Payments Dive

Visa and Mastercard have settled the final interchange fee claims from a group of about five dozen merchants in recent weeks in an antitrust case that had been set for trial this month. The last merchant settlement came this week as Circle K parent Alimentation Couche-Tard resolved its damage claims against the networks in a New York case that dates to June 2013.

DailyPay is drawing on its ties to employers as one key reason a state judge should dismiss a New York lawsuit against the earned wage access provider. DailyPay is “fundamentally different” from EWA companies that offer their services directly to consumers, the company wrote in its April 3 reply to a brief from the New York Attorney General opposing DailyPay’s January motion to dismiss the case.

An article from Dive Brief Digital wallets are driving a migration of more expensive purchases from desktop to mobile devices, a Stripe report found. Published April 13, 2026 Getty Images Dive Brief: U.S. web shoppers are making more higher-priced purchases via mobile devices, a trend well established among consumers in other parts of the world, Stripe said in a report last week on checkout trends.

Priya Lakshminarayanan is the chief product officer at the subscription management and billing platform company Recurly. She is based in the San Francisco Bay area. When the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Adobe last month over its subscription cancellation practices, the reaction in payments and software as a service circles was predictably split. Critics of regulatory overreach argued it was government meddling in private commercial relationships.

As the use of stablecoins expands globally, they’ll become part of a hybrid payment model that mixes old rails with cryptocurrencies, investment professionals from a venture capital group said during a payment discussion last week. Stablecoins will find their place in payments depending on where they make the most sense for a transaction, a panel of financial industry professionals from QED Investors said.

An Illinois law that prohibits interchange levies on sales tax and gratuities doesn’t interfere with banks’ or card networks’ ability to set fees, the state’s attorney general said Friday in defending the law before an appellate court.

Managing purchasing across multiple locations shouldn’t require spreadsheets, manual approvals, or fragmented payment workflows. From office supplies to critical operational goods, Order.co is helping businesses centralize procurement, automate spend controls and simplify the way teams buy what they need. As Order.co scaled to support hundreds of customers and thousands of vendors, they needed payments infrastructure that could keep up.

As retailers seek point-of-sale systems to integrate various sales channels, a retail technology firm founded by Walmart technology alums has created a demonstration lab that allows merchants to test multiple POS vendors’ wares. Kitestring Technical Services aims for its innovation laboratory to be a vendor-neutral testing and demonstration site for retailers to evaluate POS equipment in the market. The lab currently has seven software and 14 hardware vendors.

Buy now, pay later providers “cause disproportionate harm to marginalized communities,” the civil rights activist Al Sharpton said in a letter to the attorneys general of states leading an inquiry into industry practices. In December, the attorneys general of seven states led by Connecticut and North Carolina requested information from a half dozen BNPL providers, including Affirm Holdings and Klarna Group, about their loans and other business practices.

An article from Dive Brief The retailer is tapping the card network and U.S. Bank for two new credit cards aimed at small business owners. Published March 31, 2026 An Amazon office building in 2023 in Sunnyvale, Calif. Getty Images Dive Brief: Amazon has selected U.S. Bank and Mastercard’s network for two new credit cards targeting small businesses, ditching American Express after an eight-year partnership, the retail behemoth said Tuesday in a press release.