Financial-technology provider Finastra said it is incorporating Visa Direct, a real-time push-payment capability developed by Visa Inc., as a cross-border payout offering for banks.Coinsquare, a crypto asset trading platform based in Canada, said it has agreed to acquire Simply Digital Technologies Inc., owner of the CoinSmart trading platform and a unit of …

Netcetera, a provider of digital-payments software, has joined Mastercard Engage, the card company’s global partner network.Canada-based payments provider OTT Pay Inc. has expanded to the U.S. market to offer a cross-border payments platform for global e-commerce merchants.Technologies such as smart phones and the Internet will drive digital payments volume to $19.89 trillion …

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the agency will begin to identity potential “interpretive guidance or rules to issue with the goal of ensuring that Buy Now, Pay Later firms adhere to many of the baseline protections that Congress has already established for credit cards.” This …

In an effort to combat the rise of financial crimes, such as fraud, Socure Inc. has enhanced its know your customer (KYC) identity-verification solution. Socure says the update gives customers stronger tools—such as reason codes and field-validation intelligence, which tests the results of machine-learning models against live data—to verify the …

Cross-border payments are a huge business. Here’s what banks and a handful of non-bank specialists are learning from fintechs about how to get better at it. Whether it’s a transaction initiated by an overseas worker sending money home or a business sending a payment to an out-of-country supplier, the dollar …

While the Federal Reserve mulls the concept of a national digital dollar, private-sector actors are working toward the same end. The Digital Dollar Project early Wednesday launched what it calls a Technical Sandbox Program in an effort, it said, to help advance understanding of the technical requirements undergirding a central …

Alphabet Inc. said it is expanding Google Wallet to six more countries, including South Africa, bringing to 45 the number of countries in which the product can be used. Google Wallet was introduced this spring as a replacement for Google Pay.Transaction processor Computer Services Inc. said it will be acquired by private investment firms Centerbridge …

While the recent partnership between fintech Wise US Inc., which specializes in cross-border payments, and Plaid Inc. is another example of the momentum open banking is gaining globally, one overlooked element of the deal is the role the open-banking standard developed by the Financial Data Exchange played in making the …

Shift4 Payments Inc. has long made no secret of its plans to expand the average size of the merchants it serves, but early on Thursday its chief executive made the company’s overarching strategy crystal clear following recent signings of such international clients as Time Inc. and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite business, …

PayGround, a payments fintech specializing in health care, completed a $5.5-million funding round led by FCA Venture Partners and Lewis & Clark Ventures. The financing follows a $4-million seed round for PayGround last year.Chargebacks911 said its partnership with FIS Inc.’s Worldpay unit now includes Disputes Deflector, a set of chargeback and …