Buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB said it is expanding the geographic reach of its rewards program and its Pay Now service. The rewards program will be available in nine countries, with Pay Now expanding to nine new countries beyond the current base in the U.S. and U.K., where the immediate-payment …

Agriculture marketplace ProducePay launched Quick-Pay+, which allows growers to receive the bulk of payments from buyers 24 hours after shipments are received.RevoluGroup Canada Inc., which offers the RevoluPay payments app, concluded an oversubscribed private placement of shares valued at $2.187 million Canadian ($1.7 million).A French fintech called Vagopass introduced a Web application that allows …

American Express Co. said Delta Air Lines has adopted AmEx’s Plan It buy now, pay later service, allowing AmEx consumer card users to pay for Delta flights in equal monthly installments with a fixed fee. AmEx launched Plan It in 2017.Payments provider Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. said it is working with retail-technology developer …

Digital-currency payments specialist Circle Internet Financial LLC announced it has agreed to new terms with Concord Acquisition Corp., terminating an agreement it had reached with that company in July. The new agreement values Circle at $9 billion, twice the valuation set by the original SPAC combination. The holding company established by the original agreement …

Payments-technology firm Buy It Mobility launched BuyPass, a platform aimed at allowing merchants to more quickly launch automated clearing house and merchant-branded payments programs. BIM is working with network capabilities and virtual card technology from Discover Network to reduce the time and cost for merchant integration.Transaction-security firm Forter launched Smart Payments, a technology that uses the …

ACI Worldwide Inc. announced ACI PayAfter, a buy now, pay later service that provides merchants access to more than 70 BNPL providers via a single integration. “ACI PayAfter gives consumers one BNPL option—ACI PayAfter—displayed at checkout, one application form, and a single credit check, all while providing access to multiple financing …

Four-year-old payments provider F1 Payments announced it has changed its name to Corvia, effective immediately.Electronic funds transfer network Shazam announced it is offering DocuCommand, a document-management service, to client banks and credit unions.Mastercard Inc. said it expanded its partnership with Fearless Fund, a venture capital fund created by women of color for women of …

GoDaddy Inc. said its newly formed GoDaddy Payments unit has sold more than 1,000 point-of-sale devices and taken in “tens of thousands” of applications for the service from customers of the firm’s Web services. GoDaddy in September released a countertop payment terminal and mobile card reader, following the launch of GoDaddy Payments in June. …

U.S. retail sales in January, excluding automobile-related spending, grew 7.2% year-over-year, with online sales increasing 10.4%, according to the Mastercard SpendingPulse report. Sales were propelled by such factors as accumulated savings and wage growth, the report says.Payments-processing giant Global Payments Inc. reported revenue of $2.19 billion on a GAAP basis for the fourth quarter, …

Stripe Inc. said it will use technology from Celonis SE to improve its user onboarding process for e-commerce merchants.Payments provider Adyen NV said it will open technology hubs in Chicago and Madrid as it builds out a global processing platform. The company maintains more than 25 offices around the world.In related news, Adyen reported it processed …