Restaurant-payments provider SpotOn has launched Picked for You, an AI-powered system that SpotOn says personalizes digital menus on behalf of restaurants in an effort to drive higher tickets. Working with Idex Biometrics, Mastercard Inc. is launching in Bangladesh its metal credit card, which includes technology supporting fingerprint authentication for in-store transactions. The issuer is …

U.S. processor Worldpay Inc. announced it is establishing acquiring services in Thailand, furthering its operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Digital wallet Curve said it will work with the technologist Thales on Curve Pay for iOS, a mobile payment service that enables users to rely on their iPhone’s NFC chip to make contactless payments. Banking technology provider Alkami …

Grocery-delivery platform Instacart launched its Caper Carts at Wegmans Dewitt store in Syracuse, N.Y. The technology lets customers track spending while streamlining checkout through a network of cameras, digital scales, and location sensors. Mogo Inc. said it is investigating stablecoins to help support its payments platform, which handles more than $12 billion annually …

Risk management company EverC launched its Instant Onboarding service to help payment providers speed up and better manage the merchant onboarding process. Black Dragon Capital said it will work with Velera, a payments-based credit union service organization, in an effort to start and grow fintechs that can help credit unions. Tyfone Inc., …

Klarna AB said an exclusive agreement with checkout and payments provider Bolt Financial Inc. will allow Klarna to integrate its payment options with Bolt’s CheckoutOS. The move is expected to allow merchants to offer Klarna’s payment options directly at checkout. Bolt says more than 80 million consumers use its one-click checkout …

Skyfire, a provider of payment and identity technology for AI agents, has launched AI Agent Checkout, technology said to be programmed specifically for transactions conducted via AI agents. Payments-software developer Weave Communications Inc. has appointed Adrian McDermott to its board of directors. McDermott is chief technology officer at ZenDesk.

In partnership with Xsolla, a provider of videogame-commerce platforms, Affirm Inc. has agreed to offer its payments options through online-game developers. Square, a unit of Block Inc. released its Square Handheld device in the United Kingdom. Square launched the device in May in the United States. Stablecoin-card issuer Rain said it will work with Toku, a …

Xero Ltd., an accounting and payments firm, announced it will acquire the payments platform Melio Inc. for $2.5 billion upfront, with another $500 million in payments tied to performance targets. The commerce platform NuOrder by Lightspeed launched Order Trends, a compilation of statistics aimed at informing merchants’ buying decisions. Canada-based fintech Nuvei Corp. said …

The commerce platform NuOrder by Lightspeed said it will work with Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman as part of an expanded agreement with Saks Global. In related news, Lightspeed Commerce Inc. said it will integrate reservations software from Whoosh for golf and club clients using Lightspeed’s payments platform. Shift4 Payments Inc. said it has yet …

Payments provider Payroc said it will support payments programs for business clients of Republic Bank of Chicago. The collaboration will include smart point-of-sale technology, contactless payments, and real-time analytics. DNA Payments said it will work with retail point-of-sale technology provider MWC Partners to launch what they say will be a series of payment …