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Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said it is working to integrate omnichannel products from Valor PayTech into the Priority MX Merchant ecosystem.Raiven Capital said it has exited from an unspecified early-stage investment in Whizmo, a fintech that helps small businesses in emerging countries convert from cash acceptance to contactless payments.Mastercard Inc. launched Start Path …

Remitly Global Inc. Thursday announced it is making Visa Direct, Visa Inc.’s real-time push-payments platform, available to its customers in Canada. The deal expands Remitly’s online remittance service in Canada by providing Visa Direct as a payout option, the company says. With Visa Direct, Remitly customers in Canada can now …

Chargebacks are the bane of e-commerce retailers, but new data from ACI Worldwide Inc. indicate many may have them mostly in check. Separately, Forter launched Smart Claims, a product to help better manage chargebacks. Released Thursday, the new ACI data find that overall fraud attempts remained flat at 0.01%, despite …

Credit unions and other credit card issuers cheered as the provisions of the proposed Credit Card Competition Act fell short of becoming an amendment to a defense-authorization bill in Congress. The bill’s sponsors, including Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., had attempted to attach the CCCA to the defense bill as a shortcut to making it …

IPwe Inc., a provider of predictive analytics and blockchain technology, is partnering with Advasa Co. Ltd., a provider of earned wage access solutions. The deal will enable Advasa’s to expand its earned wage access business globally. Earned wage access provides employees the ability to access a portion of their already …

A new Juniper Research report forecasted e-commerce fraud will exceed $48 billion globally in 2023, up from $41 billion in 2022.BJ’s Wholesale Club has selected Capital One as the issuer of the retailer’s cobranded Mastercard, which is set to launch early next year.Galileo Financial Technologies said it has been Visa Ready certified as an …

To help restaurants manage catering and wholesale orders with their in-person, takeout, and delivery business while using one POS system, Toast Inc. has launched Toast Invoicing. The new application, developed in response to what Toast sees as restaurants’ growing catering business, will eliminate the need for a separate POS system, …

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday said it is making its new Zettle Terminal available to U.S. merchants generally following a rollout in Europe last year. The $199 device represents the e-commerce payments giant’s latest thrust into physical shops and restaurants and builds on technology acquired when it paid $2.2 billion …

Retailer Hollister Co. announced Share2Pay, a payment option that enables consumers to share their digital shopping bag with their purchaser, such as a parent or grandparent, to complete the purchase. Developed in-house, the service, in testing, found that customers who shared their bags placed orders at almost twice the rate of other …

Electronic Verification Systems, a provider of identity- and age-verification solutions, early Monday announced the launch of AssurePay, a credit card-verification platform that EVS says authenticates consumer credit card information at the beginning of the payment process, instead of while the card data is being held for processing. To validate a …