Transaction Processing

Shift4 Payments Inc. is beefing up its operations in Europe on the eve of founder and chief executive Jared Isaacman’s departure to run the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Allentown, Pa.-based processor announced late Tuesday a $2.5-billion agreement to acquire Global Blue, a Switzerland-based international platform providing transaction services …

Separate stockholder meetings for Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services voted to approve Capital One’s proposed acquisition of Discover, a deal that was first proposed a year ago. Cap One says it now expects the $35.3-billion transaction to close early this year, subject to approval from the Federal Reserve System’s Board of …

Toast Inc. has signed Ascent Hospitality Management, which owns and manages the Perkins American Food Co. and Huddle House restaurant chains, as a client. Ascent will install Toast’s payments platform in 500 Perkins and Huddle House locations initially. Ascent installed the first Toast platform at a Perkins location last fall, the …

Mastercard Inc. is launching a new service it says will help financial institutions better serve their middle-market business clients. The card brand also is working with Feedzai, a fraud-prevention provider, to help FIs better identify and stop scams. Announced Tuesday, the Mastercard Mid-Market Accelerator suite of products is aimed at …

CellPoint Digital Holdings Ltd. introduced a new payment-orchestration platform aimed at simplifying travel payments and related orders and offers. Merchant data provider Spade Data Inc. said it will work with Bilt Rewards, a loyalty provider for home and rent payments, to provide more merchant details to Bilt users. PSQ Holdings Inc. said it has …

Now Book It, a vendor of table-reservation and payments software for restaurants in Australia and New Zealand, has expanded to Canada. Canada has more than 100,000 locations that serve food, such as restaurants, cafés and brew pubs, generating $112 billion in annual sales, according to Restaurants Canada. In addition, 23 …

Third Federal Savings & Loan, a Cleveland-based bank with $17.1 billion in assets, is adopting Fiserv Inc.’s DNA platform. Fiserv acquired the core-processing platform in 2013 with an acquisition. Among the platform’s features is an AppMarket. Users can select a variety of payments apps, such as for automated clearing house …

InComm Payments, which has launched the Mastercard Give Hope gift card, has agreed to donate to the American Red Cross $2 from the purchase price of each card sold on mastercardgiftcard.com. Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., a developer of payments technologies for mass-transit systems, announced it is opening an innovation center …

Fraud-as-a-service offerings last year made it easier than ever for criminals to perpetrate mega-fraud attacks across payment, social media, and cryptocurrency platforms, says a report from AU10TIX, a provider of identity-verification solutions. Fraud-as-a-service refers to online marketplaces that sell the tools criminals need to perpetrate fraud, such as artificial-intelligence-based tools …

EasyPark Group, a provider of technology that allows drivers to find and pay for parking, said it has acquired rival parking app developer Parkopedia. Terms were not announced. The health-care fintech Veuu Inc. announced it will work with Wipro Ltd., a consulting company, to develop an instant-payment service for transactions between payers …