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The First National Bank of Omaha launched a buy now, pay later service that enables merchants to offer installment payments to consumers. FNBO tapped EXL, an operations management and analytics company, and Skeps, a point-of-sale loan originations platform, to help develop the service. The BNPL service can be integrated into e-commerce Web …

Responding to child-care administrators’ need for improved payroll services, payroll-as-a-service startup Check Technologies Inc. has partnered with Procare Software LLC to provide digital-payroll services to Procare’s child-care center business-management platform. The deal comes at a time when strained resources during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have accelerated child-care centers’ need for …

Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. completed its acquisition of Finxera Holdings Inc., a provider of banking-as-a-service software. Terms of the deal, which was announced in March, were not announced.Payment-fraud prevention provider Inetco Systems Ltd. launched BullzAI, a single technology combining a Web application firewall with a real-time fraud-detection and blocking system.The Tampa Hillsborough …

Hot trends tend to spin off related innovations, and now it looks like buy now, pay later is no exception. The London-based fintech Curve OS Ltd. on Thursday unveiled Curve Flex, a service that lets users convert any Curve transaction into an installment plan with the swipe of a button …

GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., said to be Brazil’s largest domestic airline, has chosen FIS Inc.’s Worldpay unit for payments processing in the 38 global market where the airline operates.Zum Rails, a provider of payments and open-banking software, launched anti-fraud technology for its Instant Deposit feature, which is enabled by Visa Direct.Humbl …

Seeking to improve the customer experience for insurance-claim payments, Metromile Enterprise Solutions LLC, an automated insurance-claims payments platform, is partnering with payment processor Dwolla Inc. to enable digital payments. With the Dwolla integration, insurance companies using Metromile’s Streamline platform can send claims payments in real time using The Clearing House …

The biggest U.S. processor of card transactions announced on Thursday it has started processing credit card payments in the U.S. for the massive Alibaba.com online marketplace. As part of the arrangement, J.P. Morgan Merchant Services said it is working with the mobile and online payments provider Alipay to manage transactions …

Square Inc. launched its Early Access Program for beta testing in Spain. The program allows select businesses and freelancers to access Square technology. The move marks Square’s entry in the Spanish market.Sky Systemz, a business-to-business software company, launched Sky Paymentz, a service to enable businesses to accept payments in person, online, …

Real-time bill payment took another large step forward Wednesday with BNY Mellon’s announcement it is partnering with Verizon Communications Inc. and Citibank to enable Verizon customers with Citibank accounts to pay their bills with near-instant effect.  The agreement connects BNY Mellon as the billing bank, Verizon as the biller, and …

Like a coiled spring, consumer demand is set to explode once social, entertainment, and shopping restrictions are lifted. Retail and hospitality will be the first to benefit as consumers seek to make-up for lost ground. But has Covid left businesses too weak to reap the rewards or has it helped …