Visa Inc. announced it will start a pilot in November for Visa AR Manager, a platform intended to automate more functions in commercial card acceptance. PayNearMe, a specialist in payments for iGaming and sports betting, will add to its MoneyLine platform the “Cardless Cash at ATM” feature from NCR Atleos Corp. …

J.P. Morgan Payments launched its pay-by-bank service, relying on open-banking technology from Mastercard Inc. The service lets customers pay bills directly from their bank accounts. Block Inc.’s Afterpay buy now, pay later platform announced a partnership with Nift Networks to offer users access to products and services offered by Nift. Point-of-sale system maker Revel …

Ninety-nine percent of large enterprises—those with annual revenue of $1 billion to $9.9 billion—expect to send real-time payments in the next five years, found the 2023 AFP Real-Time Payments Survey released by the Association for Financial Professionals and sponsored by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC. It also found that 77% of …

Health iPASS launched Health iPASS Cloud Payments, a processing service for health-care providers. Fiserv Inc. said it is leveraging its merchant-acceptance and card-issuing technology to ease embedded finance for client financial institutions. Metropolitan Commercial Bank said it will deploy cloud-based technology from Finzly to support payment processing via FedNow, Fedwire, and the automated …

Nacha, the governing body for the automated clearing house network, reported the system processed 212 million same-day payments worth $608 billion in the September quarter, up 20% and 27.1%, respectively, over the same period last year. Total volume for all ACH payment types for the quarter came to 7.8 billion, …

AppTech Payments Corp., a specialist in business-to-business and business-to-consumer payments, has agreed to acquire Alliance Partners LLC and its FinZeo money-movement software. With the deal, expected to close Oct. 31, AppTech will become a payment facilitator, a company that allows merchants to accept payments on the company’s merchant account. Terms …

The Payments Innovation Alliance released what it calls a tabletop exercise designed to help small and mid-size businesses prepare defenses against a cyberattack. The PIA is part of Nacha, the network operator for the automated clearing house network. Transact Campus Inc., a payments platform specializing in college campuses, announced a technical …

An agreement between processor Fiserv Inc. and open-banking platform Plaid will allow consumers who use any of Fiserv’s 3,000 client banks to share financial information with third-party apps and services. Discover Financial Services’ Discover Global Network launched a cloud-based version of its stored payment tokens service. Tokens are digital replacements for actual card credentials. …

Payments platform Klarna AB announced a series of new services, including Shopping lens, which enables shoppers to take a picture of an item in their surroundings to find out where to buy it on the best terms. The service uses artificial intelligence to render the item in a search term. Technology consultancy Thoughtworks said …

The processor Worldpay said it will work with Masabi, a provider of technology for transit-fare payments, to offer an EMV platform for what the pair call “transit agencies of all sizes.” Health-care payments specialist RevSpring unveiled new features of its Engage IQ platform that includes updated messaging, the ability to use graphics in email …