Explore how Base I, the first real-time credit card authorization system, revolutionized transactions and paved the way for modern electronic payments.

Visa’s payment ecosystem risk and control group issued a report last week that analyzed fraud through the first half of 2025 to distill patterns in how criminals are using artificial intelligence and ...

South Korean payments processor BC Card has completed a pilot that allowed foreign users to pay local merchants using stablecoins, marking one of the clearest ...

Last October Italy’s new right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, chose card fees as one of her early targets. Her quarrel was with charges levied on card payments that go to processors, networks ...

In a recent article, the chairman of a credit card industry coalition expressed his members’ worst fear about bringing competition to who gets to process trillions of dollars in transactions each year ...

When people say “credit card company” they may be referring to either an issuer or a network. The issuer is the bank or credit union that lends you money every time you use your credit card. The ...