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- Volante Technologies Inc., a cloud payments and financial messaging provider, said it will offer U.S. financial institutions a unified real-time payments service that offers access to The Clearing House’s RTP network and the upcoming FedNow service, which is expected to launch in 2023. Volante has been in the FedNow pilot program since 2021.
- Facepay Inc., a payments provider based on blockchain, launched Facepay Crypto, a service to allow auto-repair shops to accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrency directly from customers. Facepay last summer launched a service to allow shops to accept direct bank transfers to avoid the costs of credit card acceptance.
- Wedge Financial Inc., whose Wedge debit card allows users to make payments with assets such as stocks and cryptocurrencies, said it is partnering with Sila Inc., whose technology links firms with U.S. banks and blockchain providers.
- The New York Red Bulls, a major league soccer club, has renewed an agreement with Venuetize, a mobile e-commerce platform, to designate Venuetize as the club’s official mobile app provider for mobile ordering, ticketing, and other features.
- Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said it is participating in the Mastercard Track Business Payment Service to support its business-to-business payments technology.
- Remittance firm Paysend said it is expanding its cross-border transfer services to Columbia in an agreement with MOVii, a mobile-wallet provider in that country.
- Mercator Advisory Group named Jordan Hirschfield its director of research. Prior to joining Mercator, Hirschfield was director of customer insights at GSMA, a wireless telecommunications association.
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