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marketwatch.com - MarketWatch Automation - Global Payments Inc. stock underperforms Thursday when compared to competitors
Global Payments Inc. stock underperforms Thursday when compared to competitors
MarketWatch

Shares of Global Payments Inc. GPN slipped 1.24% to $80.25 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.28% to 6,861.89 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling…

thehindu.com - Pti - Paytm emerges monetisation leader as merchant payments drive bulk of industry profits: Bernstein
Paytm emerges monetisation leader as merchant payments drive bulk of industry profits: Bernstein
The Hindu

India's digital payments ecosystem is moving beyond a scale-led narrative, with merchant payments emerging as the core driver of revenues and accounting for nearly three-fourths of the industry's net revenue pool, according to Bernstein's latest…

thestar.com.my - Zhang Chaoqun - Share of cashless payments in Russia hits 88 pct in 2025
Share of cashless payments in Russia hits 88 pct in 2025
The Star Online

MOSCOW, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The share of cashless payments in Russia reached 88 percent at the end of 2025, Bank of Russia's director of the National Payment System Department Alla Bakina said Thursday. She noted earlier in an interview with TASS…

futurism.com - Victor Tangermann - Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center
Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center
Futurism

The immense hype surrounding AI has caused enormous data centers to crop up across the country, triggering significant opposition. It's not just the loss of land: enormous power needs are pushing the grid into meltdown and driving up local…

zerohedge.com - Tyler Durden - Whole Foods Ditching Its 'Dystopian' Pay-By-Palm Biometric Payment Option
Whole Foods Ditching Its 'Dystopian' Pay-By-Palm Biometric Payment Option
Zero Hedge

Whole Foods Market is shutting down its palm-scan payment system nationwide, removing the devices from more than 500 stores by June 3 after shoppers largely ignored them. The chain, owned by Amazon, had pitched the feature as a frictionless way to…

thestar.com.my - Naomi Rovnick - Exclusive-A palace in Marrakesh: How Schwab moved $27.7 million in payments for Epstein days before his arrest
Exclusive-A palace in Marrakesh: How Schwab moved $27.7 million in payments for Epstein days before his arrest
The Star Online

LONDON/WASHINGTON/TORONTO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Charles Schwab wired about $27.7 million on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein ⁠to a realtor in Morocco as the disgraced financier tried to purchase a palace in the 10 days before his 2019 arrest…

mymotherlode.com - AP News - Without nationwide rules, South Carolina lawmakers move to keep college athlete payments secret
Without nationwide rules, South Carolina lawmakers move to keep college athlete payments secret
myMotherLode.com

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One by one, South Carolina senators stood up at the Statehouse this week, saying they didn't want to wade into the rules about paying college athletes, but they couldn't bear to see their Gamecocks or Tigers left behind…

channelnewsasia.com - Visa to buy payment firms Prisma, Newpay to deepen Argentina footprint
Visa to buy payment firms Prisma, Newpay to deepen Argentina footprint
CNA

19 Feb 2026 11:14PM (Updated: 20 Feb 2026 12:26AM) Feb 19: Card giant Visa said on Thursday it would buy payment platforms Prisma and Newpay from private-equity firm Advent International, bolstering its presence in Argentina. The deal links Visa's…

newswire.ca - First National Financial Corporation - FIRST NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO REDEEM PREFERRED SHARES AND PAYMENT OF FINAL QUARTERLY DIVIDEND
FIRST NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO REDEEM PREFERRED SHARES AND PAYMENT OF FINAL QUARTERLY DIVIDEND
CNW

TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2026 /CNW/ - First National Financial Corporation (the 'Company' or 'First National') (TSX: FN.PR.A) (TSX: FN.PR.B) announced today that it intends to redeem for cash all of its outstanding Class A Preference Shares, Series 1 (the…

the-sun.com - Jacob Willeford - Full list of 14 health conditions that qualify you for $1,491 SSI payments
Full list of 14 health conditions that qualify you for $1,491 SSI payments
The US Sun

MANY Americans may not realize that they automatically qualify for monthly payments worth over $1,000. The funds come from a prominent government program managed by the Social Security Administration (SSA). Your info will be used in accordance with…

americanbanker.com - Joey Pizzolato - Global Payments' turnaround gets off on the right foot
Global Payments' turnaround gets off on the right foot
American Banker

Key insights: Investors were encouraged by Global Payments' fourth quarter earnings results – the first to include WorldPay post acquisition – but some analysts remained sceptical that the legacy fintech could turn its business…

pymnts.com - PYMNTS - Mobile Identity Is Flipping the Infrastructure of Cross-Border Payments
Mobile Identity Is Flipping the Infrastructure of Cross-Border Payments
PYMNTS.com | Breaking News, Trends and Analysis

In mature economies, financial identity is commonly anchored in banking relationships. Opening a bank account establishes identity, enables payments, and unlocks access to credit, savings and commerce. But across large parts of the world, including…

themoscowtimes.com - Russian Teachers in 10 Regions Face Partial Payment Delays Amid Budget Strain
Russian Teachers in 10 Regions Face Partial Payment Delays Amid Budget Strain
The Moscow Times

School teachers in at least 10 Russian regions have faced delays in part of their salaries, an independent teachers' union told the pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia on Thursday, as widening fiscal deficits strain public finances. Educators did not…

the-express.com - Averee Nelson - Farmers react to $155,000 payments from Trump coming soon
Farmers react to $155,000 payments from Trump coming soon
Daily Express US

Trump's $12 billion farmers' aid package will reach farmers on Feb. 28 Farmers across the country will receive financial relief from the federal government next week, with some receiving as much as $155,000. At a December farmers' roundtable…

refreshmiami.com - Riley Kaminer - alfred wants to make Latin America feel like one country… at least for global payments
alfred wants to make Latin America feel like one country… at least for global payments
Refresh Miami

There was a time when doing business across Latin America could mean juggling multiple banks, multiple payment providers – or, in some cases, bartering goods because moving money was just too painful. Diego Yanez built alfred to end that.

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