- Payments provider Nuvei Corp. and open-banking specialist Plaid Inc. expanded their relationship to include new services, including bank-based payments for recurring payments and payouts, and new vertical markets, including utilities and business-to-business transfers.
- Synchrony said its Synchrony Pay Later service will be the exclusive buy now, pay later option at the At Home chain of 264 stores.
- Pavilion Payments, a specialist in processing for the gaming industry, announced it has raised its headcount by 10% in an effort to increase service and boost innovation.
- ConnexPay, whose service combines payments acceptance and issuance, added to its European platform the ability to transact in euros and British pounds.
- Cybercriminals are exploiting a “critical vulnerability” in the WooCommerce Payments plugin from WordPress, according to a warning from Wordfence, a security firm. The plugin is installed on more than 600,000 Web sites. WooCommerce released a patch in March, but not all sites have installed it.
- Microsoft Corp. ranked first in Check Point Research’s latest Brand Phishing Report for the second quarter, accounting for 29% of all brand phishing attempts. It had been the third most phished brand in the first quarter.
- Payments provider Sionic said it is integrating technology from E-Hawk, a cyber intelligence services firm, into its Verified Rapid Payments Commerce Gateway to help verify and validate payers and payees.
- PayNearMe Inc. added Cash App Pay as a payment option for bill payments.
- Wellesley Hills Financial, a fintech and software focused investment bank, named payments veteran O.B. Rawls partner and executive director. Rawls most recently was an executive at Paysafe Ltd.
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