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Carr’s Beyond Makes Acquisition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/24/18

  • Beyond, the payments company started by Robert O. Carr in 2017, purchased Boosterville for an undisclosed amount. The company provides a service that connects nonprofit organizations with local merchants. Boosterville has been rebranded Chip-In.
  • Visa Inc. and wire-transfer provider MoneyGram International Inc. said they teamed up to enable cross-border remittances using the Visa Direct real-time push-payments platform.
  • The Western Union Co. said its money-transfer services have been integrated into ecoPayz-branded products from U.K.-based PSI-Pay Ltd.
  • U.S. financial institutions that issue contactless cards could generate more than $2 billion in incremental card-related earnings over the next five years, predicted a new report from A.T. Kearney, a management-consulting firm.
  • Plum Voice, which provides interactive voice-response systems, said its communications platform is now included on the Visa Inc. Global Registry of Service Providers.

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