Fraud & Security

American Express Co. and the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced 50 restaurants will each get a $50,000 grant plus one year of free service from Resy, an AmEx company. The grants are part of the Backing Historic Small Restaurants program. Payments provider TouchSuite said it acquired a majority ownership in STG, a …

PayLaterr Inc., a bill-payment platform provider, has partnered with Experian to use the credit bureau’s advanced identity and behavioral analytics for fraud detection and to help consumers make better budgeting decisions. PayLaterr says it will integrate Experian’s fraud-detection tools and alternative credit-data solutions into its identity-verification and decision-making processes. PayLaterr …

U.S. payments fintech Payoneer Inc. announced it will work with Stripe Inc. to offer an improved Payoneer Checkout service for small and medum-size merchants, starting in the Asia-Pacific region. The collaboration will enable more payment methods, including buy now, pay later from Affirm Inc. and Klarna AB and digital wallets from Apple …

Circle Internet Group Inc. announced a public offering of 10 million shares of its Class A common stock, with 2 million shares offered by Circle and the balance by current shareholders. Circle on Tuesday unveiled Arc, a payments platform aimed at major money flows. Payments-technology provider Alacriti Inc. said Beginnings Credit Union has adopted …

Identity-intelligence platform provider Forter has launched a service that it says enables digital merchants to vet AI agents across the entire shopping process, including payment. The new capability within the Forter platform is intended to help merchants combat fraud in the artificial-intelligence era, which has seen the rise of AI …

NCR Atleos Corp. said convenience store chain Casey’s joined its Allpoint ATM network. Casey’s has more than 2,900 locations. In related news, NCR Atleos said it will provide “thousands” of new ATMs to FCTI Inc., an ATM owner-operator and subsidiary of Seven Bank Ltd.. FCTI is the sole ATM operator in U.S. 7-Eleven …

Darwinium, a provider of cybersecurity software, has rolled out two new modules aimed at enhancing its digital-security and fraud-prevention platform. The modules detect criminals’ use of malicious AI agents to bypass a business’s fraud prevention defenses. The two new modules, called Beagle and Copilot, simulate malicious AI-based attacks to distinguish …

Card91, a payments-software platform based in India, announced merchant onboarding and verification technology based on artificial intelligence and aimed at banks and payment aggregators. FreedomPay’s gateway will support e-commerce and in-store payments for restaurants as part of an agreement with Deliverect, a provider of commerce technology for fast-food chains, including Taco …

Embedded lending is rewriting the rules of how payments work, eliminating the need for separate credit approvals and enabling built-in financing directly into digital wallets and checkout processes. In the past year, 45% of Gen Z and Millennials used BNPL services, and these numbers are expected to rise. The global …

Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments service from Early Warning Services LLC, began a multi-city financial education training roadshow with Consumer Action, a consumer protection and financial awareness organization. Payments-technology provider Alacriti said Citizens Business Bank launched real-time payments services based on Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub. The services involve connections to FedNow and the …