Digital Currency

The open-banking platform MX Technologies Inc. has become the latest partner in Dwolla Inc.’s Secure Exchange solution. Through the partnership, which builds on the two companies’ existing relationship, digital-payments fintech Dwolla will be able to offer clients and reseller partners it has in common with MX access to account-verification services …

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the agency will begin to identity potential “interpretive guidance or rules to issue with the goal of ensuring that Buy Now, Pay Later firms adhere to many of the baseline protections that Congress has already established for credit cards.” This …

Paysafe Ltd. announced a link to mobile sportsbook ClutchBet that will allow Paysafe’s Skrill USA digital wallet and Paysafecash digital-cash platform to support online payments for ClutchBet’s Iowa sportsbook.Payments platform Spreedly launched a payments-orchestration capability for marketplaces and other merchant aggregators. Payments orchestration manages transactions arriving from various gateways and by means of …

After riding a strong growth wave in 2021, installations of specialized ATMs that allow users to convert their local currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, into cryptocurrencies have cooled off considerably in 2022. Through August, just 5,000 cryptocurrency ATMs have been installed globally this year, bringing the total to more …

While the Federal Reserve mulls the concept of a national digital dollar, private-sector actors are working toward the same end. The Digital Dollar Project early Wednesday launched what it calls a Technical Sandbox Program in an effort, it said, to help advance understanding of the technical requirements undergirding a central …

The ATM world is about to get another publicly held company. Bitcoin Depot, a Bitcoin ATM operator with more than 7,000 machines in the United States and Canada, intends to go public in a merger with GSR II Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company.  Announced Thursday, the proposed deal …

Alphabet Inc. said it is expanding Google Wallet to six more countries, including South Africa, bringing to 45 the number of countries in which the product can be used. Google Wallet was introduced this spring as a replacement for Google Pay.Transaction processor Computer Services Inc. said it will be acquired by private investment firms Centerbridge …

OrbaGraph, a payment automation firm, said Revenue Management Solutions acquired the company. Private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners funded the acquisition. Terms were not disclosed.Dan Price, cofounder of Gravity Payments, which set a minimum starting annual salary of $70,000 for his employees and cut his salary from $1 million …

Choice Hotels International Inc. launched Choice Direct Pay, which allows businesses to make reservations for employees and guests at multiple properties with billing through a centralized invoice. The service works with more than 5,000 U.S. properties.Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. announced customers can order groceries for delivery from nearly 400 stores via online-delivery …

The drive to encourage consumers to use cryptocurrency to pay for transactions at the point-of-sale shifted into a higher gear Wednesday as BitPay Inc. announced the launch of a cash-back rewards program for its prepaid card. Cardholders, who will be automatically enrolled in the rewards program, can earn up to …