its merchants in Europe. There are 169 million JCB cardholders, most are in Asia.

Curve is a UK-based provider of a wallet that enables cardholders to switch a purchase from one card issuer to another subsequent to the time of purchase and split payments between cards. More than six million people in the UK and European Economic Area use the Curve Wallet, which also offers rewards and real-time spending insights. The company has added Curve Pay on iOS, an iPhone NFC interface, to add spending options for iPhone users who previously were locked in to Apple Pay. Curve Pay recently launched an NFC interface for Android devices.

Sinch technology enables businesses to transform one-way mobile alerts into two-way, purposeful conversations with customers. Examples include facilitating a co-pay, accepting a delivery, completing a purchase and confirming a flight change. The company has formed a partnership with Authvia, the company behind Text2pay, to bring digital conversations to mobile payments within messaging channels such as SMS, RCS and WhatsApp.

Netopia Payments has become the first card processor in the world to implement Click to Pay with Passkey FIDO (Fast Identity Online).  The company, the largest processor in Romania, worked with Mastercard to achieve the certification, which is built on EMV standards. Click to Pay eliminates the need to manually enter payment card numbers or one-time authentication codes at a merchant’s checkout page. Passkey authentication incorporates fingerprint or facial recognition biometrics.

Airwallex merchants in Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US can now accept payments from Discover and Diners Club cards. More than 150,000 businesses worldwide use Airwallex services including payments, treasury, spend management and embedded finance.

Equifax has launched B2bConnect, which makes commercial marketing data on 67 million US-based small and midsized businesses available on the Equifax Cloud. The platform enables filtering and list-building features, including demographics, business contacts, firmographics, marketability and industry codes, for lead generation to target prospects.

Albertsons Companies, a leading food and drug retailer in the United States which includes Safeway, Albertsons, ACME, Vons and other banner stores, will offer Trevipay’s Pay by Invoice to its business customers. Trevipay’s B2B payments and invoicing network will provide a dedicated line of credit to Albertsons Cos.’ clients for online grocery purchases with 30-day net terms. Additionally, customers will receive a self-service portal to assign spending limits to approved purchasers and real time tracking of invoices.

Visa and Mastercard have prevailed in litigation against plaintiffs who brought an antitrust suit against the card networks claiming that they conspired to fix interchange fees. The case originated in California state court in 2022 but was consolidated into multi district federal litigation in the Eastern District of New York. Judge Margo Brodie ruled May 12, 2025 that the plaintiffs, who were residents of California,  had not identified any facts that she had overlooked in her December 2024 ruling that denied their claims. At that time, she ruled that they didn’t have antitrust standing nor that they were directly harmed by any alleged interchange fee conspiracy.

Yondr Money, an Australia-based banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform provider, has signed an exclusive a principal issuing deal with Mastercard for debit and prepaid cards. Modules available from Kobble, Yondr Money’s platform, deliver cards-as-a-service, wallets-as-a-service, payments-as-a-service and other financial services.

Perpay, a company focused on providing financial products to consumers who have nonprime credit scores, has launched the Perpay Credit Card. The unsecured Mastercard product links directly to a cardholder’s paycheck to automatically pay card balances, which helps improve credit scores. Celtic Bank is the card issuer. Marqeta handles card account processing, related support services and rewards.

CPI, the largest US-based payment card manufacturer and the fourth largest worldwide, has acquired Arroweye Solutions, a payment card provider that focuses on personalization and instant issuance, including digital cards. The company’s production capabilities eliminate the need for customers to hold inventory and allows for rapid turnaround times. CPI paid $45.6 million in cash.

U.S. Payment Forum has released a white paper, “Optimizing EMV Testing and Certification: Automation Strategies for Streamlining Payment Acceptance.” The white paper is available for download, free of charge, on the U.S. Forum’s website. for your free download click here.

DLocal will provide access to payment processing as well as local payment methods in more than 40 emerging markets to global customers of PayPal Enterprise Payments (formerly Braintree). The markets are in Latin America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

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Chargeflow has added ChargeFlow Connect to its chargeback automation system for online commerce. Chargeflow Connect enables payment providers, payment facilitators, ISOs and fraud prevention platforms to offer merchants natively-integrated, end-to-end chargeback automation, alerts and insights. Data security certification includes SOC 2 Type II. The technology is GDPR compliant. More than 15,000 merchants worldwide use Chargeflow technology.

Electronic Merchant Systems (EMS) will offer its US merchants Tap to Pay on iPhone through an integration with Paysley, provider of a mobile payment platform. Merchants can accept in-person payments from credit cards, debit cards and Apple Pay using their iPhone and the Paysley app.  EMS serves more than 30,000 in-store, online and omnichannel merchants. Paysley also supports invoicing, inventory management and online marketing campaigns.

Samsung Electronics America will add a Tap to Transfer feature to the Samsung Wallet to support peer-to-peer money transfers in the US. The feature leverages contactless-enabled Visa or Mastercard debit cards stored in the wallet. No additional app is needed. Funds availability is supported by Green Dot Bank.

Deluxe will provide merchants that use its payment processing service with end-to-end accounts payable (AP) processing support, from invoice capture through final payment, leveraging an integration with Square 9.

BigCommerce, provider of an open SaaS ecommerce platform used by brands, retailers, manufacturers and distributers in 150 countries, has selected Klarna as a preferred partner for flexible payments. Klarna will offer Pay in 4 for purchases that buyers can split into four interest-free payments. Also available will be Fair Financing, installment payment plans that buyers can use to finance larger purchases. There are more than 93 million Klarna users worldwide. The company handles 2.9 million transactions a day.

Brite Payments’ open banking-based A-2-A real time payments technology will be offered to e-commerce merchants in Germany by Oxid eSales, which represents more than 100 companies that sell to online shops.

PAYPAL will launch a contactless mobile wallet for in-store payments in Germany this summer. The app will support iOS and Android devices. The PayPal app will also allow consumers to pay for purchases in 3, 6, 12 and 24 months.

Adyen will use technology from Fiskil to improve merchant onboarding and account verification in Australia. Fiscal’s open banking infrastructure uses an API  to deliver real-time access to financial data at scale. Netherland-based Adyen provides a global platform to accept payments across on-line, in-person and in-app channels to clients including Spotify, eBay and Uber.  

Klarna reports that its customer base has reached 11 million consumers in the UK. Those shoppers have access to Klarna’s BNPL options at 60,000 merchants. The merchant base has doubled in the last 12 months.

Affirm’s interest-free installment and longer-term payment options will be integrated into the UATP network for merchants in the US, Canada and the UK. UATP merchants are airlines, rail carriers and travel agencies. 

CIBC, the second largest credit card issuer in Canada, has launched the no annual fee CIBC Adapta Mastercard credit card, which automatically provides 50% additional rewards points (1.5%) on a cardholder’s top three spend categories each month.

Paytweak, which offers a universal link to 500 banks and PSPs that can be used to trigger payments by email, QR code or text, has integrated with Trusty’s account-2-account service for direct bank payments. The combined service, which is SEPA-compliant, supports recurring, instant and localized payments through a single link.