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Keyo’s Hand Scanner Debuts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/19/23

  • Keyo, a provider of digital-identity technology, released its Keyo Wave+ hand scanner for payments, access control, ticketing, and other uses.
  • Visa Inc. has renewed an agreement to be the exclusive payment-services provider for the U.S. Women’s and Men’s National Soccer Teams.
  • Buy now, pay later provider Afterpay Ltd. said it has added “thousands” of new merchants for its Pay Monthly option, which it added last fall. The option lets users split high-ticket expenses over a six- or 12-month period. Afterpay is a unit of Block Inc.
  • Canada-based Sezzle Inc., a rival BNPL platform, announced more than 500,000 Canadians have made at least one purchase using the app since its introduction four years ago, with more than 280,000 having used the app more than once.
  • Payments provider Fiserv Inc. has enabled client merchants in Argentina to begin accepting Pix, a real-time payments service launched nearly three years ago in Brazil.
  • The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched a fare-capping feature on transit-payment technology from Cubic Transportation Systems. The feature lets users ride for free for the remainder of the period after reaching daily and seven-day fare caps on their TAP fare cards.
  • Deluxe Corp. named Debra Bradford president of merchant services. Bradford had been president and chief financial officer of First American Payment Systems by Deluxe, which Deluxe acquired in 2021. She joins its executive leadership team too, as does Kristopher Lazzaretti, who heads FMCG Direct, which Deluxe acquired in 2017.

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