- Real-time account-to-account payments provider AppBrilliance announced it closed an investment from Truist Ventures, the venture-capital arm of Truist Financial. Terms were not announced. AppBrilliance works with The Clearing House’s Real Time Payments network as well as FedNow, the real-time network from the Federal Reserve.
- Pay Plantation LLC, whose payment gateway allows merchants to accept e-checks and automated clearing house payments, has launched a fundraising platform for clients.
- Gift-card technology platform eGifter launched a Spanish-language version of its eGifter.com platform to reach the estimated 41 million U.S. Spanish speakers.
- Taulia, a provider of working-capital technology, launched its Mastercard-branded Taulia Virtual Cards, aimed at streamlining clients’ access to capital.
- Canada’s EQ Bank launched its EQ Bank Card in Quebec. The card, launched in January, is a prepaid, reloadable Mastercard whose benefits include no foreign-currency conversion fees when traveling and interest on the card balance.
- The cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin launched its KuCard, a Visa-branded debit card backed by users’ crypto assets.
- Open banking specialist Plaid named Brian Dammeir its head of Europe. Dammeir has held similar roles at Adyen.
- Payments-technology firm Presto Automation has named Steve Herbert a strategic advisor for Presto Touch, a self-serve platform for ordering and payment. Herbert formerly was chairman and chief executive of payments-technology firm Cantaloupe Inc.
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