Automated Clearing House

Worldpay LLC announced it will continue processing payments for Henry Schein One under a new long-term contract. A dental-software house, Henry Schein One, serves 75,000 practices. Worldpay is in the process of becoming part of Global Payments Inc. Private-equity firm GTCR has acquired Innovative Systems, a 27-year-old provider of payments and bill-processing software. …

Technology provider Q2 Holdings Inc. announced Open Payment Network is its first partner to offer integration for Q2 Instant Payments Manager, a product aimed at banks looking to manage real-time payment workflows. Canada-based payments provider Corpay Inc. announced its cross-border platform has become the official foreign-exchange partner to the New Zealand Football club. Klear.ai, …

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, …

Same-day automated clearing house payments continue to enjoy robust growth, totaling 336.4 million transactions during the second quarter, a 15% increase compared to a year earlier, says Nacha, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network. Same-day ACH dollar volume during the quarter totaled $980 billion, up 22%. Through the …

U.S. processor Worldpay Inc. announced it is establishing acquiring services in Thailand, furthering its operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Digital wallet Curve said it will work with the technologist Thales on Curve Pay for iOS, a mobile payment service that enables users to rely on their iPhone’s NFC chip to make contactless payments. Banking technology provider Alkami …

The U.S. services industry is huge—more than 135 million Americans in the field, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics—and ensuring they are paid is a key role for the payments industry. Two payments companies are helping with new services. Digital tipping platform eTip’s integration with Visa Direct allows …

Buy now, pay later platform Sezzle Inc. has sued Shopify Inc., alleging federal and state antitrust violations related to actions Sezzle says “stifle competition for [BNPL] service options on Shopify’s e-commerce platform.” The action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The Shopify platform will adopt a feature from …

Curve has launched Curve Pay on the iOS operating system for European consumers, becoming the first payments technology to use the iPhone’s NFC interface following Apple Inc.’s agreement with the European Commission to open that interface to competing services. U.S. Bank has issued a Visa debit card cobranded with Gonzaga University and aimed at …

Zoho Corp., an Indian multinational software company, is launching Zoho Payments in the United States. Zoho Payments is an embedded-payments solution that enables businesses to collect one-time and recurring payments from customers, online and within Zoho apps.  Billed by Zoho as an out-of-the box payment solution, Zoho Payments supports the …

SoundHound AI Inc. said of the 94% of U.S. consumers who use voice assistants while driving or have voice assistants available 77% would rather place their orders using an in-car voice assistant rather than wait in a traditional drive-thru lane. The survey, conducted by research firm Big Village, included responses from …