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Presto, a provider of payment tablets for the restaurant industry, said it will go public through a merger with Ventoux CCM Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. The deal values the combined company at an estimated $1 billion. Presto, whose clients include major brands like Applebee’s and Outback Steakhouse, …

Processor Nuvei Corp. announced it handled $21.6 billion in volume in the third quarter, up 88% year-over-year, with e-commerce accounting for 83% of that total. Revenue grew 96% to $183.9 million. Nuvei completed its initial public offering last month and trades on the Nasdaq.Global business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce volume will hit $6 trillion next year, …

Digital payments have been moving to the automobile dashboard for some time, and now the latest development is user authentication. Visa Inc. and the big automaker Daimler AG are planning to launch so-called native in-car payments starting next spring, according to an announcement early Monday. The new capability will replace …

Payments company Tidal Commerce said it will acquire Merchant Bancard Processing, a merchant-services company. Terms were not disclosed.Gift card and loyalty provider Factor4 LLC announced an integration with Valor Paytech, a gateway and point-of-sale terminal provider.BNPL provider Zip Co. Ltd. found in its “Holidays Unzipped: 20201 Holiday Spending Report” that nearly 51% of U.S. consumers intend …

Top executives with FIS Inc. spent a good deal of time Thursday morning countering what they said is a “bear case” that has developed among at least some investors and observers of the company. “The bear case is that FIS is standing still and not able to compete. This is …

Payments provider EVO Payments Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $135 million, a 15.4% increase from the same quarter in 2020. Fifty-nine percent, or $79.4 million, of its revenue came from the Americas and the remainder, $55.6 million, from EVO’s European business. Net income of $7.1 million for the quarter was down 51.4% …

Two trends have buoyed the payments business since the onset of the pandemic—online shopping and buy now, pay later capability—and on Wednesday Klarna AB launched a new app that exploits both trends by letting consumers use Klarna’s BNPL service regardless of whether the store is a Klarna merchant. The new …

Heading into the holiday shopping season, consumers are poised to make even more use of buy now, pay later options than in the past. Overall, 42% of consumers plan to use BNPL while holiday shopping, according to a survey by GoCardless, a provider of account-to-account payments. When Millennials were asked …

The big processor Global Payments Inc. on Tuesday morning reported a busy third quarter that included an expansion of its relationship with PayPal Holdings Inc., ventures in the hot buy now, pay later market, recovery from the pandemic’s impact, and growth in the company’s issuer business stemming from its link …

ACI Worldwide Inc. added to its growing list of buy now, pay later partners on Monday, announcing a deal with Affirm Inc. Merchants using the processor’s ACI Secure eCommerce solution can offer consumers the ability to make purchases with Affirm and split the cost of the purchase into biweekly or …