Paymentus Holdings Inc., a provider of cloud-based bill-payment technology, has reached an agreement with health-care information-technology provider Altera Digital Health Inc. to include its electronic bill- presentment and payments platform in Altera’s suite of healthcare IT solutions. The deal is expected to streamline the billing and payment processes for health-care providers …

The Illinois Retail Merchants Association released a survey late Wednesday showing that voters in the state support the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act passed earlier this year. The survey comes hard on the heels of a lawsuit filed last month by several organizations representing banks and credit unions challenging the …

Reaction from the payments industry to the Justice Department’s announcement Tuesday that it is suing Visa Inc. over antitrust issues involving its debit card business was swift and pointed. As expected, representatives of the payments industry denounced the lawsuit as baseless, while representatives of the merchant community and legislators friendly …

AppBrilliance Inc., a provider of real-time payments, has partnered with digital-wallet solutions provider Wallet Factory to enable real-time payments on Wallet Factory’s platform. Wallet Factory will use AppBrilliance’s Money API to enable payments on closed-loop digital wallets via The Clearing House’s RTP and the Federal Reserve’s FedNow networks. AppBrilliance launched …

Bluefin Payment Systems LLC expects its deal with processor Moneris Solutions Corp. will significantly streamline Canadian merchants’ payment card security through what the parties say is an enhanced point-to-point encryption solution. Under the terms of the deal, announced last week, Moneris will include point-to-point encryption (P2PE) capabilities in Bluefin’s PCI …

Payments play a bigger role than many might imagine in how hotels interact with guests—and can affect a wide array of hospitality revenue streams, says a report released late Thursday from the processor Adyen NV. Some 37% of respondents say they have abandoned the booking process because they weren’t able …

The Electronic Payments Coalition late Wednesday filed an Amicus brief on behalf of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The lawsuit, brought by Illinois Bankers Association, Illinois Credit Union League, American Bankers Association, and America’s Credit Unions and filed last month in the United …

Capchase, a financing platform that funds software-as-a-service companies based on future recurring revenue, announced early Wednesday a partnership with the processing giant Stripe Inc. to provide buy now, pay later financing for SaaS vendors in the United States. The deal, which marks Stripe’s entry into B2B BNPL in the U.S., will …

Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. early Tuesday launched Umo ScanRide, a QR-code-based fare-collection solution for transit systems. To pay a fare using ScanRide, consumers scan a QR code with a mobile phone. The fare is then displayed on the user’s phone screen and debited from her ScanRide wallet. Consumers can fund …

Retail chain Crate & Barrel Holdings has partnered with Adyen NV to process payments for its 110 physical stores in the United States and Canada. The deal also covers processing for Crate & Barrel’s CB2 stores, a sister brand that sells modern furniture. Crate & Barrel will use Adyen’s unified …