Newswire Summaries
Digital Commerce Bank the first bank in Canada to launch Interac e-Transfer cards
Monday, November 17, 2025 18:03:43 (UTC)
Nov 17, 2025 12:37 PM Eastern Standard Time CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Commerce Bank (“DCBank”) proudly announces the launch of Interac e-Transfer® Cards as the first bank to bring this new and innovative product to market, allowing Canadians to bring creativity, personality, and meaning to the simple act of sending money. Integration of this new feature into web or mobile-based products is simple using DCBank’s APIs, online banking portal or digital wallets. Somet...
Payments+Partnerships welcomes Senior Consultant Bhavna Kaushal
Monday, November 17, 2025 18:01:11 (UTC)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 17, 2025—Payments+Partnerships is pleased to announce that Bhavna Kaushal has joined the firm as Engagement Lead and Senior Consultant. Kaushal brings more than 20 years of experience driving innovation across financial services, fintech, and loyalty. Her leadership has spanned strategic partnerships, digital transformation, and cross-border market expansion. Prior to joining Payments+Partnerships, Kaushal led a transformative digitization mandate an...
Alkami a winner of Tearsheet’s Best Banking-as-a-Service Platform award
Monday, November 17, 2025 17:59:16 (UTC)
September 12, 2025 (Plano, Texas) – Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) (“Alkami”), a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., today announced it has been named the 2025 winner of Tearsheet’s Best Banking-as-a-Service Platform award. Tearsheet’s premier awards program, The Big Bank Theory Awards, recognizes and celebrates innovation in banking and embedded finance, while acknowledging excellence in customer experience, digital banking, and ...
92% of enterprise merchants hit by payments outages, BR-DGE finds
Monday, November 17, 2025 17:34:18 (UTC)
Edinburgh. 17th November 2025: Nine in 10 (92%) enterprise e‑commerce merchants have experienced payment outages or disruption in the past two years, according to new research from independent payment orchestration provider BR‑DGE. Half say those failures cost between £1.1 million and £10 million in lost revenue, while more than half (54%) reveal payment limitations have held back growth plans. Checkout failures hit revenue first. Acceptance rates fall, abandonment increases and custome...
Vyntra launches real time payment app protection
Monday, November 17, 2025 17:32:06 (UTC)
Yverdon, Vaud, Switzerland, Nov. 17, 2025—Vyntra, a global leader in transaction intelligence, has launched its Payment App Protection, a new solution designed to stop money mule activity and payment fraud in real time. The launch comes as mobile payment applications increasingly become a channel for illicit activity, from peer-to-peer scams and fake goods listings to account takeovers and social engineering attacks. Vyntra’s Payment App Protection delivers an advanced approach to fraud d...
2025 holiday profits at risk from friendly fraud, warns Chargebacks911
Monday, November 17, 2025 17:29:57 (UTC)
TAMPA, Fla. — Each year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday spark a global sales frenzy, with the latter being the biggest online shopping day on record in 2024. According to Adobe’s online shopping forecast for the 2025 holiday season, online sales in the U.S. alone are expected to surpass $250 billion this year. But according to Chargebacks911, a global leader in dispute resolution and chargeback prevention, the projected increase in online sales will also open the gates to the most aggressive...
Americans likely to tighten their belts this holiday season
Friday, November 14, 2025 18:07:45 (UTC)
NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- According to The Conference Board Holiday Spending Survey, the average US consumer intends to spend $990 on holiday-related purchases in 2025. That's down 6.9% from $1063 in 2024 and close to holiday spending intentions in 2023 ($985), but lower than in 2022 ($1,006) and 2021 ($1,022). Consumers intend to spend $650 on gifts this year, down 3.9% from $677 last year and the lowest since 2022. Meanwhile, budgets for non-gift items—including food, deco...
Washington Trust adds Clover to its business banking services
Friday, November 14, 2025 18:02:38 (UTC)
WESTERLY, R.I., Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington Trust has added Clover technology to its business banking solutions, giving merchants more tools to run their business and greater options for accepting credit cards and other digital payments from customers more securely. Businesses can sign up to use Clover's all-in-one business operating system, which provides products specifically designed to make financial transactions in restaurants, services, and retail settings more convenient for...
PhotonPay joins Circle's Arc Public Testnet
Friday, November 14, 2025 18:01:43 (UTC)
HONG KONG, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PhotonPay, an AI-powered financial infrastructure provider, has officially joined Circle's Arc public testnet, an open, developer-friendly Layer-1 blockchain network designed to bring real-world economic activity onchain and evolve into the next-generation Economic Operating System (OS) for the internet. Working alongside leading innovators in global payments, technology, and fintech, this initiative represents a major stride toward building open, prog...
Paymentology brings PayCredit to APAC
Friday, November 14, 2025 17:59:07 (UTC)
Singapore 14 November - Paymentology, the global issuer-processor powering digital-first banks and fintechs, is rolling out PayCredit across Asia Pacific. The advanced credit ledger unifies card issuing and credit logic on a single platform, enabling financial institutions to launch tailored credit products faster, with region-specific configuration and precise control over repayment terms. Flexible credit is surging across Asia Pacific, but legacy infrastructure isn’t keeping pace. In Si...