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- The Canada-based commerce platform Shopify announced it has added the payments gateway Volt, allowing Shopify merchants in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Brazil to process real-time account-to-account payments.
- In related news, payments platform Netevia announced updates to its banking-services features, including free account-to-account transfers. The free period extends until the end of the year.
- Visa Inc. unveiled its Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Program to support payments startups on that continent.
- Payments platform Pay.com has agreed to use the MerchantView monitoring service from risk-intelligence firm EverC for merchant onboarding and for ongoing risk management.
- The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. said it is developing a report on “Post-Quantum Cryptography (POC) Assessment Guidelines,” and is seeking participants for the project.
- Identity risk-management firm Alloy is working with Astra, a technology provider for faster payments, to ease the onboarding process for Alloy clients in using Astra’s platform.
- Apple Inc. threatened to remove a social networking company called Damus from its App Store within 14 days if it does not shut down a feature that awards tips in Bitcoin to users outside of the app. Apple’s objection is reportedly not the use of Bitcoin but rather what it sees as a violation of its in-app purchase requirement.
- Repay Holdings Inc. added PayPal and Venmo digital wallets as payment options for their clients via a direct integration.
- Payments consulting and integration firm Yeeld named Greg Leos as an advisor and investor. Leos is chief sales officer at i2c Inc.
- Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB launched a tool to enable consumers to make top-up donations and expanded its carbon footprint tracking tool to include more product categories.
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