Bitpay, a provider of cryptocurrency-based payments services, said it is working with crypto-technology provider Banxa to enlarge access to payments using digital currency. Shield Compliance, a compliance provider for cannabis banking, issued an open letter to American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa calling on the networks to permit financial institutions …

AppTech Payments Corp., a specialist in business-to-business and business-to-consumer payments, has agreed to acquire Alliance Partners LLC and its FinZeo money-movement software. With the deal, expected to close Oct. 31, AppTech will become a payment facilitator, a company that allows merchants to accept payments on the company’s merchant account. Terms …

Slake IT LLC on Monday launched a food-delivery app that enables consumers to pay for orders using cryptocurrency in addition to credit cards. The company, which is supporting the Ethereum platform to enable crypto payments, has partnered with drivers of multiple food-delivery companies, including DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, to …

Visa Inc. says a change to its dispute rules and processes will make it easier for merchants to fight so-called friendly fraud in card-not-present transactions. With such fraud, cardholders dispute legitimate transactions to claim a refund. Payments provider Deluxe Corp. will offer bill-payment technology from Aliaswire Inc. to its banking clients through a new …

Feedzai, a U.S. fraud-detection and -prevention company, will offer its services in Latin America through a partnership with Dock, a payments provider specializing in services for that region. TreviPay, a U.S.-based business-to-business payments provider operating in 32 countries, introduced a service to support cases where buyers ask to be invoiced …

Debit card networks are gearing up for an expected flood of new online transactions in the wake of a Federal Reserve rule clarification that took effect more than a month ago to require that issuers enable network choice for online as well as in-person transactions. The latest example emerged late …

Fintech iWallet, whose technology lets repair personnel and other field-service providers process checks on a smart phone, said it is seeing growth among small businesses such as those in the plumbing, appliance-repair, electrical, and HVAC fields. Financial-technology provider Ascend will provide its billing-technology platform to process transactions for NFP, a property and casualty …

The Clearing House Payment Co. LLC, operator of the Real Time Payments network, said Wednesday that more financial institutions are making use of its Request for Payment capabilities. Request for payment has been a feature of The Clearinghouse’s real-time payments network since it launched more than five years ago. The …

Galileo Financial Technologies LLC has reached an agreement with Amazon.com to make its platform available to buyers on Amazon’s AWS Marketplace. AWS marketplace is a digital catalog that features software listings from independent software vendors. Businesses use it to find software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a unit …

Jack Henry & Associates Inc., one of the earliest participants in the Federal Reserve’s nascent FedNow real-time payments platform, said early Monday it is “operationally ready” to support the service when it launches commercially in July. The Monett, Mo.-based processor said more than 20 client institutions are set to connect …