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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Court upholds Illinois interchange prohibition

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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Online Edition – Issue 26:02:01

Agentic commerce, Part 2: Rethinking intelligence and trust

Digital assistants are hardly new to consumers and businesses. Technology-driven brands have been integrating virtual assistants, chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) systems into phones, homes and websites for decades. Each integration has taken us farther away from checkout lanes, printed receipts and plastic credit cards.

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Merchant Sales Podcast

Merchant Sales Podcast

James Shephard & Patti Murphy

February 16th, 2026

Real-Time Payments (RTP): The Future of Instant Money Movement

Real-time payments are already transforming how money moves, but most payment professionals still don’t understand the opportunity.

In this episode of the Merchant Sales Podcast, James Shepherd and Patti Murphy sit down with Jim Colassano, Senior Vice President at The Clearing House, to break down the RTP (Real-Time Payments) network and why instant money movement could reshape merchant settlement, cash flow, disbursements, and business payments. They discuss how payments can settle in seconds, why adoption is accelerating, and what ISOs and processors need to do now to stay competitive.

The episode also includes a Today in Payments segment with Patti Murphy covering major industry news, including interchange legislation, consumer spending trends, digital wallet adoption, and emerging payment innovations.

If you’re a merchant sales agent, ISO owner, or payments professional, this episode will help you understand one of the biggest infrastructure shifts happening in the payments industry today.

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Process globally with your own branded, multi-acquirer platform

In April 2020, right after a once-in-a-century earthquake roiled Croatia, Field39 was born. The founders wanted to shake up cross-border commerce with a technology suite and knowledge base where people could learn about the technologies that power financial transactions.

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