A proposed legal settlement between Visa, Mastercard and U.S. merchants could soon change how some shoppers pay at checkout.

The 2025 holiday season saw consumers shopping across channels to land the best deals and maximize convenience, according to ...

Major payments companies see several 2026 trends beyond the much-discussed stablecoin and agentic commerce crazes.

Visa and Mastercard have agreed to a combined payment of $167.5m to resolve a class action lawsuit concerning ATM access fees.  The proposed settlement was submitted to a federal court in Washington, ...

Payments giant Visa and Mastercard are creating a payment system that will let AI agents search, compare prices, book items, ...

There are numerous reasons to love Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA). One that certainly stands out these days, though, is that both companies benefit significantly from a highly-inflationary ...

Visa/Mastercard may cut swipe fees a hair (about 0.1%), which helps stores but won’t show up as obvious price drops for shoppers Stores could get more power to favor cheaper cards and even say “no” to ...

Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc., and Discover Inc., have paused their work on a plan to track when cardholders make purchases at gun stores. The payment processing companies said Thursday they have ...