- ACI Worldwide Inc. said its real-time payments platform, UP Immediate Payments, has added application programming interfaces to ease integration with mobile wallets, e-commerce portals, bill-pay apps, social-media payments, and other applications.
- Payments provider Klarna AB said it has an agreement with musical-instrument maker Fender to provide a payment option offering four equal installments on Fender.com.
- Credit-reporting agency Experian Information Solutions Inc. launched Sure Profile, an effort to combat synthetic-identity fraud. The product validates consumer identities, helps detect the fraud, and helps cover losses sustained.
- In related news, threat-detection provider Akamai Technologies introduced Page Integrity Manager, an in-browser tool aimed at detecting compromised scripts that could steal user data.
- Payments provider PayCertify said it is offering Chargebacks911 dispute-management services to its merchants.
- Business Development Resources, a provider of business training to HVAC distributors and contractors, launched BDR Payments, aimed at providing payments processing for contractors, including contactless payments, via services negotiated by BDR.
- The Financial Data and Technology Association said Experian, Fiserv Inc., Fintech Growth Syndicate, and Interac Corp. joined the trade group.
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