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In the first six weeks after The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC on Feb. 9 raised its real-time payments transaction limit from $1 million to $10 million, transactions of more than $1 million accounted for more than half the value of all real-time payments processed at Bank of America Corp., one of …

Fiserv Inc. said it has agreed to acquire the 49.9% share of Ireland-based AIB Merchant Services it doesn’t already own. The joint venture between the two companies dates back to 2007. CPACharge, an online payment service for accounting professionals from AffiniPay, has a new partnership with SafeSend, a service for tax …

Authvia, a platform for conversational commerce and payment by text, will work with Sinch, developer of cloud-based customer communications, to allow businesses to offer mobile-payments capability within messaging platforms such as SMS and WhatsApp. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it is expanding its processing capabilities in the travel industry through an alliance …

Payments platform Blackhawk Network announced it will work with Exchange Solutions, an offers service, to develop loyalty programs for businesses. An American Express Co. and Forbes Insight survey found that 73% of consumers choose a credit card as their preferred payment method followed by debit card, 56%, and cash, 50%. The survey canvassed 2,507 …

Compliance services provider LegitScript released a suite of services to help with merchant risk management. Among them is its Xray AI Risk Intelligence platform that can help with scanning merchant Web sites for card network violations, automatically detecting merchant category codes, and matching merchants against LegitScript’s risk intelligence database. Visa Inc. is working …

Separate stockholder meetings for Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services voted to approve Capital One’s proposed acquisition of Discover, a deal that was first proposed a year ago. Cap One says it now expects the $35.3-billion transaction to close early this year, subject to approval from the Federal Reserve System’s Board of …

FIS Inc. said it is one of the first fintechs certified to offer send capability on credit transfers through the FedNow real-time payments network, operated by the Federal Reserve. The company is offering the new service to bank clients for use by both consumers and commercial clients. Hospitality point-of-sale services specialist Olo said …

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to have signed a deal with Visa Inc. for the card brand to be a partner in XMoney Account, the platform’s possible payments service, reported CNBC.com. Fuel discount platform GasBuddy launched its Pay with GasBuddy+ card issued by Fifth Third Bank N.A. bearing the …

Magtek launched its Magensa Cloud Service eCommerce line of software, which it developed with PAAY, a provider of technology that authenticates consumer transactions. Payroc said it has combined its payment-processing capabilities with electric-vehicle chargers from EVMode and payment readers from UIC to offer a new EV charging platform. HTeaO, an iced-tea franchise, …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued credit reporting agency Experian over claims it unlawfully failed to properly investigate consumer disputes. In a statement, Experian says the lawsuit is without merit. “It is contrary to longstanding regulatory and judicial precedent and is another example of irresponsible overreach by the CFPB. Our legal position …