Dave Finances covers payments companies, digital wallets, card networks, remittances, cross-border payments, stablecoin payments, payment infrastructure, and financial technology partnerships. Our coverage focuses on product launches, regulation, market expansion, payment innovation, and developments shaping how consumers and businesses move money.
Visa's Oct. 24 CE3.0 update lets qualifying fraud disputes use prior transactions from multiple merchants, while device ID and fingerprint can no longer count as two distinct evidence elements.
Mastercard specialty-merchant fees of 0.10% plus $0.02 per qualifying purchase reached Europe on Oct. 1; the same fees began earlier in other regions.
Eight developments involving PayPay, x402, Paraloom, Vultisig, Monero, dLocal, PawaPay and Xendit have exposed weaknesses in payment authentication, cryptocurrency transactions and financial infrastructure, raising fresh questions about transaction reliability and…
The answer changed between August and October 2026 India’s UPI debate was still about proposed powers in August 2026. The Ministry of Finance said on August 8 that users would…
Visa’s October 2026 preparatory approval changes the legal contest. It does not yet change the payment habits that determine whether a foreign network can win meaningful domestic volume. A new…
Paysafe’s paysafecard payment API remained degraded on October 23, 2026, more than two days after the payments company identified the root cause of a disruption affecting merchant payments, payouts and…
SoFi says SOFIE tokenized deposits will offer 4.4% APY with FDIC protection within limits, while conversion to SoFiUSD creates a separate non-insured stablecoin holding.
Paysafe’s paysafecard payment API disruption extended beyond 20 hours on October 21, 2026, with the payments company still working on a fix six hours after identifying the incident’s root cause.…
MoonPay and Upbit operator Dunamu will explore cross-border stablecoin payments, corporate treasury services and global distribution for GIWA, with no product launch confirmed.
Flutterwave reported separate Ghana collection-account, Nigeria bank-transfer and POS agent withdrawal disruptions within 58 minutes on October 19.