Acquiring

Early Warning Services LLC, provider of Zelle and Paze, launched Certos, a suite of products to help financial institutions counter fraud and expand financial access in the U.S. banking system. Digital-currency platform Binance has introduced Binance Chat, a feature in its app that enables cryptocurrency transfers, messaging, and other functions. MegPrime, a …

Quantiiv, an AI-powered data warehouse and analytics platform for restaurants, has launched what it calls a virtual executive that provides restaurant managers with management insights, reportedly without having to navigate dashboards across disparate applications.    The application, known as ROGER, provides an email-based interface that allows managers to send the …

Bill-payment platform InvoiceCloud introduced its Billing Experience, which it says relies on AI throughout billing and payments operations. The peer-to-peer payments service Zelle named 10 MBA students as recipients of the Zelle Community Development & Entrepreneurship Scholarship, which was open to MBA students at five historically Black colleges and universities. PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo P2P payments …

As the number of U.S. consumers who have heard nothing at all about artificial intelligence continues to drop, organizations are preparing for the expected infusion of AI into everyday life. Payments companies are no exception. American Express Co. is releasing a software-development kit called Agentic Commerce Experiences to help consumers …

SpotOn Transact LLC, a specialist in hospitality payments, launched a service called Rapid Fund, which makes card deposits available within 30 minutes of batching out. It is also taking on a partnership with embedded-finance platform Parafin to operate SpotOn Capital. Both efforts are intended to aid restaurants looking to manage …

Already known for its payment-processing services to merchants, Payroc LLC has added Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union, with its more than 100,000 members, as a payment-processing client. Announced Monday, the partnership sees Tinley Park, Ill.-based Payroc serving the credit union’s business clients with point-of-sale systems, online payments, electronic invoicing, and other …

A partnership between Visa Inc. and insurance-technology firm Neat will allow cardholders in Europe to use new insurance services, including digital claims processing. Repay Holdings Corp. released a statement defending its $372-million deal to acquire Kubra Data Transfer Ltd., announced March 31. The statement responds to objections from Repay investor Veradace Partners, which …

Square, Block Inc.’s point-of-sale payments unit, continues to focus on growing its POS business in the wake of its decision earlier this year to reduce its workforce by more than 40%. The latest deal is an expansion of an existing relationship with Birch Coffee, a New York City-based coffee chain. …

Two venues at Resorts World Las Vegas will adopt point-of-sale technology from Ordr Technologies. Salt Lake City, Utah-based Ordr says the Zouk Nightclub and Ayu Dayclub venues at the Resorts World property will take advantage of Ordr’s artificial intelligence-capable POS system to unify all elements of the transaction, including the …