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 …

Buy now, pay later platform Sezzle Inc. has sued Shopify Inc., alleging federal and state antitrust violations related to actions Sezzle says “stifle competition for [BNPL] service options on Shopify’s e-commerce platform.” The action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The Shopify platform will adopt a feature from …

PayPal Holdings Inc. has formed an integration with Selfbook, an AI-based booking application for hotels, allowing customers who check out with PayPal and Venmo to get access to savings on hotel rates, PayPal says. DealerLogix, a provider of scheduling and payments software for automobile service departments, said it has been certified …

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 …

Shift4 Payments Inc. named founder Jared Isaacman as its executive chairman effective Thursday. Isaacman had been nominated to lead NASA but last weekend President Trump withdrew that nomination. Taylor Lauber, who had been Shift4 president, moved to the chief executive position, Shift4 announced. Direct-to-consumer e-commerce provider ESW said its “Impact of Tariffs on …

Klarna AB has unveiled Klarna Card, a debit card offering the choice to pay immediately or later. The product incorporates the Visa Flexible Credential technology from Visa Inc. In other Visa news, the card network appointed Andrew Torre president of value-added services, replacing Antony Cahill, who has been appointed regional president and …

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman, Shift4 Payments Inc. founder and chief executive, as the nominee to lead NASA, the Associated Press reported. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “After a thorough review of prior associations I am hereby withdrawing the nomination of Jared …

Flexa, a payments platform based on digital assets, said it is working with wallet provider Nexus Wallet to simplify payments via the cryptocurrency Litecoin. The partnership is active at 41,000 retail locations in North America, the parties say. Stablecoin-based payments platform Stable Sea launched Stable Sea Terminal, said to be capable of …

Bluevine, a banking platform for small businesses, launched Invoicing and Payment Links, aimed at allowing businesses to receive payments directly in bank accounts via a range of payment methods. The buy now, pay later platform Affirm Inc. said it is expanding its partnership with the merchant Williams-Sonoma Inc. to Canada. Besides Williams-Sonoma, …

Global Payments Inc. has agreed to sell its payroll unit, Heartland Payroll Solutions, to insurance fintech Acrisure LLC for $1.1 billion. The business serves more than 50,000 clients. Castles Technology said it is working with PXP, a payments platform, to offer Android point-of-sale devices to merchants regardless of size. Some 73% of …