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Repay Holdings Corp. said it is acquiring BillingTree, which provides payment services to the healthcare, credit union, accounts receivable management, and energy industries, for $503 million. BillingTree was founded in 2003. Repay also released its first quarter results with $47.5 million in revenue, a 20.3% increase from $39.5 million in the 2020 first …

Affirm Holdings Inc. on Monday described an arc that traced deals to process for tens of thousands of Shopify Inc. merchants on the upside and returns for $2,500 Peloton Inc. treadmills on the downside. In a conference call with stock analysts to discuss its fiscal third-quarter results, the San Francisco-based …

Payments provider Nuvei Corp. reported first-quarter volume of $20.6 billion, up 132% year-over-year, with e-commerce accounting for 87% of that total. Revenue grew 80% to $149.9 million. Nuvei was known as Pivotal Payments until rebranding in 2018.Kount, an authentication and fraud prevention provider, announced Kount Dispute and Chargeback Management Solution, a service that integrates …

An influx of larger merchants helped drive first-quarter payment volume for Square Inc., while on the consumer side the company’s Cash App benefited from a runup in value for Bitcoin as well as increasing adoption by business users. Sellers’ gross payment volume totaled $29.8 billion in the quarter, up 21% …

Payments provider Nuvei Corp. announced an agreement to acquire SimplexCC Ltd., whose technology enables market participants to buy or sell cryptocurrencies. The $250-million deal is expected to close in the second half of the year and comes on the heels of Nuvei’s agreement to acquire sports-betting technology specialist Mazooma Technical Services Inc. for $56 …

Shift4 Payments Inc. on Thursday reported record quarterly end-to-end payment volume and gross revenue as it notched what chief executive Jared Isaacman called a “strong first quarter.” Stronger performance in the company’s core hospitality market helped drive end-to-end volume to a record $8 billion, with most growth coming from new …

Square Inc. continues to build out delivery services for its Square Online platform with the addition of liquor delivery. Merchants using Square Online that sell liquor can offer customers the option to purchase alcohol from the store’s Web site and have the order fulfilled through Square’s delivery partner DoorDash Inc. …

The Zelle peer-to-peer payment network handled $106 billion in volume in the first quarter on 392 million transactions, up 74% and 61%, respectively, year over year. Zelle is owned and operated by Early Warning Services LLC.Jack Henry & Associates Inc., a provider of payments technology to financial institutions, said it has integrated Mastercard …

The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC announced three processors—Fiserv Inc., FIS Inc., and Jack Henry & Associates—will offer its real-time payment service to minority-owned depository institutions. The processors and TCH will jointly cover the onboarding fees for these financial institutions connecting to TCH’s RTP network.Datacap Systems Inc. said it will offer the digital …

The chief executives of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover last month came together to start the Payments Leadership Council, a group that also includes the heads of FIS, Fiserv, and Global Payments. Thus, we now have witnessed the final step by adding the keystone to the pyramid of power …