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Galileo Financial Technologies LLC has reached an agreement with Amazon.com to make its platform available to buyers on Amazon’s AWS Marketplace. AWS marketplace is a digital catalog that features software listings from independent software vendors. Businesses use it to find software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a unit …

Cybercrime remains a scourge difficult to tame, according to data from Apple Inc., the Identity Theft Resource Center, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Apple Inc. late Tuesday revealed it stopped more than $2 billion in fraudulent transactions in its app store in 2022. In addition, the technology giant blocked nearly 3.9 …

Sezzle is fine-tuning the buy now, pay later experience with the debut of its Pay-in-2 product. Just as its name suggests, the new product splits transactions into two payments, which can help expand BNPL to new categories, such as grocery, monthly subscriptions, and other high-frequency categories, Sezzle says. Consumers choosing …

A startup fintech called Engage has launched a communication channel allowing customers and merchants to interact via purchase transactions through card networks. In the hotly contested hospitality point-of-sale market, Lightspeed Commerce Inc. launched the newest version of its Lightspeed Restaurant set of technologies, which is immediately available in the U.S. market. Security firm Sophos said it …

Square, the point-of-sale and e-commerce unit of Block Inc., is the latest technology provider to turn up the heat in the already hotly competitive restaurant POS market. It announced Tuesday the launch of Square KDS, a kitchen-display system on the Android operating platform, and the debut of Square for Franchises, …

Paysafe Ltd. has been all about growth since Bruce Lowthers took over a year ago as chief executive, and on Tuesday he contended the London-based processor is expanding nicely in its key wallet and iGaming markets. “We returned to growth in the second half of 2022,” Lowthers told equity analysts …

Mitek Systems Inc., a provider of identity-verification technology, is teaming up with DarkTower, the cyber-intelligence division of Davidson, N.C.-based IT consultancy Queen Associates, to combat account fraud and identity theft. The partnership grew out the increasing role criminal marketplaces on the dark Web are playing in account and check fraud, …

Fifth Third Bancorp said it has closed on its acquisition of Big Data LLC, a technology platform for health-care payments. Terms were not disclosed Mark Barnett, president of Mastercard Inc. for Europe, said card interchange “represents incredibly good value” with respect to “sharing the costs and benefits of the payment system.” The remarks …

Payroc WorldAccess LLC has acquired Atlantic Merchant Services, LLC for an undisclosed sum. Raleigh, N.C.-based-Atlantic Merchant serves merchants and businesses across the mid-Atlantic region, as well as West Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan, and Texas. Atlantic Merchant’s services include touchscreen POS, mobile solutions, e-commerce, countertop terminals, and smart-phone applications. Merchant segments serviced …

Mid-size payments processors have contended with a pandemic, a sharply rising cost of funds, and pronounced inflation over the past few years, but that hasn’t stopped them from capturing volume, particularly from the small and medium-size merchants that have long been their specialty. In results reported early Thursday, Alpharetta, Ga.-based …