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Almost a year after vowing to make its PayPal- and Venmo-branded credit and debit cards available in Apple Wallet, PayPal Holdings Inc. has come through on that promise. With the move, announced Wednesday, eligible PayPal and Venmo cards can be added to Apple Wallet by tapping the “Add Debit or …

PayNearMe Inc. is beefing up the fraud-fighting capabilities of its MoneyLine iGaming and sports-betting platform via an integration with Accertify Inc., a subsidiary of American Express Co. The integration will enable iGaming and sports-betting operators to reduce fraudulent withdrawals from iGaming accounts by confirming an accountholder’s identity prior to a …

U.S.-based blockchain platform Ripple Labs Inc. said its unit in Singapore, Ripple Markets APAC Ltd, has received a Major Payments Institution license from Singapore’s Monetary Authority, enabling Ripple to go on providing regulated digital-payment token services in that country. Online grocery-delivery service Instacart said it will now accept payments from users through Medicare Advantage …

Solutions by Text is adding embedded bill-payment capabilities to its FinText messaging and payments platform. Consumers will now be able to pay bills through the FinText platform without leaving the platform’s Web site or mobile app, which creates a more convenient payment experience, the company says. Transactions will be processed …

Count one less competitor in the market for advanced point-of-sale technology at stadiums. Shift4 Payments Inc. has agreed to buy SpotOn Transact Inc.’s sports and entertainment business for $100 million in a move that beefs up Shift4’s position in the burgeoning stadium market and marks a retreat by SpotOn from …

The Federal Reserve said FedNow, its real-time payments service that launched in July with 35 banks and credit unions, now counts 108 participating institutions with 21 others providing liquidity and settlement services and 20 service providers. Kenneth C. Montgomery, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston first vice president and chief operating officer who spearheaded …

Experian PLC on Monday launched its Smart Money digital checking account and debit card. The product is part of the credit bureau’s strategy to offer consumers with no or minimal credit histories an opportunity to quickly build a credit score. To that end, Experian has embedded in the new product …

It’s a sobering part of the daily payments arena—fraud is unending and always evolving. That’s why payments and anti-fraud companies continue to create new services in an effort to keep up with the latest scams. Visa on Monday said it would make managed detection and response services from Expel Inc. …

Payments-technology platform Pidgin said it has agreed to provide real-time payments capability to retail and commercial account holders at Exchange Bank. AffiniPay LLC, a payments platform for professional-services firms, has sold its accounting-software unit, Soluno, to ActionStep, a provider of practice-management technology. Terms were not disclosed. The U.S.-based blockchain firm Coinbase Inc. announced it …

Visa Inc. is touting recent changes to how chargebacks that could be first-party fraud, also known as friendly fraud, are processed as potentially saving small businesses globally $1 billion in costs over the next five years. Expectations are that the streamlined process will increase merchants’ ability to provide more accurate …

The world of global payments is undergoing major changes as new technologies and players enter the payment space. While banks and financial institutions have historically dominated international payments, we are seeing new innovations and non-traditional competitors redefine how money moves across the globe. In recent years, the entire payments chain …

U.S.-based network-management company Transaction Network Services said its technology will manage connectivity for Spain-based Euro Automatic Cash, a network of 1,500 ATMs. Tiptap, a donation platform, said it will enable Visa member financial institutions to offer customers a platform to make small donations to community charities while they are performing routine banking …

Shift4 Payments Inc. announced Thursday it is integrating Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out technology into its VenueNext application for sports stadiums and other arenas. The big payments processor says it will introduce the checkout system at the United Center in Chicago, a venue where Shift4 already provides processing for purchases …

Unceasing competition for restaurant payments revenue has spurred two developments among point-of-sale system makers catering to the segment. Santa Clara, Calif.-based SoundHound AI Inc. says Olo, a New York City-based hospitality specialist, will make SoundHound’s voice-ordering service, which relies on artificial intelligence, available to its approximately 77,000 merchant locations. When …

Visa Inc. says a change to its dispute rules and processes will make it easier for merchants to fight so-called friendly fraud in card-not-present transactions. With such fraud, cardholders dispute legitimate transactions to claim a refund. Payments provider Deluxe Corp. will offer bill-payment technology from Aliaswire Inc. to its banking clients through a new …

The United States Treasury Department has selected J.P. Morgan to provide account-validation services to federal-government agencies when they disburse funds to consumers. Under the terms of the five-year contract, which was awarded after a competitive selection process, the banking giant will validate the accounts of consumers receiving payments from federal …

The hotly contested restaurant point-of-sale market shows no signs of cooling off. Inspire Brands Inc., a global restaurant chain that is home to Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin’, and four other brands, has expanded its work with processor Fiserv Inc. with the goal of unifying in-store, in-app, and online transactions for more …

The Federal Reserve issued a set of market practices, or a kind of blueprint, as part of an effort to introduce standards for a request for payment function for bill pay on the regulator’s FedNow real-time payments service, which launched nationwide in July. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit launched Tap to Pay on Android …

MoneyGram International Inc. announced Tuesday it will launch in the first quarter next year a non-custodial digital wallet that will support stablecoins. The wallet’s support of stablecoins—digital currency tied to the value of a national fiat currency, such as the dollar— will enable consumers to move from fiat currency to …

Citcon USA LLC, an e-commerce wallet-technology provider, is adding Block Inc.’s Cash App Pay and Afterpay buy now, pay later payment methods to its inventory of merchant options. In related news, Block’s Square point-of-sale unit is bolstering merchant selling tools with new online features. Citcon’s integration of Cash App Pay, …