Host Merchant Services – Credit Card Processing and Point of Sale for Small Business

Picture two coffee shops on the same street. Both serve great espresso. Both have loyal regulars. Only one sells gift cards. By December, that shop has thousands of dollars sitting in its account, a wave of first-time visitors, and a marketing tool that costs almost nothing to run. The other is still wondering why business feels flat. Gift cards for restaurants and re...

For 21 years, every time a customer tapped a credit card at a U.S. checkout counter, a small slice of that sale quietly disappeared into a fee most shoppers never see. Merchants have spent two decades arguing that those “swipe fees” were rigged — and on June 9, 2026, a federal judge finally moved the case toward a close. The court approved a sweeping $38 billion Visa-Masterca...

When a federal regulator issues a public statement about a single rewards card, it usually isn’t really about the card. The CFPB Bilt reimbursement order — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s June 2026 direction that Bilt repay customers harmed by a messy switch to a new bank partner — looks small on paper. Around 500 newly identified customers. A hand...

Think about the last thing you bought online. There’s a good chance you didn’t pay all at once. Maybe you split it into four. Maybe you tapped a balance instead of a credit card. That small shift at checkout is now a multibillion-dollar habit. And one company is moving fast to own both ends of it.

Block Inc, the company that owns Cash App, Square, and Afterpay, is i...

On June 3, 2026, branch-closure filings with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency surfaced — first reported by Banking Dive — confirming that Fifth Third will shut 81 branches this summer as it digests Comerica. The $10.9 billion all-stock acquisition closed in February 2026, creating the ninth-largest bank in the country with roughly $294 billion in...