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Visa and Mastercard Announce AI Commerce Initiatives

Visa and Mastercard are developing tools to enable agentic commerce. Visa and Mastercard have shared new details about initiatives they are working on to support the advancement of AI-powered commerce, also known as “agentic commerce.” …

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Origins of the Discover Card

How Discover got started and evolved into the card brand it is today. While there is much speculation about how Discover Financial Services’ recent acquisition by Captial One Financial Corporation will impact the payments ecosystem, …

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Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) Updates

Visa has made New Changes to its Fraud and Chargeback Monitoring Programs. Effective June 1st, Visa implemented changes to the Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) launched in April. The information in this blog reflects the …

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Regulatory Update Spring 2025

The latest regulatory news pertaining to payments. The payments industry is constantly in flux, with a number of regulatory bodies affecting the landscape. Here are the latest updates concerned with those regulatory efforts. House Members …

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Regulators Approve Capital One Acquisition of Discover

Capital One approved to acquire Discover for $35 billion. On April 18th, the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency approved Capital One Financial Corporation’s $35 billion acquisition of Discover …

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Global Payments to Acquire Worldpay

A major acquisition set to change the payments landscape. On April 17th, Global Payments announced that it is acquiring Worldpay for $24.25 billion in a three-way deal with Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and private …

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