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JPMorgan Chase has become the first card issuer to join the Visa and Billtrust Business Payments Network in an effort to streamline the delivery of electronic B2B payments for its commercial card clients.

The brokerage expects customers will use conversational tech to check accounts and perform other financial transactions while stuck in traffic.

AI-focused venture fund Radical Ventures is the lead investor in a $31.5 million Series B round in Sensibill, which boosts it overall financing to $46.5 million. National Bank of Canada is also part of the investment round.

Fiserv is supporting mobile bill presentment in to meet a growing demand for receiving and paying bills through smartphones, which are now nearly ubiquitous in the U.S.

Denmark-based payments technology developer Nets will develop new solutions for Vipps, Norway’s leading mobile payment app, under a new agreement.

The digital banking provider Simple has been part of BBVA for five years, and its reputation as an easy way to handle and transfer digital money has only grown in that time frame through the addition of faster payments and P2P services.

Improvements in digital receipts should be enough to spur greater adoption, argues Mike Golebiowski, president of IBT.

ACI Worldwide launched a new mobile wallet with loyalty capabilities to bolster its Universal Payments platform with consumer bill-paying services.

Mastercard has agreed to acquire digital bill payment platform Transactis, a deal the card network expects to close during the second quarter of 2019.

TenantCloud, which launched in 2014 to help landlords manage their businesses, has partnered with Dwolla to enable property management companies to collect rent payments through its platform via ACH.

Web and mobile bill payment service provider doxo now supports Apple Pay as a payment option.

Vipps, which launched in Norway in 2015 as a P2P app accessible to all local bank customers, is integrating invoice and bill-payment capabilities through a collaboration with Nets Group, a Nordic payment service provider.

ACI’s $750 million deal to acquire Western Union’s Speedpay allows Western Union to clear its decks while ACI clears its runway.

With the opportunities provided by contributions, metered paywalls and single article purchases, we have a wealth of solutions already at our fingertips, argues Cosmin Ene, CEO of LaterPay.

Auto lending in particular was a strong area for institutions in both states.

The concept of Smart Cities — which use mobile payments, global positioning and related technology to streamline parking, transit, building access and traffic — is deeply intertwined with the development of payments technology and regulation.

Seeking a stronger foothold in the growing India payments landscape, Visa has made a minority investment in digital payments platform BillDesk.

Called Bill Pay Exchange, it will power instant bill pay for consumers from their bank or credit union accounts in a matter of seconds versus days when using the traditional bank bill pay ACH network.

The three credit unions from Connecticut will receive a variety of services from the credit union service organization, including bill pay.

When Salesforce added new features to its Sales Cloud platform, it opted to not only improve the prospect marketing and selling aspects of generating sales in its CRM platform, but to also include a billing capability.