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Valve Ends Physical Steam Gift Cards, Will Not Restock Retail Stock

Scammers repeatedly adapted to card protections, forcing Valve to shift to account-linked digital gift cards to curb fraud.

Lolli Launches Automatic Bitcoin Cashback on Linked Cards

RBI Mandates Two-Factor Authentication for All Digital Payments From April 1

PayPal to End New Google Wallet Linkings on March 31

Peru Enacts E‑Commerce Consumer Protections That Ban Dark Patterns

Lloyds Bank Clarifies Google Pay Use, Cautions It May Restrict Transactions

Mexico Warns of 'Toque Fantasma' Contactless Payment Scam

Peru Bill Would Criminalize Keeping Mistaken Yape or Plin Transfers

ARCA Updates E‑Commerce VAT Rules and Orders SICNEA Enrollment for Customs Notices

Yape Rolls Out Anonymous In‑App Tool to Report Extortion Accounts

Google Play Rolls Out In-App Shop for Third-Party Gift Cards in U.S., U.K., and Mexico

Mercado Libre to Launch Official Apple Store in Argentina in November

PayPal and Venmo Back Online After Brief Outage

Putin Signs Law Blocking Auto Debits After Users Revoke or Delete Payment Details

Mexico’s Banks Activate User-Set Transfer Caps as MTU Rules Take Effect

Amazon Prime Refunds Set to Begin Under $2.5 Billion FTC Settlement

Emirates NBD Starts Phasing Out SMS OTPs With In-App Approvals From Nov. 1

OpenAI and Stripe Launch In-Chat Checkout in ChatGPT for Etsy, With Shopify Next

Pix Outage Triggers Payment Failures Across Multiple Banks in Brazil

SBP Clarifies Two-Hour Hold Applies Only to Branchless Wallet Use, Not to Receiving Transfers