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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, the merchant’s brands include West Elm, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Teen, Pottery Barn Kids, and Mark & Graham.
  • The payments-orchestration provider Gr4vy has launched Gr4vy Insights, said to be a platform offering merchants a view of their payments data.
  • The increasing popularity of bank and credit card mobile apps has made the various apps hard to tell apart for consumers, according to recent studies from J.D. Power.
  • Conduit, a cross-border payments platform based on stablecoins, closed on a $36-million Series A funding round co-led by Dragonfly and Altos Ventures.
  • In related news, Rain, an issuer of stablecoin-backed cards and a Visa Principal Member, said it has integrated with the crypto platforms Solana, Tron, and Stellar in a move aimed at widening the availability of crypto card programs.
  • Payouts Network, a business-to-consumer payments provider, has appointed Judson Preuss chief product officer. Preuss joins the company from ConnexPay.
  • The cryptocurrency wallet Bitget announced it will work with Coinpal, a crypto payments platform for more than 6,000 merchants, to help boost crypto as an e-commerce payment method.
  • Pavilion Payments appointed gaming-industry veteran Brock Moorehouse vice president of customer success.

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