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Breaking News articles for September 2026
Visa boosts A2A payment fraud prevention
Thursday, September 03, 2026
A key drawback of account-to-account payments, vis-à-vis card payments, has been the lack of robust chargeback and dispute resolution protections. Once a consumer authorizes their bank to send an instant A2A payment, say to a merchant, they don't have much recourse if they input the wrong recipient or account information, or if the other person is a fraudster.
Visa and Bluefin simplify card-present acceptance
Tuesday, September 01, 2026
Visa and Bluefin are collaborating on a unified card-present payment acceptance offering designed to help merchants, software providers and enterprise organizations deploy secure in-person payments with less technical complexity.