NCR Voyix Corp. has agreed to serve as the exclusive point-of-sale technology provider for Pizza Ranch Inc. at both company-owned and franchise locations. The chain operates 221 restaurants across 15 states. Cambria County Transit Authority in Pennsylvania said it has worked with transit-technology platform  Modeshift to launch an account-based fare-collection platform throughout its network. …

Klarna AB said its PriceRunner price-comparison service has won $1.97 billion in damages in its case against Google. PriceRunner had accused the online search giant of exercising preferential treatment for its own comparison shopping platform, causing lost revenue for PriceRunner. Klarna acquired PriceRunner in 2022 for $124.36 million. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. …

Payments platform Repay Holdings Corp. reported it has received a revised, unsolicited and non-binding offer from Forager Capital Management LLC to acquire the company’s outstanding shares at $5.25 per share, in cash. Repay says its board is reviewing the offer. The proposal follows an offer in April from Forager at $4.80 per …

DLocal Ltd., an international provider of payments technology, has been added to the U.S. small-cap Russell 2000 Index. In the U.S. market, the company links local merchants to markets in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Banking platform Personetics said its AI-enabled platform is now integrated with Fiserv Inc.’s Experience Digital platform for …

Processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said it will work with Google Cloud to introduce an AI-based security service for financial institutions to enable faster issue resolution and support routine operations. Elon Musk’s X social-media platform has started to roll out the X Money payment service to more users to elicit feedback and correct …

Payment card issuer CPI Card Group Inc. said it has acquired instant-issuance technology from HID Global Corp. The all-cash deal closed June 23, CPI said, though price and other terms were not announced. Affirm Holdings Inc. said retailer Backcountry will add Affirm as a payment method on Backcountry.com and its other sites. Mastercard …

The American Arbitration Association, working with Integra Ledger and other companies, announced the launch of the Legal Context Protocol for agentic commerce. The participants say the protocol constitutes an open standard for legal terms, consent, and dispute resolution for transactions performed by AI agents on behalf of people and organizations. Fraud prevention …

PCI Pal has launched a passkey customer authentication service that it says allows merchants to verify customer identity at the start of a transaction. Fraud prevention specialist Scamnetic rebranded its IDeveryone Payment Protection division as PayVerify. Integrated Research launched Iris for Card Payments, AI technology that it says assists payments companies in detecting transaction …

MoneyGram joined the Solana blockchain system and is part of the Solana Developer Platform. MoneyGram launched its MGUSD stablecoin earlier this month. Stablecoin blockchain Plasma launched Plasma One, an everyday stablecoin-spending capability, in its mobile app. KuCoin’s KuCoin Pay, a payments service based on cryptocurrency, said it is expanding its payments offering, based on recognition of …

MassPay, a payment platform enabling businesses to send payments globally, said it has integrated three new services via agreements with providers—account name inquiry, account validation services, and bank account and name validation. Young Kim, a U.S. Congresswoman from California, has proposed the Strengthening Transaction Oversight and Preventing Payments Fraud Act, aimed at allowing …