Corporate card issuer Corpay announced it is selling off a fuel-card portfolio in a deal it says will bring in $60 million and free up $35 million in working capital, funds the company says will aid its $2.2 billion acquisition of Alpha Group International plc., a United Kingdom-based banking company. Pumpkin Insurance …
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With merchants growing more heated in their opposition to card-acceptance costs, processors are looking for strategies that could help sellers gain from improvements in card authorizations. An example emerged early Thursday with news from the big Canadian processor Nuvei Corp. that it has introduced a pair of technologies it says …
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Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments service from Early Warning Services LLC, began a multi-city financial education training roadshow with Consumer Action, a consumer protection and financial awareness organization. Payments-technology provider Alacriti said Citizens Business Bank launched real-time payments services based on Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub. The services involve connections to FedNow and the …
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Fiserv Inc. early Wednesday reported $10.65 billion in revenue for the first half of 2025, representing a 7% increase from the first six months of 2024, but it was a revised projection for revenue growth for the whole year that drew the attention of equity analysts on a group call …
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Corpay agreed to acquire Alpha Group International plc for $2.2 billion. Alpha Group provides technology to manage cross-border foreign exchange. Fraud prevention and identity verification specialist Socure released its Dispute Abuse Score, a service designed to predict the likelihood individuals will abuse dispute processes. TD Bank’s Merchant Solutions unit agreed to use Fiserv Inc. technology, …
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It’s a busy time in the point-of-sale arena as three vendors—GrabScanGo, Square, and Verifone—note new products, customers, and features. GrabScanGo, the product name for GSG AveriGo LLC, says it has made its self-checkout platform a plug-and-play installation. Cerritos, Calif.-based GrabScanGo says the self-checkout platform, already in use in hotel brands such …
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Affirm Inc. said it will offer its installment-payment services to customers of New Look Vision Group in Canada. The company operates 475 stores in Canada and the United States. Payments platform Payroc announced it has agreed to acquire LedgerPay Inc., which does business as PayiQ. With the acquisition, Payroc says it will gain …
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Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology unit announced it is entering the health-care market with Clover PracticePay. Clover worked with Rectangle Health, a developer of payments software for the health-care industry, on the launch. Mastercard Inc. and American Airlines said they have agreed to extend a longstanding agreement under which Mastercard supports a cobranded …
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The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the GENIUS Act, a bill aimed at regulating stablecoins, giving the nascent digital currency a boost as a mainstream payment option. The GENIUS (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins) Act is intended to provide a legal structure for stablecoins and enhance …
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In the almost 15 years since its debut, Clover, the point-of-sale system from Fiserv Inc., has reached 4 million devices sold, Fiserv says. Acquired by First Data Corp. in 2012, Clover started in 2010 as a point-of-sale service with hardware and software. Now, its devices and software are part of …
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