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NCR Corp. said it is investigating a ransomware incident affecting one of its data centers and its Aloha cloud-based services for the hospitality industry. Its ATM, digital banking, payments and other retail services are not impacted. Huntington National Bank said it has extended Huntington ChoicePay to payments in higher education and business services. …

Digital-payments platform Kasheesh, which allows consumers to split purchases between debit, credit, and prepaid cards for online purchases, has introduced a one-time-use Visa card to its mobile wallet that can be used at physical stores. The feature, called Mobile Wallet Dashboard, allows users to add their Kasheesh account to their …

Cross-border payments fintech Higlobe Inc. said users can make payments in the United States from their Higlobe account with a new Visa prepaid card issued by Dash Solutions. POSaBIT Systems Corp., a payments platform specializing in the cannabis industry, said a previously announced agreement under which it would acquire MJ Platform, Leaf …

Lux Vending LLC, which does business as Bitcoin ATM operator Bitcoin Depot Inc., has agreed to deploy its machines in 125 locations owned by convenience-store chain GetGo Cafe + Market. Overall, Bitcoin Depot operates approximately 7,000 machines in 48 states and 10 Canadian provinces. Digital-currency provider Circle Internet Financial LLC said it has …

The payments orchestration platform Spreedly announced integrations to Venmo, PayPal Credit, PayPal Pay Later, and automated clearing house payments for clients of PayPal and Spreedly who process through PayPal’s Braintree unit. In related news, payments provider CellPoint Digital said airline Icelandair will use its Velocity payment orchestration platform to access payment providers in countries …

Nearly two months after announcing it was resuming money transfers from the United States to Cuba, The Western Union Co. is significantly expanding the service to include more than 4,400 locations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico from which remittances to the island nation can be initiated. In addition, U.S. …

Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB said its 2022 loss of 10.47 billion krona ($1 billion) grew on its 2021 loss of 7.1 billion krona ($680 million). This comes amid growth in 2022. The United States became Klarna’s largest market in December. Also, Klarna will begin collecting late fees from United Kingdom consumers who miss a payment, …

Payments provider PayJunction released an updated version of its developer toolset to enable software companies to integrate account-to-account bank transfer connectivity within their platforms. Equipifi, a white-label buy now, pay later provider, said customers of credit union ACU of Texas can now use BNPL as a payment method with their existing debit …

Cost surprises at checkout are the leading cause of cart abandonment, with 57% of consumers saying they walked away from checkout at least once in the past year because of unexpected delivery costs, according to a wide-ranging shopping report released by point-of-sale technology provider Verifone Inc., which surveyed 995 respondents globally. Price …

Mastercard Inc. has made some big news in recent months, but you wouldn’t know all of it from the company’s conference call early Thursday to discuss its fourth-quarter 2022 and full-year results. Mastercard celebrated recently concluded major deals that make the global payments company the exclusive provider of debit branding …