Newswire Summaries
Electronic payments industry opens revenue opportunities for SMBs this holiday season
Monday, November 17, 2025 22:20:04 (UTC)
Nov 17, 2025, 14:51 ET ETA and TSG Study Shows Modern Payment Technology Can Help Local Retailers Capture 36% More of Holiday Market WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Advances in payment technology are giving small businesses new tools to compete for holiday shoppers, according to a study released today by the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) and TSG (The Strawhecker Group). The sixth annual Consumer Holiday Spending Study found that 36% of consumers who don't typical...
Deluxe CEO Barry C. McCarthy honored by Technology Association of Georgia
Monday, November 17, 2025 18:10:40 (UTC)
Nov 14, 2025 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Deluxe President and CEO Barry C. McCarthy Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from Technology Association of Georgia MINNEAPOLIS & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deluxe (NYSE: DLX), a trusted Payments and Data company, along with the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and its 30,000 members, announce that Barry C. McCarthy has received the prestigious TAG Lifetime Achievement Award. McCarthy is only the third person to receive this distinctio...
UBS, Ant International team up on blockchain-based real-time cross-border payments
Monday, November 17, 2025 18:08:29 (UTC)
Nov 16, 2025 11:42 PM Eastern Standard Time SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UBS has entered a strategic partnership with Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, to explore innovations in blockchain-based tokenised deposits to support Ant International’s global payments settlement and liquidity management. Both parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at UBS’s flagship office at 9 Penang Road in Singapore. Under the M...
ACI Worldwide to discuss payments modernization, fraud trends at investor conferences
Monday, November 17, 2025 18:05:51 (UTC)
Nov 17, 2025 7:33 AM Eastern Standard Time Omaha, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global leader in real-time payments software serving thousands of financial institutions and merchants worldwide, will participate in three major investor conferences where executives will discuss payment modernization trends, fraud management evolution, and digital transformation across the global payments ecosystem. ACI executives will discuss payment modernization and fraud trends at...
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...
