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A startup rent-payment processor called RentSpree closed on $17.3 million in Series B funding led by Green Visor Capital. The company projects it will process more than $160 million in rent payments over the next 12 months.Truist Financial Corp. launched Truist Invest and Truist Invest Pro, an automated investment advisory service and a …

To make modern fraud detection technology more accessible to community banks, Jack Henry & Associates Inc. late Thursday announced plans to launch early next year Financial Crimes Defender, a cloud-native platform for detecting fraud and other suspicious account activity that can hurt consumer’s financial health, as well as financial crimes, such …

Digital payments are on the rise, and so is payment fraud. As of 2020, nearly 80% of Americans used at least one form of digital payment. Between 2020 and 2021, payment fraud attacks rose dramatically on digital wallets (200%), payment service providers (169%) and crypto exchanges (140%). To keep up …

The buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. reported gross merchandise volume for its June quarter totaled $4.4 billion, up 77% year-over-year. For the year ended June 30, volume came to $15.5 billion, up 87%. Active merchants ballooned from 29,000 a year ago to 235,000, driven by Shop Pay Installments, an Affirm …

Visa Inc. announced late Wednesday it has now issued more network tokens than there are physical Visa cards, eight years after the launch of the Visa Token Service. With a boom in e-commerce and other digital applications, the service has now issued more than 4 billion tokens, Visa said, almost …

Systemwide contactless-fare technology, which has been available mainly for mass-transit systems in major cities, is starting to find its way into smaller towns. Cubic Corp. on Tuesday  said it will install its Umo mobility platform in buses serving the Canadian town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, population 72,000. The system, …

Square announced early Tuesday its first integration in the United Kingdom of Clearpay, a buy now, pay later service known as Afterpay outside the U.K. and Europe. Square, the point-of-sale payments unit of San Francisco-based Block Inc., said the latest move is also its first major integration of BNPL in …

Fraud-management platform Riskified Ltd. is partnering with Aurus Inc., a payments-platform provider. The deal will enable merchants relying on the Aurus platform to know in real time across multiple sales channels whether to accept or reject an order, which in turn can potentially increase approval rates and reduce fraud costs, …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed a petition with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking to require Block Inc. to fully comply with the CFPB’s demands for information related to Block’s Cash App product, according to Bloomberg. Block said it is “disappointed” with the action and …

Payments provider Celero Commerce has acquired Community Bankers Merchant Services, a provider of electronic transaction processing through community and regional banks across the country. Terms of the deal, announced late Thursday, were not disclosed. The acquisition of CBMS will open the door for Celero to provide processing services to merchants …