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Unipaas, a UK-based provider of embedded payments through its SaaS platform, has formed a partnership with Mastercard. The companies want to promote card payment acceptance by small and midsized companies in industries including health services, education, field services and professional training.

FIS’ Premium Payback real-time pay with points service was rolled out to Bilt, allowing Bilt's Mastercard cardholders to redeem their Bilt rewards easily at checkout, allowing them to save money instantly when shopping. The program will roll out in the third quarter of 2025 to all eligible Bilt Members.

Aurora Payments has integrated network tokenization into its Arise payment platform. Tokens are issued directly by the card networks on behalf of issuing banks. Tokenization helps merchants, software providers and ISOs reduce fraud, increase approval rates and lower processing costs. Aurora Payments supports more than 27,000 merchants that generate $12 billion annually in purchase card volume. When fully integrated with Arise, the tokenization service requires no development work, hardware updates or downtime. It can be sues for both card-present and card-not-present transactions. Aurora supports more than 27,000 merchants and processes over $12 billion in annual payments volume.

Everee, which provides software that enables companies to pay both W-2 workers and 1099 contractors as often as daily, has launched the Expedite Visa Pay Card in partnership with Dlivrd, a white-label delivery management service for delivery drivers. The Bancorp Bank is the debit card issuer.

Tietoevry Banking has received a five-year extension of its card processing, fraud prevention and card production services contract with Bank Norwegian. The bank has 1.4 million cardholders. Bank Norwegian is part of the Noba Bank Group, which is active in eight markets.

Wex has received a multi-ye ar extension of its business fuel card partnership with convenience retailer Circle K, which operates 6,800 locations in the US. The new deal includes development of custom software for commercial fleets. Circle K has also become a merchant acceptance location for 10-4 by Wex, a free mobile app used by independent truckers and small trucking companies in the US.

Checkbook has integrated PayPal and Venmo with its payment processing platform. Businesses will be able to disburse funds directly to the PayPal and Venmo platforms without having to enter any bank account information for a recipient. Checkbook also disburses funds to bank accounts using the ACH or real time networks, via printed checks or to Visa or Mastercard debit cards.

JCB contactless card acceptance will be promoted in Germany by First Cash Solution, an independent acquirer subsidiary of Volksbank with 22,000 merchant customers.

ACI Worldwide and Ingo Payments have formed a partnership. Ingo’s embedded payments technology will integrate with the ACI Speedpay Digital Disbursements platform. Using either embedded payments or a fully-hosted software-as-a-Service option, their customers will have access to point-in-time, batch-based or real-time disbursements via the ACH, signature-based debit cards, PayPal/Venmo or real-time networks.

PayNearMe operates a network of 62,000 retail locations in the US where consumers can make cash payments over-the-counter for consumer loans, iGaming, property management and other use cases. Core10, provider of middleware that community banks and credit unions use to connect their core banking systems to fintechs, has integrated with PayNearMe to support loan repayments.

Airwallex merchants in Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US can now accept payments from Discover and Diners Club cards. The company supports more than 150,000 businesses worldwide with services including payments, treasury, spend management and embedded finance.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the largest hotel franchising company in the US, has launched the Wyndham Rewards Debit Card. Galileo Financial is handling the account processing. Sunrise Banks is issuing the Mastercard branded card and holds all deposits. The card’s $6 monthly fee is waived with an average monthly account balance of $2,500. Rewards points can be redeemed for free nights at more than 60,000 hotels, vacation clubs and vacation rentals.

TreviPay provides businesses with the ability to embed trade credit in their online sales channel through its order-to-cash technology. HSBC will offer TreviPay to its corporate customers in the UK. In addition to trade credit on B2B transactions, order-to-cash manages invoices and buyer verification.

XCharge North America, provider of proprietary EV charging technology, has rolled out its first Virtual Point of Sale system, which offers payment acceptance from Apple Pay and Google Pay in addition to cards. VPOS uses an on-screen QR code to fight phishing and other types of fraud.

KLARNA, an AI-powered BNPL and shopping assistance provider, has partnered with Blackhawk Network, a branded payments provider, to launch Klarna’s Gift Card Store in the UK. Customers will be able to pay for Blackhawk’s selection of prepaid cards using Klarna’s BNPL products and its instant debit option, Pay Now. They will also be able to include a personalized note and scheduled delivery. Merchants on Blackhawk’s site include Airbnb, Argos, Fortnite, Adidas, Ikea, Playstation, Deliveroo, H&M, Wagamama, Currys and Uber.

PCI Pal will provide secure payment processing support to RingCentral, a provider of cloud business communications. Their integration enables RingCentral customers to access PCI Pal’s PCI DSS cloud-native technology and process payments without exposing any cardholder data.

Marqeta has become the card issuing partner of Spendesk Financial Services (SFS) in Europe.  SFS the payment institution unit of Spendesk, which provides a spend management and procurement platform to small and midsized businesses. The integration with Marqeta gives SFS the opportunity to provide real-time card processing and controls on spending.

Gr4vy will provide its cloud-based, no-code payment orchestration platform to Azupay, a provider of real-time payments processing to e-commerce merchants in Australia. Merchants reach Gr4vy through Azupay’s PayID, PayTo and Pay by Bank services.

Socure, provider of a platform for digital identity verification, fraud prevention and sanctions screening, has launched an Identity Manipulation Risk Score designed to stop repeat first-party fraud abusers from acting at scale. The score is embedded within Socure’s Sigma First-Party Fraud product which provides risk signals, real-time monitoring and intelligence from account opening through the entire customer lifecycle.

i2c offers debit card issuance processing services and digital wallet support to North America-based bank and credit union clients of Finastra, a provider of financial services software under a new partnership. Finastra and i2c connect via an API.

Fourth quarter net sales increased 22% to $125.1 million, net income increased 148% to $6.8 million, and Adjusted EBITDA increased 10% to $21.9 million, compared to the prior year period. Sales growth was led by strong performance from the prepaid business, driven by sales of more complex, higher-value packaging solutions and expansion into new customer verticals, and increased sales of contactless debit and credit cards and personalization services.

Rivero will provide its Amiko fraud recovery and dispute management platform to 100 debit card customers of financial market infrastructure provider Six in Switzerland. Amiko software handles all incoming disputes and helps chargeback agents and analysts work on cases more efficiently.

Chargebacks911 will provide its card payment dispute and revenue recovery management suite of software and service offerings to Prommt  for use by that company's clients in Europe and North America. Prommt operates a payment request platform that delivers reports and alerts to enterprises with multiple locations, including those with high rates of chargebacks such as hospitality businesses.

Consulting IQ, provider of a digital business platform that combines AI with a team of executive consultants to help small and midsized businesses, has joined Visa SavingsEdge, a program in the US and Canada that offers SMBs savings, tools and resources to grow their businesses. Financial institution customers of SavingsEdge get access to Consulting IQ’s library of 4,500 business prompts, a KPI library with 2,000+ performance indicators, masterclasses and customized consulting.

Silverflow’s cloud-native payment processing platform has been deployed by Solidgate, a processor focused on handling payments for subscription-based merchants. Solidgate says that website visitors that become paying customers (conversion rates) are up 7% and that profits are up 20% for itself and its merchants.