July Sales up 11.2% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/4/22

Mastercard Inc. said July retail sales increased 11.2% from July 2021. E-commerce sales were up 11.7% and in-store sales increased 11.1% for the same period.
Payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. reported $340 million in revenue for its June quarter, up 13% year-over-year.
In related news, ACI’s Speedpay will integrate with the Vindicia platform from technology firm Amdocs to offer subscription merchants faster time to market and better customer retention.
Fiserv Inc. said insurer State Farm expanded its Digital Pay service for claims payouts, which uses Fiserv’s Carat technology, to include PayPal accounts.
Plastiq Inc., a business-to-business payments platform for small enterprises, has agreed on a plan of merger with Colonnade Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in a deal that will take Plastiq public and result in a combined company with an implied enterprise value of approximately $480 million.
The e-commerce platform GoDaddy Inc. reported 80% of Websites+Marketing commerce clients plus 30% of Managed WordPress users have adopted GoDaddy Payments, the company’s payments-technology arm.
Nancy Disman has joined payments provider Shift4 Payments Inc. as chief financial officer, effective Aug. 5. Disman most recently was CFO for Intrado, a global technology company, and before that held executive positions at payments companies TSYS, Cynergy Data, and First Data.

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