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Phishing attacks in December totaled 316,747, the highest monthly total ever recorded by Anti-Phishing Working Group, (APWG) since it began tracking the cybercrime in 2004. Overall, the number of phishing attacks has tripled from early 2020, when the APWG was observing between 68,000 and 94,000 attacks per month. The APWG, …

Business-to-business payments provider Tipalti Inc. reported “unprecedented” growth in payments volume in 2021, with volume growing more than 100% from 2020 to more than $36 billon. The company’s client base increased to more than 2,000, including GoDaddy, Roku, ZipRecruiter, and Amazon Twitch.Fintech Social Finance Inc. said its SoFi Technologies Inc. unit has launched SoFi …

Klarna AB, the Sweden-based buy now, pay later giant with a major stake in the U.S. market, has opened a waiting list for its Klarna Card in the United States. The cobranded Visa card, to be issued by Salt Lake City-based industrial bank WebBank, follows Klarna’s convention of allowing users …

American Express Co. said Delta Air Lines has adopted AmEx’s Plan It buy now, pay later service, allowing AmEx consumer card users to pay for Delta flights in equal monthly installments with a fixed fee. AmEx launched Plan It in 2017.Payments provider Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. said it is working with retail-technology developer …

With a crucial card-acceptance market at stake, Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly struck a deal with Visa Inc. to continue taking Visa cards issued in the United Kingdom. The agreement comes nearly a month after Amazon dropped a threat to stop taking the cards and said it would negotiate with Visa. That …

Digital payments platform provider Buy It Mobility Networks Inc. is betting its new BuyPass application will further reduce the complexities around connecting to its platform for merchants that want to offer branded payment options that debit a consumer’s bank account. Launched Wednesday, the application drops a URL into a merchant’s …

Digital-currency payments specialist Circle Internet Financial LLC announced it has agreed to new terms with Concord Acquisition Corp., terminating an agreement it had reached with that company in July. The new agreement values Circle at $9 billion, twice the valuation set by the original SPAC combination. The holding company established by the original agreement …

Payments-technology firm Buy It Mobility launched BuyPass, a platform aimed at allowing merchants to more quickly launch automated clearing house and merchant-branded payments programs. BIM is working with network capabilities and virtual card technology from Discover Network to reduce the time and cost for merchant integration.Transaction-security firm Forter launched Smart Payments, a technology that uses the …

ACI Worldwide Inc. announced ACI PayAfter, a buy now, pay later service that provides merchants access to more than 70 BNPL providers via a single integration. “ACI PayAfter gives consumers one BNPL option—ACI PayAfter—displayed at checkout, one application form, and a single credit check, all while providing access to multiple financing …

With ransomware attacks showing no signs of slowing down, the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the PCI Security Standards Council issued a joint warning bulletin Thursday. The bulletin was prompted by feedback from payment industry stakeholders and heightened news coverage of the attacks throughout 2021, says the PCI SSC.  In 2021, …