AptPay Expands Its iGaming Payment Infrastructure With Direct Visa Connectivity and a New Way for Players to Receive Funds in Real-Time1

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 28, 2026--

AptPay, a payment technology company specializing in payment orchestration, today announced at G2E 2026 plans to integrate directly with Visa Direct, expanding AptPay’s card payout capabilities and introducing Visa Direct Alias, a U.S.-only service currently in pilot, to its growing money movement platform.

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AptPay already enables card-based payouts as part of its multi-rail orchestration platform. The direct Visa integration expands that infrastructure by enabling Visa Direct for Card to support real-time payouts to eligible Visa cards 2. Visa Direct Alias 3 enables simple and secure payments in real-time 4 to participating digital wallets.

The launch comes as digital gaming continues to grow rapidly. U.S. regulated iGaming revenue reached $10.74 billion in 2025, up 27.6% year-over-year, while sports betting revenue increased 22.8% to $16.96 billion 5. Player expectations are evolving alongside that growth, with recent research showing 44% of U.S. online sports bettors prefer digital wallets 6.

“Players don’t think about payment rails, they think about how quickly and easily they can access their money,” said Shams Syed, CEO of AptPay. “Our direct integration with Visa expands the reach and resiliency of our card payout infrastructure, but Visa Direct Alias represents something even more exciting: allow participating operators to send funds to eligible users using aliases like phone numbers, e-mails, or supported wallet handles to participating digital wallets, offering more optionality for players to access their funds in real-time 7.”

For iGaming operators, AptPay provides a unified orchestration layer that connects businesses to multiple payment methods and underlying payment networks through a single integration. This enables operators to manage and deliver payouts across AptPay-supported payment methods while simplifying the connectivity, routing, reconciliation and operational complexity associated with managing multiple payment integrations. Through its new Visa Direct integration, AptPay also enables access to eligible cards, account endpoints and participating digital wallets.

The integration helps strengthen AptPay’s broader strategy of providing a unified infrastructure layer that supports facilitating money movement across iGaming and other digital-first industries.

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AptPay Expands Its iGaming Payment Infrastructure With Direct Visa Connectivity and a New Way for Players to Receive Funds in Real-Time1

DETROIT (AP) — Three people were killed and four more were injured when an argument led to gunfire at an after-hours strip club Sunday morning in Detroit, officials said.

Police responding to the 7:21 a.m. shooting on a largely residential street found three men who had been fatally shot, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison told reporters at a news conference.

Four more people — two men and two women — were taken in private cars to area hospitals. None are thought to have life-threatening injuries.

All the victims are thought to be in their 20s and 30s, Bettison said.

“A fight occurred, an altercation occurred, and as a result individuals decided to settle it with gun violence,” he said.

“This address is not new to the Detroit Police Department,” he said, noting police had seven calls to the location this year. He said the department had leads but wouldn’t discuss them any further.

“This was an after-hours location,” he said of the shooting scene. “Imagine a strip club. … I'll leave it at that.”

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield urged anyone with information to contact authorities.

“We know that we need more people to speak up to bring justice to the situation,” she said at the news conference. “It’s heartbreaking and our community should not suffer from this type of violence.”

Earlier Sunday, a shooting broke out at a birthday party at a park in Macon, Georgia, leaving 12 teens with gunshot wounds, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said during a news conference. Two of the injured were in critical condition, while the others were stable. There were no immediate arrests, but Davis said investigators had several persons of interest.

In this image taken from video provided by WXYZ, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison responds to questions during a news conference about a fatal shooting in Detroit on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (WXYZ via AP)

In this image taken from video provided by WXYZ, law enforcement respond to a fatal shooting in Detroit on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. (WXYZ via AP)