Sports-betting payments specialist PayNearMe Inc. said it has gained approval from the New York Gaming Commission to provide its MoneyLine platform to licensed operators in that state.Fly Now Pay Later, a buy now, pay later provider for travel services, closed a $75 million debt funding round from Atalaya Capital Management that will …

Transactions on prepaid cards worldwide reached $2.3 trillion last year and will exceed $4.1 trillion in 2026, according to Juniper Research. Over the same time span, fee revenue will grow from $22 billion to $32 billion.Payments fintech AppTech Payments Corp. said it closed on a $15-million public offering and announced its listing on the …

U.S. Bank said it will launch in the first quarter a real-time payments component to its bill service. It will use the Request for Payment tool that is part of The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s Real Time Payments service. The same service launched for U.S. Bank business customers in November.Cloud-software …

Fintech VeriCheck Inc. announced it has acquired Applied Payments LLC, which does business as ACHWorks, a payment-services provider specializing in automated clearing house transactions. Terms were not announced.Buy now, pay later provider Afterpay Ltd. said in-store shopping from its customers soared 384% year-over-year for the Oct. 1 to Dec. 27 period. Afterpay, available in …

Rev USA, a unit of Rev Worldwide Inc., announced a nationwide launch for its X World Wallet, app-based account that includes features such as loyalty and travel bookings and can be linked to physical and digital Visa cards.Computer Services Inc., a payments processor for financial institutions and corporate clients, reported …

A Cantaloupe Inc. study found that 67% of consumers who own cryptocurrency are willing to use it for purchases if it were linked to a mobile wallet. The study had responses from more than 2,000 U.S. adults.Card maker SmartMetric Inc. said it created a credit card with a built-in fingerprint sensor. The card contains …

Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. announced it has acquired payments-technology provider Payix for $95 million at closing plus up to $20 million in earnouts contingent on Payix’s 2022 performance.Mobile-parking app provider ParkMobile LLC said an agreement with the city of Clarksville, Tenn., covers 234 on- and off-street spaces in the city’s downtown. ParkMobile claims …

LINGA rOS, a provider of restaurant point-of-sale technology, said it will work with Evertec Inc., a payments processor concentrated in the Caribbean and Latin America, to serve the hospitality market in those regions.Unattended payments provider Cantaloupe Inc. announced Enhance, an artificial intelligence and machine learning technology-based service from Hivery, a data-science company, …

PayByPhone Technologies said it launched its parking-payments app in 25 additional locations in 2021, including 21 cities and four universities. Globally, the app is available in more than 1,000 cities and processes more than $550 million in payments annually.Aderant, a business management software provider, announced a partnership with LawPay that will …

Shares in Web-services company GoDaddy Inc. rose more than 8% on Monday on the news that Starboard Value had bought a 6.5% stake in the company, which last year acquired payments-technology firm Poynt Inc. to launch its GoDaddy Payments unit. Green Dot Corp. and ACI Worldwide Inc. are two other payments companies in Starboard’s portfolio.LawPay, a …