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- The messaging app Clickatell added updates to its Chat Commerce Platform, including a new integration of Chat 2 Pay, which allows travel brands to accept payments as part of business messages.
- The card-issuing platform Marqeta Inc. announced it has integrated Mastercard Track Instant Pay, which enables immediate payment of supplier invoices.
- The virtual-card platform Extend announced its relationship with BMO now includes the ability for commercial clients of the bank to create, send and manage virtual cards through Extend’s mobile and desktop app.
- Some 93% of Gen Z persons report using a peer-to-peer payments platform on a monthly basis, up from 79% in 2019, while 85% say they use a mobile wallet at least once a month, according to a survey by payments provider Billtrust of 750 persons born between 1997 and 2012.
- Businesses reported a 32% increase in human-initiated attacks in the past 12 months year-over-year, found the first “Global State of Fraud and Identity Report” from LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Malicious bot attacks jumped 38% in the same period.
- PickleJar, a payments platform for event organizers, has added to its app a capability to bundle merchandise, food, beverage, and parking offerings with ticketing sales.
- Car IQ Inc. said it is working with Verra Mobility to enable fleets to connect with tolling services using Verra Mobility’s network and pay without using a credit or debit card.
- Worldpay, a unit of FIS Inc., said it will offer merchants access to SheerID identity marketing services.
- SpotOn, a payments provider for restaurants and small businesses, named Bryan Solar chief product officer. Solar comes to the company from Block Inc., where he was general manager for Square for Restaurants.
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