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- Fuel retailer BP is installing automated checkout technology from Grabango in 10 convenience store locations, Grabango announced. Seven AMPM stations in California and three Amoco stores in Pennsylvania will have the technology operational by mid-2022. Consumers use a Grabango app to shop and pay without queuing for a checkout lane.
- Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB released a browser extension to enable consumers to shop and pay with Klarna even if the retailer is not a Klarna partner. Currently available for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers with support for Firefox and Safari coming, the extension uses one-time virtual Visa cards.
- Cryptocurrency-wallet provider BitPay Inc. said its merchants can now accept Shiba Inu for payment and consumers can buy, store, and swap the coin, which started out as an Internet meme.
- Payments gateway ConnexPay raised $20 million in a series B round led by the card-issuing platform Marqeta. With the round, ConnexPay has now raised $35 million.
- Payments provider Plastiq said it is working with PayGround, a payment app for patients, to allow patients to pay all of their health-care bills in a single app.
- Accounts-payable and mass-pay specialist Tipalti announced it raised $270 million in a series F round led by G Squared, valuing the company at $8.3 billion.
- Novi, the digital wallet from Meta, the Facebook parent company, said a group of U.S. users of WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned messaging app, can now send and receive money within WhatsApp.
- Mastercard Inc. announced a cohort of five startups joined its Mastercard Start Path Crypto program.
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