A third-party survey conducted by Talker Research on behalf of Spreedly in August 2025 reveals that while 83% of U.S. executives believe that by 2027, most payments will be initiated, optimized, or completed by artificial intelligence (AI), one in four report losing more than $1 million annually at online checkout. The State of Checkout 2025 Survey indicates that the top drivers of this loss aren't fraud—they're consumer-driven:

Allica Bank, the challenger business bank, has today published the results of its latest asset finance broker survey of over 200 brokers, which shows a sharp rise in broker confidence for the months ahead. Though just over 18% expressed concern for the next six months, over half (51.2%) of brokers said they had a positive outlook, a significant increase on Q4, when confidence was just 24%. A further 30% of those surveyed remain neutral.

S64, the global alternatives fintech and solutions partner to the wealth management industry, today announced its expanded partnership with Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a global technology investor that specializes in enterprise software, with the scheduled launch of VistaOne (Lux) (“VistaOne”) via an Australian Unit Trust (AUT).

Orbit Financial Technology today announced a new monthly membership system for Orbit Insight, its flagship research and analysis platform already used by leading asset managers and hedge funds. The change opens access to smaller firms, boutique funds, and independent researchers, giving them the same institutional-grade tools trusted by global investment houses.

Zycus, the pioneer in Agentic AI powered Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions today announced the launch of Zycus Pay, a new payment solution powered by TransferMate, the world’s leading provider of embedded B2B payments infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Zycus Pay enables clients to seamlessly execute and manage B2B payments directly within the Zycus platform.

TBC Bank Uzbekistan (TBC UZ), the country’s leading digital bank and part of the wider TBC Uzbekistan digital banking ecosystem, announces that it has expanded access to its services to non-residents in Uzbekistan.

Otala.Markets (“Otala”), a specialist investment bank with a 10-year track record of creating and developing structured investment products, today announces its launch into the UK market.

A leading fintech business has appointed a new Director of Sales. Joseph Perry has joined Cardstream® Group, to head up its commercial strategy, with the ambition of helping take Cardstream to the ‘next level’ and build on what has been a very successful period for the business.

Gradient AI, a leading enterprise software provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the insurance industry, today announced that Community Health Options has successfully adopted its integrated Risk Management Life Cycle solution.

TransferGo has expanded its partnership with tell.money to include both open banking API compliance and the implementation of the EU VoP

Viva.com, the first Tech Bank in Europe for businesses, has enabled Tap to Pay on iPhone in Norway, allowing local merchants to seamlessly accept all forms of contactless payments, such as contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets, using only an iPhone and Viva.com’s Terminal app.

Signicat announced the launch of ReuseID, a comprehensive digital identity solution enabling organisations to create, manage, and reuse verified identities

Kaizen launched its revolutionary MAR360 solution - a suite of products that transforms how financial institutions approach market abuse detection and prevention

HyperPay, signed strategic Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) at Money20/20 Middle East 2025, held in Riyadh

Finova has today announced the appointment of David Espley as Chief Technology Officer (CTO)