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 cards2. Visa Direct Alias3 enables simple and secure payments in real-time4 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 billion5. Player expectations are evolving alongside that growth, with recent research showing 44% of U.S. online sports bettors prefer digital wallets6.

“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-time7.”

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 provides payment orchestration infrastructure across North America, connecting businesses to multiple payment methods through a single integration while helping simplify routing, reconciliation, reporting and payment operations.

One integration. More ways to help facilitate money movement.

 

1 Actual fund availability depends on receiving financial institution and region.

2 Actual fund availability depends on receiving financial institution and region.

3 Visa Direct Alias is currently in pilot in the United States and is available only to eligible participating clients and platforms

4 Actual fund availability depends on receiving financial institution and region.

5 American Gaming Association February 2026 Press Release “Commercial Gaming Revenue Hits 78.7 Billion in 2025, Driving Record $18.1 Billion in Gaming Taxes Nationwide”

6 Paysafe and Sapio Research March 2026 Study “All the Way Players Play”

7 Actual fund availability depends on receiving financial institution and region.

 

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