Visa Inc. announced early Thursday it will launch account-to-account (A2A) payment capabilities in the United Kingdom in early 2025. The move will allow U.K. consumers paying bills to do so directly from their bank account, as opposed to paying by check, cash, or card. Visa’s plans for the service, called …

With cash back as a favored consumer reward, PayPal Holdings Inc. is broadening its use with the debut of PayPal Everywhere, a rewards program for consumers on the PayPal Debit Mastercard. Announced Thursday, the program includes stackable cash-back offers and personalized ways to manage spending. It enables PayPal Debit cardholders …

Payments-technology provider Opus Technologies Inc. has launched Paysemble, a suite of apps that are meant to streamline payment integration for financial institutions and merchants. A cloud-based solution, Paysemble allows businesses to consolidate payments from multiple channels through interoperable message hubs, configurable security, and batch processing. As a result, businesses can …

Electronic Merchant Systems LLC is teaming up with LegitScript to give its health-care merchants access to a certification tag, while InvoiceCloud says Western National Insurance Group picked it for a new digital-payment and policyholder-relations service. Cleveland-based EMS, which processes approximately $6 billion in annual volume for 25,000 merchants, says the …

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has partnered with payment processor Moov Financial Inc. to enable financial institutions to offer small and medium-size businesses enhanced digital-payment services. The partnership is expected to help financial institutions attract more smaller businesses as clients and strengthen existing relationships with such sellers by providing for …

PayPal Holdings Inc. has expanded its relationship with the big processor Fiserv Inc. to make its payment options more readily available to Fiserv clients in the United States. The move with Fiserv is expected to simplify connectivity for Fiserv clients to PayPal and Venmo payment apps and make it easier …

TrustCommerce says the first client to use its Cloud Payments integration with Epic Systems Corp.’s health-care software for card-present payments is now live. Chicago-based TrustCommerce says The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is the first to use its Cloud Payments integration. Cloud Payments uses Android-based point-of-sale devices from PAX …

Bitget, a cryptocurrency platform that allows investors to buy and trade cryptocurrencies and altcoins, has expanded the payment options for its digital wallets to include Apple Pay and Google Pay. The addition of Apple Pay and Google Pay, which have a combined user base of more than 650 million, is …

InvoiceASAP Inc., a provider of invoicing and payment technology for small and medium-size businesses, has partnered with Adyen NV to provide merchants instant access to deposited funds. InvoiceASAP will leverage Adyen for Platforms, an end-to-end payments and customer-experience platform, to offer its 23,000 merchants immediate access to pending funds and …

SocketMobile Inc., a provider of mobile data-capture solutions, has launched a countertop QR-code payment reader to enable consumer-presented QR-code operations. The device, called the SocketScan S320, was developed in response to consumer demand for QR-code technology at the point-of-sale, the company says. The global payment market for QR codes totaled …