dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has announced a strategic partnership with Panda Remit, a global remittance provider facilitating fast and cost-effective international money transfers. Through this partnership, Panda Remit expands its payout capabilities, offering secure and efficient payment solutions for recipients in Africa.

Vitesse, the trusted financial infrastructure connecting the global insurance ecosystem, today released a new research report: The State of Claims Finance: Tackling Roadblocks in Payments, Liquidity and Financial Coordination.

Mastercard has launched its Cyber Resilience Center, an initiative that brings together key players from the financial sector to foster collaboration and support shared goals in building a secure commerce and payment ecosystem in the Kingdom. This is Mastercard’s first initiative in the Middle East, extending the company’s global network of cyber resilience centers which includes locations in Europe and the United States.

Global businesses have been hit with surging costs, supply chain disruptions, and are having to rethink their strategy and planned investments as tariffs and shifting trade policies continue to impact their enterprises.

Financial Software and Systems, a leading provider of payments technology and transaction processing, a pioneer in digital transformation for banks and financial institutions, has announced the appointment of Mr. Rishi Verma as the Head – Artificial Intelligence, Centre of Excellence (AI-COE). In a first-of-its kind move for the Indian payments ecosystem, FSS becomes one of the few companies in the industry to formally establish an AI leadership function signalling a strategic shift toward AI-first product design, operational intelligence, and customer-centric transformation.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading Islamic financial institution, has been named Middle East’s Best Bank for Consumers, by the leading global financial publication Euromoney in its 2025 Awards for Excellence. This prestigious accolade highlights ADIB’s dedication to delivering innovative, digital first and customer- centric bank built around the evolving needs of individual customers.

OpenFX, the FX infrastructure company revolutionizing cross-border payments, today announced its emergence from stealth with $23 million in funding led by Accel, with participation from NFX, Lightspeed Faction, Castle Island Ventures, Flybridge, Hash3 and strategic fintech investors

Starling Group today named four new members of its Executive Committee, further strengthening its leadership in the legal, compliance,and people functions.

Glovo, one of the leading technology platforms across Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, has partnered with finmid, the all-in-one infrastructure provider for financing, to bring instant, personalized capital offers to Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMEs) using the Glovo platform.

Curve, the ultimate digital wallet, today announced the launch of Curve Pay on iOS, marking a watershed moment in mobile payments.

Banking Circle S.A., the next-generation technology-led payments bank, today announced a strategic partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments. The partnership provides Visa Direct with access to Banking Circle’s extensive local clearing rails across the world, further strengthening the business’s global payment reach for its customers.

At the Temenos Community Forum ’25 in Madrid, Temenos, a global leader in banking technology, shared insights from a global study by Hanover Research of 424 business and technology leaders in financial services that underscores a bold shift in banking priorities.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a global leader in banking technology, today announced the results of a highwater benchmark for its cloud-native core banking solutions running on Microsoft Azure. The results will be presented at the Temenos Community Forum 2025.

Quant, a global leader in fintech and innovation, today announces the rollout of Quant Flow, an industry-first programmable money and banking infrastructure now available via a white-label solution to banks, institutions and corporates across Europe, the Middle East, and APAC.

AU10TIX, a global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention, has released its Q1 2025 Global Identity Fraud Report. This quarter, the report identifies a new fraud technique that AU10TIX has coined “Repeaters“. These are minor variations of a single digital asset (face picture, image background, document number, etc.) that bad actors deploy in small numbers to test detection systems before launching cross-industry mega-attacks. Fueled by Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS) toolkits that include pre-packaged tools like deepfake face pictures and image templates, the use of Repeaters rose 33% between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025.