A federal judge in Chicago dealt a blow to efforts to eighty-six an Illinois law that would prohibit interchange fee assessments on sales tax and tip portions of card transactions. The Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, signed into law in 2024, had been set to take effect last July. But the state postponed enactment for a year while a banking industry challenge played out in federal district court.

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As payment environments grow more complex and real-time expectations rise, many enterprises still lack a clear, end-to-end view of their transactions. In this Q&A, Navdeep Sidhu, CEO of meshIQ, discusses why traditional monitoring tools fall short in modern payment ecosystems and how fragmented visibility creates hidden operational and compliance risks.

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Payfinia, a payment services firm with an open payments framework, teamed with Deluxe to enable ISVs to offer access to Paze, the digital wallet developed by Early Warning Services, the bank-owned consortium behind person-to-person payment network Zelle.

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In this Q&A, Shiv Agarwal, CEO of VARStreet, a provider of business management software designed specifically for VARs, discusses how buyer expectations around invoicing, approvals and payment flexibility are reshaping reseller ecommerce.

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A prolonged winter deep freeze dampened small business sales in January, as severe weather reduced store traffic and consumers pulled back after a heavy holiday spending season. Fiserv's Small Business Index, released Feb. 3, 2026, showed the impact was most pronounced in in-person transactions, signaling a customary post-holiday slowdown exacerbated by extreme weather conditions.

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The ACH network charted record growth in 2025, in both transaction volume and dollars cleared. Nacha reported the network was used to move 35.2 billion payments, a 5 percent increase over 2024. The value of transactions cleared totaled $93 trillion, an 8 percent year-over-year increase.

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As fraud against public sector programs accelerates and government services move increasingly online, agencies are under mounting pressure to verify identities quickly without creating friction for legitimate users.

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Cryptocurrency payments are moving into the mainstream with nearly four in 10 (39 percent) of merchants now accepting cryptocurrencies at the point of sale, according to research just released by the nonprofit National Cryptocurrency Association and PayPal. What's more, nearly four out of five merchants (84 percent) believe crypto will become commonplace within the next five years.

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