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Kort Payments to buy AptPay

·Source: Finextra

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Executive Summary

KORT Payments ("KORT"), a specialized omnichannel payments provider, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of AptPay Inc. ("AptPay"), a Toronto-based payments technology company specializing in real-time payments and payment orchestration. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Analysis

KORT Payments ("KORT"), a specialized omnichannel payments provider, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of AptPay Inc. ("AptPay"), a Toronto-based payments technology company specializing in real-time payments and payment orchestration. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Source Attribution

Originally published by Finextra on Oct 19, 2026.

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