Deutsche Bank and Postbank are offering their clients the full range of functions of the new digital payment app Wero

Federato, the AI-native platform that changes the way insurance work gets done, announced the appointment of Lisa Khoury as CMO

Bitpanda Technology Solutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Banco BS2, becoming BTS’ first banking partner in Latin America

COONECTA has partnered with BPC to drive country-wide digital transformation and financial inclusion in Ecuador

Trafalgar SOFIPO has selected BPC’s next-generation SmartVista platform to enable end-to-end debit issuing and processing

Cognizantannounced a strategic collaboration with Bupa Hong Kong, to deliver Cognizant's first AI-driven BPaaS solution for claims modernization

Aspire has secured its EMI license, laying the foundation for its Dutch operations, and official entry into the European Union

Standard Chartered under the Supervisory Incubator for Distributed Ledger Technology and Project Ensemble launched by the HKMA, has successfully tokenised HKD, CNH and USD accounts of Ant International

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced a strategic collaboration with Visa to bring stronger identity, user recognition, and security controls to the emerging world of agentic commerce. Through its integration of Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai’s edge-based behavioral intelligence, user recognition, and bot and abuse protection, the companies will deliver the identity, authentication, and fraud controls required to let merchants confidently welcome AI agents with commerce intent into their digital storefronts.

Token.io today announced that its Chief Product Officer, Charles Damen, has been elected to the board of the newly formed UK Payments Initiative (UKPI) — an industry-led company, established under the stewardship of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to own and operate a commercial scheme for Variable Recurring Payments (VRP), which will drive the next phase of open banking and Pay by Bank adoption across the UK.

ZestyAI, the Risk and Decision Intelligence Platform for the insurance industry, today announced an agreement with TruStage. This partnership will leverage ZestyAI’s suite of advanced property analytics solutions for valuable insights during commercial property underwriting.

Creditspring, the subscription-based credit provider on a mission to improve financial stability across the UK, has closed 2025 with its strongest year to date, having provided over 1.7 million loans to members across the UK since the company’s inception in 2016, totalling more than £715 million.

Unlimit, a leading global fintech company providing the world’s largest portfolio of financial technology services, today announced that it has received final authorisation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate with a Payment Aggregator - Cross Border licence (PA-CB). As a fully authorised payment partner in India, this licence allows Unlimit to facilitate cross-border transactions, enabling Indian merchants to receive international payments and global merchants to accept payments from Indian customers via UPI, cards, and local payment methods.

Duco, a leading SaaS provider of AI-powered operational data automation, has announced a strategic collaboration with Phoenix Group, one of the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement businesses, to modernise reconciliation infrastructure, empower operational teams, and scale efficiently across its Asset Management division.

Cytora, the leading digital risk processing platform, has partnered with Pilotbird, a provider of lifestyle analytics to reduce claim leakage and improve payout accuracy.