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The card networks are expanding their development of accelerators for women and minority-owned businesses, improving these entrepreneurs' access to venture capital.

In addition to Ant's possible deal to buy MultiSafepay and Adyen's work with Straumur, Visa has partnered with TECH5 on government ID and Mastercard is expanding its virtual-card network through Rawbank.

Projects are underway at a number of payment firms including PayPal, Circle and Ripple. Location and regulation will also play a big role in what the market looks like in the next year.

2023 saw a recovery in ridership and signs of progress for contactless boarding. But there's still lots of work to do.

India softens stance on payment regs; a Dutch neobank turns to gen AI; and more.

Banks, payment companies, mortgage lenders and insurance providers are racing to seize an advantage from generative artificial intelligence. Some have been especially aggressive in deciding which workflows — or entire jobs — can be handed off to AI.

Visa, Mastercard and Global Payments discuss impacts on customer service, web content, security and more.

Visa, Mastercard, SAP, Circle and many other financial firms are launching digital card accounts with an emphasis on B2B clients.

Canada's government has finalized arrangements with Visa and Mastercard to cap credit card interchange for small businesses; Klarna is expanding its work with the Dutch payment processor Adyen; and more.

Companies such as Visa and Mastercard, as well as banks and retailers, are stepping up their investments in artificial intelligence to reach small businesses and spot new uses.

As the government weighs changes to interchange, Michael Miebach voiced his displeasure during the company's earnings call.

The card network integrated its data-sharing technology into products from Zip, FIS and JPMorgan Chase as potential regulations loom on the horizon.

As false credit-card disputes spike, the networks have updated policies to provide merchants and issuers with more data to combat false chargebacks.

The card network's ambition to add services has led it to work alongside companies like JPMorgan Chase, Jack Henry & Associates and Stax.

Firms like Oracle and Billtrust are betting companies with smaller, more remote teams will adopt digital transaction systems to ease the burden of paying their vendors.

The use cases for non-fungible tokens for consumer loyalty, gaming and other business purposes are expanding, while banks and payment companies step up their NFT experiments.

A real-time refund can allow travelers to quickly rebook after a cancellation, and instant credits can make longer airport waits more bearable, according to fintech experts.

Pushes for transparency on charitable donations and ghost guns, among others, were voted down.

"With ACH payments there's a latency in how they are processed; it can take two to five days. Things can happen," warns Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard.

Visa is planning a raft of changes to rules for gas stations to allow larger transactions after a surge in fuel prices across the U.S. made it hard for some drivers to fill up using credit cards.