Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said it will offer merchants gift card products from Factor4 and GiftYa. Doma Holdings Inc., a technology platform for the real-estate industry, said it linked to payments provider paymints.io to allow home buyers to deposit earnest money digitally. The Electronic Transactions Association announced its 2023 board of directors. Eric Hoffman, …

Discover Financial Services posted single-digit growth rates for both its Pulse and Discover network units in the fourth quarter of 2022. Discover on Thursday said volume on its Discover Network was $58.1 million in the quarter, a 9.2% increase from $453.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Pulse, Discover’s debit network, …

Desjardins Group, said to be the biggest financial cooperative in North America, said it will transfer its credit card processing function to Fiserv Inc. The deal is said to be the first such “large-scale” engagement in Canada for Fiserv. Business-to-business buy now, pay later platform Playter launched Paid, a service that lets Playter clients …

The Digital Dollar Project early Wednesday issued recommendations that include bigger investments by the federal government in researching a tokenized digital dollar. The group also called on the United States to exert leadership internationally in setting global standards for government-issued digital currencies even if the U.S. itself ultimately refrains from …

Convenience store chain Circle K is migrating its electric vehicle charging network to Driivz, a service that includes scalable EV charging billing. Tel Aviv-based Driivz says the network includes more than 600 public EV charging stations in Europe and North America.  Laval, Quebec-based Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., parent company of Circle …

For several years, MagicCube Inc. has worked to prove that merchants can safely and speedily accept card payments with no hardware other than an off-the-shelf mobile device. Now the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has added a new wrinkle to its strategy: agreements with device vendors that make MagicCube’s iAccept the …

Citcon USA LLC is partnering with Klarna AB to add Klarna’s payment services to its mobile wallet for in-store and online purchases. The move expands to Citcon merchants Klarna’s Pay in 4 buy now, pay later loans, as well as Klarna Pay in 30 and other Klarna financing products. Consumers …

Payments platforms have worked for years to find the key to winning and keeping merchants while also holding on to independent sales organizations, the agents that are key to signing up merchants. Now Netevia Group LLC thinks it’s found that key in banking. “It’s a pretty simple strategy,” says Vlad …

Oracle Corp. launched its Retail Payment Cloud Service to support contactless payments for U.S. retailers at fixed-fee rate pricing. Mercatus Technologies Inc. debuted an updated version of its mobile grocery shopping app that includes seamless cart building and checkout, personalization, rewards and loyalty, and third-party delivery service integrations. MobileCoin Inc. launched Moby, a …

Mexican quick-service restaurant chain Del Taco LLC is rolling out an artificial intelligence-based voice-ordering system from Presto Automation Inc. The new system is expected to fully automate orders placed at the drive-thru window, dramatically reducing the need for drive-thru staff to take orders. Lake Forest, Calif.-based Del Taco, which has …