Freedom Pay Links With Worldpay And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/20/23

The payments platform FreedomPay said it is expanding its partnership with the processor Worldpay to cover more geographic markets globally. FIS Inc. in July agreed to sell a 55% interest in Worldpay to the private-equity firm GTCR in a deal expected to close in 2024’s first quarter.
Buy now, pay later specialist Sezzle Inc. announced an agreement to allow merchants on the WooCommerce platform to more easily integrate Sezzle’s services.
Garmin International Inc. introduced its vivoactive 5, a health-and-fitness smart watch featuring the contactless-payments technology Garmin Pay.
The information-technology firm CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc. announced it has been certified to process payments on the Federal Reserve’s new FedNow real-time payments platform.
Blockchain-technology platform Paxos marked five years of supporting stablecoins, with more than $120 billion in U.S. dollar stablecoins issued and redeemed in that time.
Payments platform Klarna AB launched several features aimed at supporting environmentally conscious shopping, including a dashboard featuring products promising sustainability.
AppTech Payments Corp. has agreed to acquire Alliance Partners LLC, which owns FinZeo, a provider of payments and banking technology. Terms were not disclosed.

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