Verifone’s Real Time Fraud Check and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 11/4/26 – Digital Transactions
- Verifone announced it has enabled Featurespace across its gateways. The technology, offered by Visa, checks individual payments for fraud in real time. Verifone’s service assesses more than 1,800 transaction attributes in real time for each payment.
- Chargeback management platform Justt updated its platform with Justt Flows, an automation engine for alerts and chargebacks, Consistent Disputers, a service that identifies consumers who repeatedly dispute purchases, and PayPal Alerts, which provides merchants with pre-chargeback warnings that card-network alert vendors cannot see.
- Restaurant point-of-sale specialist Toast Inc. reported gross payment volume of $61.8 billion for the September quarter, up 20% year-over-year on a 21% rise in total locations to approximately 189,000. Revenue rose 21% to $1.98 billion, while net income totaled $169 million, up 61%. Toast expanded into the gas station and convenience store market during the quarter.
- Card-issuing platform Marqeta Inc. announced it processed $126 billion in volume for the September quarter, up 29% year-over-year. Net revenue increased 8%, to $176 million, while net income swung positive to $115.4 million from a $3.6 million loss a year ago. For the year through September, net revenue totaled $518 million, up 14% compared to a year ago.
- Block Inc., parent of Square, Cash App, and Afterpay, posted third-quarter 2026 revenue of $6.7 billion, a 9.8% increase from $6.1 billion a year ago. Its net income grew to $564.1 million, a 22.2% increase from $461.6 million year-over-year.
- Fiserv Inc.’s third-quarter revenue of $5.2 billion dropped 1.9% from its year-prior revenue of $5.3 billion, with the processor citing lower revenues in merchant solutions and flat revenue for its financial solutions segment. It also had a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $6.45 billion. It posted a $5.9 billion loss for the 2026 third quarter, reversing a $799 million profit a year prior.
- Yellow Card, a U.S.-based provider of stablecoin-payments technology, said it closed in October on an acquisition of GoMoney, a Brazil-based service provider for virtual assets. Terms were not announced. The deal follows Yellow Card’s $40 million funding round in August.
- Gift card and loyalty technology platform Factor4 said it will link its capabilities with Erply, a point-of-sale and e-commerce provider for merchants. The integration will handle gift card sales and balance inquiries and redemptions.
