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Vesta, a fraud-prevention provider for e-commerce merchants, said it will integrate Stripe Inc.’s Radar risk scores and Stripe Connect, which enables businesses to facilitate purchases and payments between third-party buyers and sellers, into its Payment Guarantee platform. The Stripe Radar integration will help Vesta’s client merchants increase transactional approval rates …

As 2023 winds down, Juniper Research is out with its top 10 trends for payments and fintechs in 2024. Chief among them is a challenge to cards in e-commerce and funding for wallets through account-to-account payments. Closely related is the prospect for FedNow, the nascent real-time payment service from the …

Shift4 Payments Inc. extended its reach in stadium payments Wednesday by partnering with the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium to process payments for ticket sales for Dolphins games and other events at the stadium. The deal builds on Shift4’s integration with Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC, which was …

Small businesses claim they have legitimate concerns that their larger counterparts will be the beneficiaries of lower card acceptance costs should the Credit Card Competition Act become law, argues the Small Business Payments Alliance, a trade organization recently formed by the Electronic Payments Coalition. Among the concerns about how the …

Paysafe Ltd.’s chef executive early Tuesday pointed to progress in the processor’s growth plan and outlined moves aimed at bolstering both the company’s product line and its stock. A new digital wallet aimed at U.S. small businesses will launch before year’s end, while the company’s board authorized a $50-million share-repurchase …

Zelle, the person-to-person payment service from Early Warning Services LLC, said it will launch a consumer education campaign video series this month to help educate consumers how to spot and avoid financial scams, specifically imposter scams. Zelle, in a statement to Digital Transaction News, also said most Zelle transactions—99.9%—are without any …

Fanatics Betting & Gaming, which launched its first retail sports-betting location in January and its mobile sportsbook in May, will use the card-payment and alternative-payment methods offered by Paysafe Ltd. Announced Monday, the integration will enable U.S. bettors on the Fanatics platform to make deposits and receive payouts in a …

Unattended payments and software specialist Cantaloupe Inc. boosted its roster of customers in its fiscal 2024 first quarter, which helped increase the company’s revenue to $62.7 million, up 8.5% from $57.8 million in the 2023 first quarter that ended Sept. 30. Malvern, Pa.-based Cantaloupe said the number of active customers …

The Federal Trade Commission and the state of Florida reached a settlement with Chargebacks911 in a lawsuit they filed in April alleging the company and its owners use multiple unfair techniques to prevent consumers from winning chargeback disputes. The settlement would prohibit them from providing chargeback mitigation services to high-risk clients that use affiliate …

Long-time credit union service and financial-technology providers PSCU and Co-op Solutions announced a merger late Monday. The merged entity, which has yet to be named, will create an end-to-end payments system for credit unions of all sizes, PSCU chief executive and president Charles E. “Chuck” Fagan, promised during a press …