Marqeta Inc. said it will acquire TransactPay, a processor operating in the United Kingdom and Europe. In related news, Marqeta said its board has appointed chief financial officer Mike Milotech as interim chief executive. He will continue in the CFO role. He succeeds Simon Khalaf, who has resigned as CEO and as a …

Sightline Payments, a specialist in payments for the gaming industry, announced it has completed a recapitalization, with participation from “most” existing major investors. The 15-year-old company estimates the U.S. digital gaming industry at $30 billion in annual revenue. Generation Z is overwhelmingly adopting digital-payment methods, with 92% using peer-to-peer payment …

Cybersecurity provider VikingCloud Inc. announced a multiyear agreement with processor Fiserv Inc. to help small and medium-size merchants counter cyber risks. Cross-border remittance provider DolFinTech said it will work with payments platform Green Dot Corp. to offer a direct-deposit account based on Green Dot’s embedded-finance capabilities and related services. American Express Co. said its eligible …

Thesis, a venture-financing platform, said its client Fold Holdings Inc. has become the first Bitcoin-related company to go public on the Nasdaq. Fold, trading under the symbol FLD, enables users to earn Bitcoin as rewards on ordinary purchases. Payments processor RevitPay appointed Jack Berry chief revenue officer. Berry formerly was an executive with PaymentCloud. …

New West Technologies Inc. has launched PayFusion365, which relies on an integration of payment processor Braintree with Microsoft Dynamics 365 that is expected to offer merchants the ability to more readily divide payments among retail, e-commerce, subscription, and other uses. Braintree is a unit of PayPal Holdings Inc. Users of the Venmo payments …

For financial institutions that have so far adopted real-time payments, 58% have opted for both FedNow and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s RTP system. But only 41% of large banks and 28% of businesses agree that the United States is moving fast enough toward adoption of faster payments. This is …

Separate stockholder meetings for Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services voted to approve Capital One’s proposed acquisition of Discover, a deal that was first proposed a year ago. Cap One says it now expects the $35.3-billion transaction to close early this year, subject to approval from the Federal Reserve System’s Board of …

CellPoint Digital Holdings Ltd. introduced a new payment-orchestration platform aimed at simplifying travel payments and related orders and offers. Merchant data provider Spade Data Inc. said it will work with Bilt Rewards, a loyalty provider for home and rent payments, to provide more merchant details to Bilt users. PSQ Holdings Inc. said it has …

InComm Payments, which has launched the Mastercard Give Hope gift card, has agreed to donate to the American Red Cross $2 from the purchase price of each card sold on mastercardgiftcard.com. Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., a developer of payments technologies for mass-transit systems, announced it is opening an innovation center …

EasyPark Group, a provider of technology that allows drivers to find and pay for parking, said it has acquired rival parking app developer Parkopedia. Terms were not announced. The health-care fintech Veuu Inc. announced it will work with Wipro Ltd., a consulting company, to develop an instant-payment service for transactions between payers …