18:49:53 (UTC) 11-05-2025
Butter Payments names Sonali Sambhus as Chief Technology Officer
18:48:38 (UTC) 11-05-2025
Ripple announces $500M strategic investment led by Fortress, Citadel Securities
18:47:06 (UTC) 11-05-2025
U.S. Bank launches Split™ World Mastercard®
18:44:57 (UTC) 11-05-2025
VGS offers 3DS via single API to reduce fraud, lift online payment approval rates
17:37:51 (UTC) 11-05-2025
TRUSTECH 2025 coming to Paris, December 2 – 4
17:31:11 (UTC) 11-05-2025
AI agents set to transform how Americans shop, $261B online spend predicted
17:27:04 (UTC) 11-05-2025
The one thing 56% of businesses say is holding back their expansion
17:21:18 (UTC) 11-05-2025
RS2 reveals how banks can thrive in era of embedded B2B finance
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Court backs Fed's refusal to let fintech access payment rails
A federal appeals court dealt a blow to crypto banks seeking access to the Federal Reserve's payment rails. In a two-to-one decision the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Denver, affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming that the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City had the authority to deny a request by Custodia, a crypto bank, for a so-called master account with the Reserve Bank.
Gone are the days when changes in shopping and payment trends were slow to take shape. It took generations for electronic funds transfers to displace the billions of checks written each year by Americans.
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US Conference 2026: The Super ATM: Facilitating Market Convergence
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This week's featured contributor:
Jay Myers runs Bold Commerce with his co-founders Stefan Maynard, Eric Boisjoli and Yvan Boisjoli. Bold Commerce has 20+ apps designed to help ecommerce entrepreneurs make more money online and serves over 100,000 entrepreneurs.
November 3rd, 2025
This week on the Merchant Sales Podcast, James Shepherd revisits a topic many thought was long gone — leasing. With today’s advanced and often expensive POS hardware, leasing is once again becoming a smart tool for ISOs and agents to close deals and increase adoption.
James sits down with Robert Ensminger to discuss modern leasing strategies, real-world use cases, and how to position leasing as part of a profitable merchant services offering. They break down what’s changed, what still works, and how agents can use leasing to drive portfolio growth.
After the interview, James and Patti Murphy tackle this week’s top headlines in their Today in Payments segment.
Company profile from GS240602
OptConnect began life in 2000 as a Grant Victor company, providing cellular routers for ATMs. After years of selling routers as ATM accessories, the company expanded into other markets and established OptConnect LLC in 2009, a global wireless connectivity provider that offers a range of cellular connectivity options, from self-managed to fully managed solutions. Chris Baird, president and CEO of OptConnect, said the company is focused on simplifying connectivity. "One size doesn't fit all, especially when it comes to cellular connectivity," he said, adding that OptConnect provides IoT project expertise, resources and support.