Card 91’s AI Gambit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/28/25

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 Bell, Burger King UK, and Little Caesars.
The U.S. government is now accepting PayPal and Venmo from citizens interested in making contributions intended to help pay down the national debt. The Treasury Department’s Pay.gov site recently added the two services to a list of payment methods that also includes bank account and credit or debit card.
Citicorp has released its Citi Strata Elite Card, a Mastercard rewards credit card that offers a multiple of 12 times on points for hotels, car rentals, and attractions when booked on the bank’s Citi Travel platform. The annual fee is $595.

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