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- Buy now, pay later provider Uplift Inc. said its service has been integrated with Vegas.com, a travel site.
- In related news, buy now, pay later provider Splitit said its service is now available on the ChargeAfter platform, which offers merchants a variety of consumer financing methods.
- Mastercard Inc. said it has closed on its $850-million acquisition of Ekata Inc., a provider of identity-verification technology and services. The deal was announced in April.
- Summer has just barely started, but Mastercard said back-to-school retail sales are expected to grow 5.6% compared to the same period last year.
- SmarTrip, the contactless transit payment service for users of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, is now available on Google Pay, Cubic Corp. announced. WMATA serves 91 rail stations and operates 1,500 buses in the Washington, D.C., area.
- Fraud prevention specialist Riskified said it joined the Shopify Plus Certified App Program to make its chargeback management program more easily available to Shopify Inc. merchants.
- Fiserv Inc. announced PenFed Credit Union will use the processor’s CardHub service to enable its cardholders to manage their credit and debit cards.
- A survey from U.S. Bank found that within the last 12 months 28% of consumers paid a health care bill via on online portal and 23% paid via a mobile app. The online survey canvassed 1,133 consumers in February.
- Australia Post is the fifth national postal system to adopt digital money-transfer services from The Western Union Co., joining the systems of France, Italy, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
- Fintech Rapyd named Casey Bullock its chief revenue officer. He had been senior vice president and general manager of Worldpay’s Global Enterprise eCommerce business in North America. Rapyd also named Revital Lavie Cohen global vice president for human resources, and LeAnne Hoang global chief risk and compliance officer.
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