Priority Sports Goes Wild and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/2/25

Priority Sports, a unit of the payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc., announced it has processed ticket sales since March for the Minnesota Wild, a National Hockey League team.
A survey from Jack Henry & Associates Inc. found that 89% of financial institutions plan to add new payment services, including the FedNow real-time payments service, over the next two years. Other priorities are same-day ACH and contactless cards. Conducted in February, the online survey had 149 responses.
Apple Inc. will allow an update to Spotify’s iPhone app that will permit users to pay for plans on an external site with no restrictions. The move follows a court order against Apple in its case against Epic Games.
Payments-technology platform Modern Treasury unveiled Modern Treasury AI, which it says is the first artificial-intelligence platform purpose-built for large-company payments.
The average monthly rent payment in the United States climbed 31% over the past five years, to $1,302, according to “The State of Rent: Housing Affordability Trends Across the U.S.” from Rentec Direct, a provider of technology for rent collection.
John Badovinac has joined Aurora Payments as senior vice president of embedded commerce. Badovinac arrives at Aurora from Fortis Payment Systems LLC, and worked previously at Total System Services Inc. and Discover Financial Services.

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