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 …
Read More »Fiserv Buys Rest of AIB and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/6/25
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 …
Read More »Isaacman Moves to Executive Chairman and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/5/25
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 …
Read More »Klarna’s New Klarna Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/3/25
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 …
Read More »Isaacman Grounded from NASA and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/2/25
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 …
Read More »Flexa Teams with Nexus Wallet and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/30/25
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 …
Read More »Bluevine Launches Payment Links and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/29/25
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, …
Read More »Global Offloading Payroll Unit with Thredd and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/28/25
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 …
Read More »Transcard Partners with Thredd and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/27/25
Apple Inc. said it is expanding Tap to Pay on iPhone to eight additional European countries. Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments using an iPhone and a payments-acceptance app with no additional hardware. Payments-orchestration platform Transcard LLC announced it will work with the processor Thredd Group Ltd. to expand Transcard’s capabilities …
Read More »CIMB Bank Picks ACI for Payments Update and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/23/25
Payments-technology provider ACI Worldwide Inc. announced CIMB Bank, said to be the second-largest financial-services provider in Malaysia, has opted for ACI’s services to merge all of the bank’s account-to-account transactions onto a single platform. Bitget Wallet unveiled a new logo as part of an ad campaign to advertise its position as a crypto …
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