Buy now, pay later specialist Zip Co Ltd. said it is working with Primer, a payments and commerce provider, to expand and optimized its payments stack. The troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX is seeking to reclaim millions in payments it made to celebrities and sports personalities prior to its November bankruptcy filing. Merchant services provider PayBright named …

Block Inc.’s Square and Cash App units began experiencing system outages late Thursday, according to news reports. Cash App’s outage reportedly affected peer-to-peer payments, cash-ins, and cash card transactions. At Square, engineers reported early Friday they were deploying a solution. Point-of-sale system maker iPOS Systems has enabled Tap to Pay on iPhone for U.S. …

Cantaloupe Inc., a payments provider for the vending and self-service industries, reported it processed $703.5 million in volume in the June quarter, up 14% year-over-year, on 278.6 million transactions, up slightly from 274.6 million. It collected $64.2 million in revenue, an 11% rise. In a letter to shareholders, Innovative Payment Solutions …

Prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network said it is working with Visa Inc. to convert its Visa-branded cards from plastic to paper-based materials. Payments provider Central Payments released PayCP, its payout platform that initially includes a virtual Discover prepaid card, a physical Discover prepaid card, push to debit cards via Mastercard Send, and ACH bank …

Mastercard Inc. denies an assertion it intends to raise interchange rates in October following an Aug. 30th story in The Wall Street Journal about interchange rate adjustments expected from Mastercard and Visa Inc. in October and April. Mastercard said the article relied on a report from an advisory firm that is advocating for legislation that …

Otto, a business and payments platform for veterinary practices, announced a $43-millon Series B equity-financing round. The company, formerly called TeleVet, now claims more than 8,000 clinics. Nexo introduced its Nexo Card, a Mastercard-branded card that allows holders to use as either a credit or debit card on each transaction, with …

The shares of Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. reached all-time highs Wednesday following a report from The Wall Street Journal that the two major card networks plan to raise interchange and network fees in October and April. Visa closed at $246.23 per share, and Mastercard at $413.91. The networks have historically introduced new pricing …

Sixty-three percent of consumers in a survey of U.S., U.K., and German shoppers say they prefer to shop in person rather than online, with 70% of U.S. shoppers saying so. The results, released by payments platform Digital River, stemmed from a canvass of 3,000 consumers across the three countries. Garmin launched its …

Restaurant point-of-sale provider Snack POS has agreed to offer EMV terminals from Pax. Soundhound AI Inc., a specialist in artificial intelligence, said it will work with online-ordering platform ChowNow to help restaurants answer and respond to customer calls. Payments provider Nayax Ltd. is working with loyalty-technology platform Giift to enable consumers to convert loyalty …

VSoft Corp., a specialist in financial-services technology, said its core-processing and digital-banking platforms are processing real-time transactions through an integration with instant-payments provider Pidgin. Payments providers ACI Payments and Link2Gov Corp. have been awarded Internal Revenue Service contracts worth $2.07 billion to support credit and debit card payments for taxes and user …