Acquiring

Prepaid card payments provider InComm announced it has acquired Gift Card Impressions, a provider of gift card packaging and solutions. Terms were not announced. Payments processor Adyen announced a direct application programming interface integration with Mastercard Inc.’s Account Updater service. Visa Inc. announced two initiatives to aid financial technology companies in …

Cash-oriented consumers are getting another option to shop online with the debut of Paysafe Group’s Paysafecash. And Apple Inc. recently tested an order-ahead feature for Apple Pay, according to a news report. London-based Paysafe , which Monday closed it deal to buy U.S. merchant acquirer iPayment, says Paysafecash is already live …

Harbortouch, a unit of Shift4 Payments, debuted Checkout, a point-of-sale system with features to aid retailers, including inventory tracking and management, time-clock and scheduling tools, and text and email marketing. Checkout is aimed at independent and small-chain retail stores, the company said. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating alleged insider …

Small merchants that use Square, Clover, or Lightspeed point-of-sale systems have a simpler way to get their products listed online and potentially reap better placement among Google search results following the integration of a service called Pointy into the three POS system providers. Pointy, based in Ireland, supplies merchants with …

Heartland Payment Systems, now a subsidiary of merchant acquirer Global Payments Inc., filed a lawsuit this week accusing its former chief executive Robert O. Carr of breach of fiduciary duty by giving a woman described as his girlfriend approximately $1 million to buy Heartland stock before Global Payments’s offer to …

Delaware will begin allowing single-game sports betting at three casinos starting June 5, the state announced on Thursday. The move makes Delaware only the second state to allow single-game bets and represents the latest result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down a 26-year-old law that …

Square Inc. updated its second-quarter and full-year guidance following its acquisition of e-commerce site provider Weebly Inc., which closed Friday. Square now expects its full-year revenue to range from $3.03 billion to $3.09 billion, up from $3 billion to $3.06 billion. For the second quarter, it forecasts $744 million to …

Parking management and payments provider ParkWhiz acquired CodiPark, an Israeli firm whose app allows users to pay for a parking space when they drive up to a garage, a function that adds to ParkWhiz’s pre-booking app. Terms were not announced. POSaBIT Ltd., a financial-technology company specializing in digital currency at the …

Generation Z is about to become a major force in financial services and payments, and that will change how payments providers market their services to them. That assertion, in the “Technologies Influencing Generation Z Payments Adoption” report released this week by Javelin Strategy & Research, is based, in part, on …

Point-of-sale system technology provider Revel Systems said it integrated customer-engagement software from Conduit Ltd., which uses the brand name Como, into its platform to bring to brick-and-mortar merchants services used by online retailers such as loyalty programs, analytics, branded mobile apps, in-app payments and other capabilities. Shift4 Payments LLC announced …