PayTech

Account-to-account payments platform Vyne has teamed up with Gr4vy, a cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP), to give online merchants open banking payment infrastructure.

Amazon has reached a deal with Visa to continue accepting payments from its credit cards, after several months of tensions over rising transaction fees.

Check, a payroll infrastructure company that lets platforms embed payroll into their products, has raised a $75m in a Series C round led by Stripe.

Electronic Money Institution ConnectPay has linked with Salt Edge, a provider of banking banking solutions, to boost its open banking offering.

Chicago-based private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners has acquired MoneyGram International, a digital P2P payments company, in a $1.8bn deal.

Denmark-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm ViaBill has secured $120m from an equity and debt round to bring the payment method to physical retail.

Jaguar Land Rover and BNP Paribas have entered into a strategic partnership to enhance automotive financing solutions with services across nine European markets.

Gaia, a startup platform that provides insurance payment plans to finance IVF treatments, has closed a $20m Series A round led by London’s Atomico.

Global payments network EMQ has augmented its real-time cross-border payments across South Asia, including direct access to Nepal and India’s Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), with Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

Banked, a global real-time payments network, has closed its Series A funding round on $20m.