Payments provider Payroc WorldAccess LLC has agreed to pay $440 million to acquire the merchant-of-record payments business of i3 Verticals Inc., a provider of software and services to public and private companies. Afterpay, a buy now, pay later platform and part of Block Inc., said 82% of BNPL users said the service …

Visa Inc. unveiled Digital Emergency Card Replacement, a service that works on behalf of card issuers to replace lost cards with digital replacements, using text or email. Cardholders can store the replacement card in a digital wallet. Elavon launched Elavon Cloud Payments Interface, an application programming interface aimed at easing digital and …

The Canada-based processor Nuvei Corp. said it has received approval for a retail-services license from the central bank of the United Arab Emirates, laying the groundwork for an expansion into the UAE market. Fast-food chain Long John Silver’s said it is working with multiple technology vendors to update its digital and in-store ordering experience …

Samsung Next has invested an undisclosed sum in Curve UK Ltd, developer of a U.K.-based digital wallet, bringing Curve’s total raised funds to more than $250 million. ECS Fin, a developer of payment-processing technology, said Zenus Bank has adopted its IMS Payments capability to integrate Visa B2B Connect, a platform for …

U.S.-based Shift4 Payments Inc. has deepened its penetration of the European market through an agreement to partner with Stockholm-based digital-payments platform OneMoneyWay to offer small merchants in the United Kingdom and Europe a combined business and payments platform. Shift4 recently took a majority stake in Germany’s Vectron Systems, a point-of-sale technology company. Strider, …

Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. announced a promotional agreement with Visa Inc., involving benefits and offers for holders of Block Inc.’s Visa-branded Cash App debit card. CasaPerks Technologies Inc. has launched CasaCash, a rewards program that can be offered by property owners to renters as an alternative to a program based on credit …

PatientPay, a payments provider for the health-care industry, has partnered with health-care processor Higher Standards Inc. to make its end-to-end billing and payment-acceptance billing solution available to Higher Standards clients. The partnership grew out of Higher Standards’ need for a technology partner that could provide billing and payment technology to …

Shareholders in Nuvei Corp. approved the processor’s previously announced agreement to be acquired by Advent International LP for $34 per share in a move that will take the big processor private. The Financial Times reported that regulators in the European Union have accepted concessions from Apple Inc. that will allow competing payment platforms to access the …

U.S.-based payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. said its partnership with Stet, a Paris-based clearing and settlement system, processed more than 50 million real-time cross-border payments in the past 12 months. The companies expect that volume to grow more than 50% in the current year. Cross-border payments specialist Nium Pte. Ltd. said it is working …

What does Sound Payments do in the payments industry? Sound Payments is dedicated to listening to the voice of the customer to provide value-add innovative payment acceptance and point-of-sale technology solutions to ISOs and ISVs. Sound Payments is a software provider for niche markets and is processor agnostic. We have …