Digital Currency

Mastercard Inc. said it is acquiring Dynamic Yield, a data personalization platform, from McDonald’s Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The University of Kansas has agreed to support the Passport app to pay for parking at 3,600 spaces across the campus. More than 800 cities, universities, and private operators now deploy Passport, …

To make cryptocurrency more accessible to the general public, BitPay Inc. on Tuesday announced a limited-time promotion with Simplex, a fiat-to-cryptocurrency gateway, to waive fees when BitPay wallet users purchase crypto using a credit or debit card. BitPay wallet users can buy the currency using the BitPay debit card or …

Security professionals around the world equate ransomware attacks with terrorism, but they differ markedly from country to country in their willingness to play ball with the attackers. That’s according to survey results released Tuesday that gathered data from more than 1,500 security executives in the United States, the United Kingdom, …

Taptap Send, a startup providing instant-payment capability for cross-border transfers, announced a $65-million Series B funding round led by Spark Capital. Its total financing now tops $80 million.Humboldt State University will adopt the Passport Parking app for on-campus parking beginning Jan. 18, announced Passport Parking.The Center for Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery said …

Food-ordering and delivery provider Waitr Holdings Inc. said it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire Retail Innovation Labs Inc., known as Cova, a provider of point-of-sale software for cannabis dispensaries. The deal calls for a price of $90 million in cash and stock.Agilysys Inc., a provider of payments …

New research from Fiserv Inc. found that 16% of U.S. consumers have used cryptocurrency at least once to pay for goods and services. The survey of 2,200 U.S. adults also revealed that 25% of crypto users cited lack of merchant acceptance as the primary limitation to increasing the use of crypto as …

Celero Commerce said it acquired Everest Payment Solutions. Terms were not disclosed. With Everest, Celero will serve more than 45,000 merchants that process more than $18 billion in annual card volume.Digital ordering and payments technology, which gained prominence with the pandemic, has made customers more impatient, with 64% indicating they won’t …

The world’s banking giants may or may not adopt cryptocurrencies at some point, but they are clearly looking to adopt the distributed-ledger technology that undergirds digital money. In the latest such move, Wells Fargo & Co. and HSBC Bank plc early Monday announced they have agreed to process cross-border transactions …

Corcentric, a business-to-business payments provider, said it will go public via a merger with North American Merger Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. The company’s network supports more than 450,000 buyers and more than 1.4 million suppliers and processes more than $100 billion in volume annually.Chainalysis, a provider of blockchain …

Fuel retailer BP is installing automated checkout technology from Grabango in 10 convenience store locations, Grabango announced. Seven AMPM stations in California and three Amoco stores in Pennsylvania will have the technology operational by mid-2022. Consumers use a Grabango app to shop and pay without queuing for a checkout lane.Buy now, pay later provider Klarna …