Card balances up and other digital transactions news briefs from 5/13/26. * Some 53% of U.S. consumers carry a balance on their credit cards in response to rising costs, while 25% carry a balance for six months or more, says a survey from personal-finance platform Achieve. The research, conducted in March by the Achieve Center for Consumer Insights, queried 2,000 consumers. * Xero, a payments platform for small businesses, said a previously announced integration with AI firm Anthropic has gone live, enabling Anthropic's Claude technology for Xero's clients. * The U.S. Department of Justice said it resolved a fair lending investigation into PayPal Holdings Inc. that will see PayPal waive the processing fees for $1 billion in transactions, a value of approximately $30 million, as part of the settlement. The investigation focused on the Economic Opportunity Fund PayPal created in 2020. * Shift4 Payments Inc. said Boozt, a Nordic region online department store, will use its card acquiring and settlement services via Boozt's Konor payment gateway. * Amazon.com Inc. released its new Prime Business and Amazon Business credit cards. Issued by U.S. Bank and bearing the Mastercard Inc. brand, the cards had been issued by American Express Co. * Pavilion Payments named Kaiu Pettigrew executive vice president and chief information officer. Pettigrew comes to the gaming payments specialist from First Hawaiian Bank. * Fraud prevention provider Forter named Jennifer Howard chief merchant, a first at Forter. Howard, who has worked at Levi Strauss and Gap, will be in charge of growing Forter's merchant base.

Pavilion Payments has appointed Angelo Palmisano as Chief Product Officer. He will lead the gaming payment solutions provider's product and innovation strategy, overseeing product development and design across its expanding portfolio for casino operators. Palmisano brings over 35 years of gaming industry experience. He founded Paltronics, which grew into a global gaming technology business before its North American division was acquired by Aristocrat Technologies in 2014. He subsequently served as Senior Vice President of Global Strategy and Innovation at Aristocrat and Chief Strategy Officer for Win Systems. In his new role, Palmisano will guide the evolution of Pavilion's platform across payments, compliance and iGaming initiatives, focusing on deeper systems integrations and data insights.

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.