Finastra Adds Visa Direct for Payouts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/23/22

Financial-technology provider Finastra said it is incorporating Visa Direct, a real-time push-payment capability developed by Visa Inc., as a cross-border payout offering for banks.
Coinsquare, a crypto asset trading platform based in Canada, said it has agreed to acquire Simply Digital Technologies Inc., owner of the CoinSmart trading platform and a unit of CoinSmart Financial Inc. Terms were not announced.
PracticeTek, a payments provider specializing in health care, announced it has acquired GrowthPlug, a marketing platform for medical practices. Terms were not announced.
The three major credit-reporting agencies—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion—announced they are extending to the end of 2023 the availability of free credit reports to U.S. consumers.
The law firm Latham & Watkins LLP has released its “Book of Jargon,” containing definitions of terms used with respect to blockchain, cryptocurrency, and Web3 matters.
The hotelier Marriott Bonvoy launched two additional cobranded credit cards, the Marriott Bonvoy Bevy American Express card and the Marriott Bonvoy Bountiful card from Chase.
Greg Castro has joined payments provider PayTrace as president. Castro comes to the company from EVO Payments, and before that worked for Mercury Payments.

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