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- Micro-investing site Acorns has integrated its service with PayPal Holdings Inc., allowing select PayPal account holders to access their Acorn accounts through PayPal. The service will be expanded to all U.S. PayPal account holders starting early in 2018.
- Voice-marketing firm Invoca released a report called “The Rise of Voice” that found 73% of voice-assistant device owners made a purchase by voice. Thirty-nine percent said an interaction with a voice assistant influenced a purchase decision in the past month.
- Bitcoin continued its upward march, sprinting past the $8,000 level Sunday. The digital currency is now roughly eight times more valuable than it was at the start of the year.
- Foodservice-equipment distributor Consolidated Foodservice said it now accepts Bitcoin as a payment method.
- On Track Innovations Ltd. said its UNO 6 Ultra Compact NFC Contactless Reader will be used by CitiEV, a United Kingdom-based provider of charging stations for electric vehicles, to allow drivers to make payments.
- Processor ACI Worldwide Inc. said Zelle, the person-to-person payments service from bank-owned Early Warning Services LLC, has named it a technology partner, enabling financial institutions to connect to the Zelle network.
- Processor Fiserv Inc. said its Dovetail technology will support multiple European banks with a presence in nine countries that are in the first wave of financial institutions to use the so-called EBA RT1, the first pan-European clearing platform for real-time payments using the euro currency. EBA RT1 is set to go live Tuesday.
- ATM network owner Cardtronics plc appointed Gary W. Ferrera as chief financial officer, effective Nov. 28. Ferrera will succeed Edward H. West, who will become CEO upon the retirement of current CEO Steve Rathgaber at year’s end. Ferrera comes to Cardtronics from DigitalGlobe Inc., where he was CFO.
- ClickPay, a payments provider specializing in real-estate receivables, named Rachael Methal as chief financial officer.
- Anti-fraud specialist Giact Systems LLC named Meg Nicholls as chief compliance officer. Nicholls previously worked at law firm Troutman Sander LLP in the consumer financial services group and at Hyundai Capital America.
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