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Payments research and consultancy firm TSG conferred its Best Performing Gateway award on Worldpay, with Elavon’s Fusebox in second place. The firm monitors gateway performance through its Global Experience Monitoring platform, which monitors credit card transactions across 30 locations around the world. Digital workflow provider ServiceNow announced a five-year agreement with Visa Inc. to …

Exceleron, a payments service for utility companies, said it is working with payments platform KyckGlobal to allow persons to pay a utility bill with cash at certain ATMs. Dash Solutions acquired KyckGlobal in August. Payments and loyalty platform Givex announced an integration with Uber Direct to enable merchants to add on-demand delivery service to …

Payments provider i3 Verticals Inc. posted fourth-quarter 2023 revenue of $96.4 million, a 13% increase from $85.3 million for the same quarter a year ago ended Sept. 30. Quarterly income of $3.4 million reversed a $4.4 million loss last year. For the full year, i3 Verticals had a loss of $2.7 million, …

Payments platform Klarna AB added a service in the U.S. market that enables “creators” to open customized online storefronts. PCI Pal, a provider of compliance technology for the Payment Card Industry data-security standard, said it is working with Zoom Video Communications Inc. to launch its services with Zoom Contact Center and Zoom …

Digital-banking software provider Alkami Technology Inc. said it has enabled access for client banks to open-banking network Plaid via an application programming interface. Lightspeed Commerce Inc., a specialist in payments processing for the hospitality industry, launched “Luminaries,” a planned series of interviews with the leaders of client businesses, starting with the corporate …

Bitcoin Depot Inc. looks to expand the installation of its cryptocurrency kiosks in a new deal with Cord Financial Services LLC. Separately, RocketFuel Inc. will adopt Ripple Payments for its payment-products suite. Atlanta-based Bitcoin Depot, which recently expanded the footprint of its BDCheckout cryptocurrency digital-wallet funding program, says it will …

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 …

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 …

U.S.-based network-management company Transaction Network Services said its technology will manage connectivity for Spain-based Euro Automatic Cash, a network of 1,500 ATMs. Tiptap, a donation platform, said it will enable Visa member financial institutions to offer customers a platform to make small donations to community charities while they are performing routine banking …

The Federal Reserve issued a set of market practices, or a kind of blueprint, as part of an effort to introduce standards for a request for payment function for bill pay on the regulator’s FedNow real-time payments service, which launched nationwide in July. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit launched Tap to Pay on Android …