Competitive Strategies

NMI announced early Tuesday it has acquired Fee Navigator, a provider of analysis for acquirers looking to price services for merchants. Terms were not disclosed. Schaumburg, Ill.-based NMI says the deal brings merchant-pricing capabilities supported by AI, adding to an arsenal of services the processor offers to independent sales organizations, independent …

MoneyGram has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin called MGUSD, furthering its move into blockchain technology for payments. Soar Payments LLC, also known as SoarPay, announced the publication of “High Risk Merchant Accounts 101,” a guide to processing payments for high-risk and regulated businesses. Fifth Third Bank launched Report Phishing, a feature in …

Early Warnings Services LLC told Digital Transactions News in March that a marketing push for its 3-year-old Paze online checkout platform would be starting in coming months. Early Monday, that push arrived with the launch of a national campaign running on TV, digital video, and social platforms. The new advertising …

Aurora Payments has renamed itself Flute and launched a payments platform that it says offers working capital, transaction reporting, and merchant servicing, along with payments, in a single account. Thunes said it has been selected by Canada-based payout platform Trolley to enable an expansion of Trolley’s international capabilities, including real-time payments to more …

Payments fraudsters are embracing not just the transaction, but the associated elements of a transaction, such as exploiting account creation and changes prior to the payment. That’s one reason Accertify Inc. launched its Predictive Yes Platform. Itasca, Ill.-based Accertify says the new platform addresses these issues by combining identity, behavioral, …

Replit Inc., a Foster City, Calif.-based developer of software for the booming agentic-commerce market, announced it will work with Visa Inc. on an integration of Visa agentic commerce into Replit’s platform. The company also reported an investment from Visa, terms of which were not specified. Visa, which launched its Intelligent …

Rego Payment Architectures Inc., whose technology allows financial institutions to offer banking services to families, announced an update to its Family Wallet platform to give parents control of children’s accounts directly through Rego’s platform. Fresha, a payments platform specializing in beauty and wellness businesses, said it is widening the capabilities …

BTR, a truck-rental company, has compensated for almost $400,000 in annualized credit card acceptance costs through a surcharging a capability provided by payments processor BlueSnap Inc., according to data the processor released Wednesday. Waltham, Mass.-based BlueSnap launched its surcharging API in January in recognition of cases in which merchants want …

Experian plc, most known among consumers as a credit-reporting agency, says it is collaborating with processor Fiserv Inc. on Experian Link, a service to make it easier for merchants to verify a consumer’s identity with debit card ownership data. Announced Wednesday, the cooperative endeavor will see Fiserv’s proprietary debit card …

Nium Pte. Ltd., a provider of cross-border payments technology, is working with Circle Internet in a collaboration using stablecoins for settlement and local currency for last-mile delivery of country-to-country transactions. The project aims to solve what the partners say is a longstanding problem—fast payments that can slow considerably when it’s …