Acquired.com, a payments infrastructure provider for recurring commerce, today announces a partnership with Visa in the UK to bring to market Visa A2A, a new account-to-account payment solution, designed specifically for recurring and variable payments. The collaboration introduces an alternative to Direct Debit and card-on-file, designed to deliver a smarter way to make recurring payments.

Finance leaders are returning to work with renewed pressure to deliver efficiency, resilience and cost control, yet many remain constrained by what global S&P500 corporate payments company, Corpay, describes as an ‘automation deficit’. The term refers to the gap between the ambition CFOs have for automation and the fragmented reality of their current finance systems. Findings published in Corpay’s whitepaper, The Automation Deficit, reveal that despite strong intent to automate, manual work and disconnected tools still dominate core finance operations. The findings referenced in this release are drawn from Corpay’s independent research with UK finance leaders and are explored in detail in its Automation Deficit whitepaper.

Zepz, the global payments group behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, today announced it has acquired a key credit based product called Pomelo International, Inc, a platform that integrates consumer credit and global remittances with a credit card designed for money transfer.

TreviPay announces the launch of its Pay by Invoice solution for Visa-issuing banks, enabling issuers to capture a greater share of the $58 trillion North American B2B payments market. Through this collaboration with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, TreviPay’s order-to-cash automation technology combines with Visa’s commercial payment capabilities to help issuers move fragmented B2B spend into strategic, issuer-financed, invoice-based transactions.

IXOPAY, the enterprise-grade global payment infrastructure platform built for the era of agentic commerce, today announced the launch of three new TokenEx tokenization packages designed to help merchants secure payment data, reduce complexity, and maintain independence across processors, markets, and payment methods.

Bybit announced the launch of Bybit Pay in Peru through seamless integration with Yape and Plin

Mastercard has joined forces with Aafaq Islamic Finance (Aafaq) to introduce a new variant under its World Elite portfolio – the Aafaq World Elite credit card. The innovative Islamic finance product has been carefully designed to deliver upgraded features that elevate customer lifestyle experiences.

Global Money Exchange Co. LLC (GMEC), Oman’s leading money exchange company, today announced the launch of Global Pay, its new mobile application powered by Comviva’s mobiquity® Pay platform. This launch aligns with Oman’s national digital transformation vision and reinforces GMEC’s commitment to delivering innovative, secure, and inclusive digital financial solutions for daily life. For this initiative, GMEC has partnered with Comviva, a global leader in digital transformation solutions. Comviva is a subsidiary of Tech Mahindra and a member of the Mahindra Group.

Mastercard has joined forces with Aafaq Islamic Finance (Aafaq) to introduce a new variant under its World Elite portfolio – the Aafaq World Elite credit card. The innovative Islamic finance product has been carefully designed to deliver upgraded features that elevate customer lifestyle experiences.

Global Money Exchange Co. LLC (GMEC), Oman’s leading money exchange company, today announced the launch of Global Pay, its new mobile application powered by Comviva’s mobiquity® Pay platform. This launch aligns with Oman’s national digital transformation vision and reinforces GMEC’s commitment to delivering innovative, secure, and inclusive digital financial solutions for daily life. For this initiative, GMEC has partnered with Comviva, a global leader in digital transformation solutions. Comviva is a subsidiary of Tech Mahindra and a member of the Mahindra Group.

AMLYZE, a leading RegTech company and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, announces its partnership with Vinted Pay, the payments subsidiary of the European online marketplace for second-hand items, Vinted. As Vinted gradually expands the use of Vinted Pay across its markets, AMLYZE’s technology supports a compliant and secure rollout.

Across the UAE, payment habits continue to rapidly evolve, with more consumers embracing faster, more secure digital experiences

Agentic commerce is accelerating rapidly, reshaping how consumers discover, decide, and buy products and services online. Industry leaders forecast that a significant share of digital commerce will soon be agent-assisted: McKinsey projects that by 2030, agentic commerce could see between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in global retail value. As agentic commerce evolves, it faces a key challenge: securely integrating AI with complex payment systems simply.

BVNK and Visa have today announced a strategic partnership that will see BVNK powering stablecoin payments for Visa Direct

Emburse, the company defining Expense Intelligence through AI-powered travel and spend orchestration, today announced the launch of Invoice Tax Validation, a new capability that helps finance teams more easily comply with emerging e-invoice and Continuous Transaction Control requirements. The new capability underlines Emburse’s position as strategic, AI-powered infrastructure for CFOs seeking to proactively control and optimize spend across the enterprise.