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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, …

The Federal Trade Commission’s negative option rule, or click to cancel rule, for subscription management, has been struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit because the FTC did not follow procedures for creating the rule, The Hill reported. The rule was set to start July 14, having been delayed …

Scams continue to get top billing when it comes to favored fraud attempts, closely followed by account takeovers, finds the NiCE Actimize U.S. version of its Fraud Insights Report. Released Monday, the report found that, of the NiCE Actimize data analyzed, 57% of fraud attempts were scams with account takeovers …

ATM producer and network-services provider NCR Atleos Corp. announced Monday that InComm Payments has adopted its ReadyCode application programming interface to enable cardless cash pick-ups at more than 23,000 U.S. ATMs. Atlanta-based NCR Atleos says ReadyCode-enabled ATMs are located inside retailers in 40 states. InComm, also based in Atlanta, provides …

In the first six weeks after The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC on Feb. 9 raised its real-time payments transaction limit from $1 million to $10 million, transactions of more than $1 million accounted for more than half the value of all real-time payments processed at Bank of America Corp., one of …

Fiserv Inc. said it has agreed to acquire the 49.9% share of Ireland-based AIB Merchant Services it doesn’t already own. The joint venture between the two companies dates back to 2007. CPACharge, an online payment service for accounting professionals from AffiniPay, has a new partnership with SafeSend, a service for tax …

Authvia, a platform for conversational commerce and payment by text, will work with Sinch, developer of cloud-based customer communications, to allow businesses to offer mobile-payments capability within messaging platforms such as SMS and WhatsApp. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it is expanding its processing capabilities in the travel industry through an alliance …

Payments platform Blackhawk Network announced it will work with Exchange Solutions, an offers service, to develop loyalty programs for businesses. An American Express Co. and Forbes Insight survey found that 73% of consumers choose a credit card as their preferred payment method followed by debit card, 56%, and cash, 50%. The survey canvassed 2,507 …

Compliance services provider LegitScript released a suite of services to help with merchant risk management. Among them is its Xray AI Risk Intelligence platform that can help with scanning merchant Web sites for card network violations, automatically detecting merchant category codes, and matching merchants against LegitScript’s risk intelligence database. Visa Inc. is working …

Separate stockholder meetings for Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services voted to approve Capital One’s proposed acquisition of Discover, a deal that was first proposed a year ago. Cap One says it now expects the $35.3-billion transaction to close early this year, subject to approval from the Federal Reserve System’s Board of …