Akurateco has announced a strategic partnership with Kushki to strengthen PSPs access to advanced orchestration tools and local payment coverage across the region

Volt, the global real-time payments platform, today announces its new partnership with YouHodler, a Web3 fintech bridging crypto and traditional finance. The partnership is now live across the EU, enabling YouHodler to offer customers a faster, more localised experience when moving money in and out of the platform. Through Volt, YouHodler users can complete real-time account top-ups and initiate real-time payouts, supported by localised checkout experiences in English, French, German and Italian.

SPAYZ.io has unveiled a set of major market findings that signal a decisive shift in how users pay and how merchants must adapt in 2026, particularly across high‑risk verticals. Its analysis, drawn from real operational data across 35+ countries, highlights the rise of mobile wallets, instant bank rails, and region‑specific UX as the defining factors governing payment success globally.

European fintech myPOS continues to expand its payment services across the continent, launching Tap to Pay on iPhone in Romania and Slovakia today. With the addition of these two markets, Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available through the myPOS Glass app in a total of 15 European markets, including the UK, France and Germany, enabling merchants to accept contactless payments directly on their smartphones.

AAZZUR, the embedded finance orchestration platform, has announced a partnership with Wallester, the European-licensed electronic money institution and Visa Principal Member, to integrate Wallester’s card issuing infrastructure into AAZZUR’s growing regulated partner ecosystem.

As the global Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) market accelerates toward nearly USD 912 billion by 2030, G2A.COM is bringing payments spread in time directly into the gaming economy. In a market where digital content consumption is rising but price sensitivity remains high, payment flexibility is emerging as a strategic growth lever. The world’s largest marketplace for digital entertainment has introduced Klarna at checkout, unlocking instalment and deferred payment options across more than 90,000 digital offers.

PhonePe, today announced the launch of the PhonePe ‘RuPay On-The-Go’ Card, a National Common Mobility Card (NCMC). This launch is a step towards India’s ‘One Nation One Card’ vision, aimed at digitizing transit payments across India. The PhonePe ‘On-The-Go’ Card is designed to simplify the user’s daily commute by functioning as an all-in-one transit card. It allows for quick, tap-and-pay transactions on all NCMC-enabled services, including metros, buses, trains, tolls, and parking across India in a fully interoperable manner.

Segpay, a pioneer in digital payment processing, announced today the addition of Pay by Bank (UK), powered by TrueLayer. This additional payment option offers real-time, secure bank-to-bank payments for UK customers.

Visa has launced Intelligent Authorization, a new capability on the Visa Acceptance Platform that enables acquirers to modernise their payment processing through a single API connection

Network International (Network) (www.Network.ae), a leading fintech company across the Middle East and Africa, has announced the successful enablement of Apple Pay acceptance by powering card tokenisation for Apple smartphones for four renowned Egyptian banks, as part of the country’s digital transformation initiatives.

HBX Group (HBX.SM), a leading B2B travel technology marketplace, today announced a strategic partnership with Outpayce from Amadeus, to accelerate the development of its fintech capabilities and transform how travel buyers and sellers manage digital payments.

SUNRATE, the global payment and treasury management platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Repayd, the specialist travel merchant account provider, at ITB Berlin 2026, the world’s largest travel trade show.

Flowpay, a European fintech focused on supporting SMEs with access to capital, is expanding across key European markets with the acquisition of Tapline. The German startup has developed a financing solution for AI, SaaS, and other technology-driven startups. Through the acquisition, Flowpay is expanding its reach to fast-growing technology companies and presence in Germany and the United Kingdom. With Tapline’s technology, know-how, and team, Flowpay adds a new product and expertise to its offering.

AccessPay, the leading bank integration provider, today announced a new partnership with PayPoint to integrate PayPoint’s Confirmation of Payee (CoP) capability into AccessPay’s payments automation suite for modern finance teams. With £258m lost to authorised push payment (APP) fraud in the first half of 2025 alone, organisations need access to robust payment controls that scale with their operations.1 PayPoint’s CoP offering enables AccessPay’s customers to verify payee account details as part of their payment workflows, reinforcing AccessPay’s position at the centre of a growing ecosystem of technologies designed to automate and de-risk the Office of the CFO.

PawaPay, a leading pan-African payments aggregator, has partnered with Deriv to support mobile money deposits across multiple African markets, with plans to expand further. The integration gives Deriv users access to local payment methods through a single, compliant connection to major mobile operators.