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Zelle and BofA Team up and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/12/26

  • Peer-to-peer payments platform Zelle has collaborated with Bank of America to process charitable disbursements from Donor Advised Funds, enabling nonprofits to receive charitable grant funding in near real time. Zelle is a unit of Early Warning Services.
  • Some 26% of bill-pay platforms said their systems are ready for the future, though 80% agree bill-pay technology is “essential to achieving their business priorities,” according to the ACI Speedpay 2026 Biller Impact Study, released early Thursday by ACI Worldwide Inc.
  • Risk-technology provider Socure Inc. introduced Socure Launch, a means by which organizations can gain immediate access to existing technologies to establish identity and combat fraud.
  • Truist Financial Corp. said a data-access agreement with global data network provider Plaid Inc. will expand open-banking access for Truist clients.
  • Flex Dental Solutions, a provider of practice-management software for dental practices, has launched FlexPayments, a payment platform supported by Stripe Inc. and aimed at the same client base.
  • The University of Louisiana System, which embraces 84,000 students and families, said it has contracted with Nelnet Campus Commerce to update the school’s tuition billing and payment processes.
  • B4B Payments will work with Thredd, an issuer-processing platform, to process U.S. debit card transactions on the Visa and STAR networks. The deal follows a similar collaboration between the companies in the United Kingdom and Europe.
  • Cross-border money-transfer service Thunes Financial Services Inc. appointed former BMW executive Guy Duncan chief technology officer and product officer, and Parvinder Bhatia chief financial officer. Bhatia joined the firm from bunq, an AI-based banking firm.
  • Identity-verification provider Trulioo Inc. announced three executive appointments: Chad Gerhardstein to chief risk and strategy officer; Danielle Holbrook Dunn to chief transformation officer; and Uri Zelmanovich to chief financial officer.
  • Pavilion Payments Gaming Services Inc., a specialist in the gaming industry, has appointed industry veteran Angelo Palmisano chief product officer. Palmisano founded gaming-technology firm Paltronics in 1992. The move comes as Pavilion named a new chief executive in January and a new marketing officer in November.

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