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stablecoin payments
Bitcoin & Blockchain Payments Trends

The GENIUS Act Changed Everything: How to Compete in the $2 Trillion Stablecoin Market

By Akbar Thobhani, Founder & Chairman, sFOX Cross-border payment fees are eating 1.5% to 6% of your transaction volume. Settlement takes days. Your working capital sits trapped in correspondent banking networks. Meanwhile, nimble fintech competitors are building instant, low-cost alternatives that operate 24/7. The regulatory ...
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MirrorMask impacts Stripe merchants
Credit Card & Online Fraud

Compliance Is Not Enough: MirrorMask Reveals PCI DSS and Client-Side Risk

Pedro Fortuna, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Jscrambler For anyone unfamiliar with SAQ A, it is the Self-Assessment Questionnaire A, which can be used to validate merchant compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for merchants that have fully outsourced all payment ...
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UK Data Bill
Cybersecurity Payments Trends

Decoding the UK Data Bill: What It Signals for Trust, Innovation, and Competitive Advantage

By Andreii Shevchuk, CTO & Partner, CONCRYT As the UK’s Data (Use & Access) Bill 2025 takes effect, payments businesses have an opportunity to rethink how trust, identity, and innovation intersect. The Bill marks a fundamental shift in how customer identity is verified, data is ...
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Are retailers payments-ready?
Retail

Three Key Questions To Consider for Payment Strategies in 2026 

By: Michael Jaszczyk, CEO of GK Americas The holidays are the most anticipated shopping season for both consumers and retailers. The second that coffee shops begin offering pumpkin-flavored drinks, and temperatures start to dip, US consumers pull out their wallets – and retailers are ready. However, ...
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invisible checkout
AI Payments Trends

Securing Payment Primacy in the Invisible Checkout Era

By Shawn Conahan, Chief Revenue Officer, Wildfire Systems With agentic shopping, the e-commerce shopping cart as we know it will soon disappear, along with the familiar flow of payments during checkout. This coming shift fundamentally inverts the traditional online shopping funnel. Instead of a shopper ...
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US spending drops
Buy Now Pay Later Mobile Payments

Americans Reduce Spending While Payments Behaviors Expand

By Lilah Raynor, CEO & Founder, Logica Research Americans are navigating an uneven financial landscape. Inflation, tariffs, and economic uncertainty are putting pressure on household budgets, while digital tools are reshaping everyday transactions. Recent findings from the Logica® Future of Money study show two in ...
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global OFAC screening
Cybersecurity Fraud

Signs Your Organization Needs an Automated OFAC Checking Solution

Phil Binkow, CEO of Financial Operations Networks (FONS) It’s Monday morning, and your finance team is buried under a mountain of supplier payments that need processing before the end of the day.  As part of your compliance responsibilities, every new vendor and every payment must be ...
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US consumer savings sinking
Banking Payments Research

US consumers fighting for financial security and failing

In 2025, US consumers are fighting a losing battle for financial security. Instead of building buffers, growing debt is dragging them down. Rising living costs, persistent inflation, and surging debt are eroding what little cushion remains. For global payments and FI executives, these trends could ...
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credit card doom
Fast Payments Mobile Payments

Are Physical Credit Cards Doomed?

By John Toman, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Pivot Payables A time may soon come when future generations won’t recognize physical credit cards because they’ve become obsolete. The path to their decline is already underway, as more consumers adopt contactless payments for their speed, convenience ...
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AI agent purchases
AI Fraud Payments Trends

AI Payments Are Coming Fast – But So Is Agentic Fraud

By Douglas Hall, Founder & CEO, EQUE The payments industry is entering a new chapter. AI-driven commerce – where autonomous AI agents shop on behalf of consumers – is moving from theory to reality fast. And, AI fraudsters are moving even faster. Google has unveiled ...
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