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Ecommpay adds Klarna's full set of pay-later options for its merchants
Ecommpay merchants can now offer Klarna's pay-in-full, pay-in-3, pay-in-4, pay-in-30-days and financing options through one integration.
Forter launches an engine to verify AI shopping agents and run headless agent checkout
Forter's Agentic Commerce Engine separates legitimate AI shopping agents from bots and lets merchants set rules for agent-driven checkout.
agentic-commercefraud-preventioncheckoutai-agentsforter13 Oct 2026Launch13 Oct 2026LaunchChina's central bank lets Visa start preparing a domestic card clearing business
The PBOC approved Visa's application to prepare a domestic bankcard clearing operation, a first step toward processing China's local card payments.
visachinacard-clearingunionpaymarket-access13 Oct 2026Regulation13 Oct 2026RegulationNPCI formally defers India's 0.4% UPI merchant fee until after Diwali
The 0.4% charge on larger UPI merchant payments will no longer start on 15 October; NPCI will set a new post-Diwali date.
upimerchant-discount-rateindianpcifees13 Oct 2026Regulation13 Oct 2026RegulationVisa widens Compelling Evidence 3.0 for card-absent fraud disputes from 24 October
From 24 October, merchants fighting Visa 10.4 fraud disputes can use prior purchases from other merchants and token matches, with limits in pre-arbitration.
chargebackscompelling-evidencefriendly-fraudvisadisputes12 Oct 2026Scheme12 Oct 2026SchemeVisa and Mastercard class settlement has now paid US merchants about $631.7m
Nearly 690,000 US merchants have been paid from the $5.5bn interchange damages fund, and a hearing on the separate rules settlement is set for next month.
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FIS and Ericsson pre-integrate a wallet stack for organisations launching digital money services
FIS is combining its payments and issuing capabilities with the Ericsson Fintech Platform so that telcos, enterprises and financial institutions can stand up wallet-led services without wiring the pieces together themselves.
France's structured e-invoicing mandate starts, and every business must now be able to receive
From 1 September 2026 every business established in France must be able to receive structured electronic invoices through an accredited platform. Large and mid-sized companies must also issue them and file e-reporting data from the same date.
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MAS opens consultation on writing its stablecoin framework into the Payment Services Act
Singapore's central bank has published draft legislative amendments that would put single-currency stablecoin issuance under the Payment Services Act 2019, with licensing, par redemption and reserve requirements attached to the label "MAS-regulated stablecoin". Comments close 16 October 2026.
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Jack Henry confirms a vishing-led breach of its corporate network
The US core banking and payments vendor says attackers reached an internal, non-production environment through a voice-phishing call and took personal data belonging to fewer than ten of its 7,200 client institutions. Core platforms and daily processing were not touched.
core-bankingvishingdata-breachunited-statesJack Henry & Associates02 Sept 2026Incident02 Sept 2026Incident
Visa folds Featurespace scoring into its A2A fraud service for banks
Visa has rebuilt A2A Protect around a single fraud score drawn from Featurespace models, aimed at stopping account-to-account scams before a transfer is authorised. It is the first Featurespace-derived capability Visa has put into the market since buying the company.
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Douglas turns on Klarna at Dutch checkouts
The beauty retailer has added Klarna as a payment option in the Netherlands, online and in store, taking the partnership to thirteen markets.
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