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• Merchant acquirer Worldpay brought its Worldpay Total integrated payments platform to the U.S.; Worldpay introduced the platform in the United Kingdom in November 2014 and extended it to European e-commerce merchants earlier this year.
• U.S. Bancorp, owner of merchant acquirer Elavon, posted $412 million in merchant-processing revenues in the third quarter, up 3% from $400 million a year earlier.
• Mobile payments specialist Apriva said it and Miura Systems, a mobile point-of-sale device maker, completed the EMV certification to Global Payments Inc. for Apriva’s AprivaPay Plus app used with the Miura M010 mPOS card reader.
• Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit announced its Android Pay mobile-payments service is now available in Hong Kong, with acceptance at more than 5,000 merchant locations.
• Circle, a blockchain-based person-to-person payments service, launched in Spain and Ireland.
• Nvoicepay and Napier Park Financial Partners announced a $10 million investment by Napier Park into the business-to-business payments software provider.
• Sandwich merchant Which Wich selected NCR Corp.’s Silver Pro Restaurant Edition for its franchisees.
• ModoPayments LLC said Bank of America Merrill Lynch customers now can use the company’s COIN Operated Digital Payment Hub to connect with multiple emerging payment networks.
• ACT Canada, a trade group for companies involved in payments and digital identity, awarded its 2016 Hero Award to Bob Jenisch, publisher of Digital Transactions magazine and Digital Transactions News, and to John Stewart, chief editor of both publications. The award was part of the group’s IVIE awards ceremony recognizing contributions to the industry.
