Lithic, the card issuer processing platform powering next-generation financial experiences, today announced a partnership with Stearns Bank, a well-capitalized, Minnesota-headquartered financial services institution with over a century of experience and customers nationwide. This collaboration expands Lithic's enterprise-grade card program capabilities, enabling fintechs to launch comprehensive consumer and commercial card programs with trusted infrastructure.

Club Employés, the leading French platform specialised in managing employee benefits for Comités sociaux et économiques, has chosen Mangopay to scale its operations across Europe with a more flexible payment infrastructure and to streamline how employee benefits are funded, distributed, and redeemed.

Falcon Finance, issuer of the overcollateralized synthetic dollar USDf, today announced the integration of USDf into Altery's crypto-to-fiat infrastructure through a partnership with Synterra Connect. The collaboration enables USDf holders to convert their holdings into fiat currencies and access regulated payment services.

Global payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo and Visa, a world leader in digital payments, have announced a partnership that will provide fast and user-friendly crypto-to-fiat global off-ramping via Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time payments platform.

For many organizations, collecting payments is one of the most time-consuming and frustrating parts of customer service. Agents spend hours chasing overdue balances, customers get stuck in queues, and inconsistent processes slow down revenue recovery.

Tinaba with Banca Profilo announces the launch of digital payments in the Chinese mainland through the extension of its strategic partnership with Alipay+, Ant International’s global wallet gateway solution, bringing a simple, cashless and local payment experience to Italian travellers in the world’s largest digital market.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced it has agreed to acquire Cymbio, a multi-channel orchestration platform that helps brands sell across agentic surfaces, including Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity, and other e-commerce channels. PayPal previously partnered with Cymbio as part of its agentic commerce services, a suite of solutions that allows merchants to attract customers and drive sales in the new era of AI-powered commerce.

Checkout.com announced a new partnership with Freenow by Lyft to deliver reliable and high-performing digital payments across all nine of its European markets

Navro, the pioneering fintech that simplifies international payments for businesses, today announces the launch of its Statutory & Tax service – a comprehensive payments and compliance solution capable of processing the statutory payments and tax deductions alongside payroll and pension payouts. Navro’s Statutory & Tax service is a world first and also fulfils all statutory data requirements – which can vary considerably from jurisdiction to jurisdiction – alongside payment processing.

Gr4vy, the cloud-based payments orchestration platform, has joined forces with inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay, to provide its merchant customers with instant access to a wide range of local and international payment methods. The partnership underlines Gr4vy’s commitment to taking a merchant-first approach and processing every payment via the best route every time.

DXC Technology (NYSE:DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced a strategic partnership with Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, to help banks seamlessly adopt digital asset custody and payment capabilities at enterprise scale.

Noah, a global payments infrastructure provider, today announced a partnership with Picnic, a leading digital wallet and investment platform, to unlock direct, dollar-native access for Brazil’s growing global workforce.

With tighter budgets and rising admin demands, school finance teams face constant pressure to work smarter. In response, ParentPay Group has completely updated its trusted FMS platform – keeping everything schools know and rely on but redesigning it for clarity and speed within a secure cloud setting.

As more workers across the UK fall into the trap of using generic AI to answer work-related queries, PayFit has announced that its personalised HR AI agent, PayFit Copilot, is now available to all employees using its platform.

Mastercard, in collaboration with The Egyptian Credit Bureau – iscore, announced a strategic partnership to study building a new scoring model that advances Egypt’s digital lending future and deepens financial inclusion.