Vistra, a leading provider of essential business services that help organizations to invest, grow and operate efficiently and compliantly across the world, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire iiPay, a market leader in cloud-based global payroll solutions. This strategic acquisition will significantly enhance the scale of Vistra’s payroll capabilities in the fast-growing mid-market and enterprise multi-country payroll space, positioning Vistra as a top 4 market leader in global payroll.

InvoiceCloud, a leading provider of online billing and payment services, today announced the active rollout of embedded generative and agentic AI technologies within its electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) platform. Building on its history of innovation, InvoiceCloud is committed to responsibly embedding emerging technologies to make billing and payments faster, smarter, and easier—further automating labor-intensive workflows, reducing manual errors, and expediting decision-making for businesses and their customers.

TreviPay, the most-trusted B2B payments and invoicing network, today announced its Pay by Invoice program with Northern Tool + Equipment, a major supplier of tools and equipment. The partnership powers the new Northern Tool Commercial Account program designed exclusively for businesses to provide greater flexibility and convenience in managing payments. The net terms program enables businesses net 30 payment terms and flexible invoicing options to better meet the payment preferences of B2B buyers across America.

Your Co-op Travel and Travelex, a global leader in foreign exchange, have partnered to offer Your Co-op Travel customers and travel agents enhanced access to market-leading travel money services across the UK.

Dr. Sameh El Hefny, Minister of Civil Aviation, Captain Ahmed Adel, Chairman & CEO of EgyptAir Holding Company, and Andrew Torre, Regional President for Visa CEMEA, witnessed the signing of an exclusive partnership agreement between Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), the global leader in digital payments, and EgyptAir, the national carrier of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The agreement aims to provide advanced technological solutions to support growth and expansion plans within the Egyptian aviation sector. This partnership aligns with Visa’s strategy to offer innovative technological solutions that help grow the businesses of its partners and reflects its vision of being the preferred partner for leading institutions and companies worldwide, particularly in the aviation sector.

FSS hosted the Dubai edition of its flagship event Simply Payments 2025 series, convening top minds in Fintech, Government Payments, and Artificial Intelligence

Chargeflow, the leading chargeback automation platform for online commerce, announced the launch of Chargeflow Connect today. This infrastructure-agnostic solution enables any payment providers, payment facilitators, ISOs, or fraud prevention platforms to offer natively integrated, end-to-end chargeback automation, alerts, and insights.

PayPoint has launched an additional three translated training guides in Hindi, Tamil, and Gujarati to boost accessibility for retailers, following demand for a broader range of languages.

Bluefin, the global leader in payment and data security, today announced a strategic partnership with Campus Innovation to integrate Bluefin's payment processing platform and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution into Campus Innovation's parking management platform, C-Park. This collaboration enables higher education institutions to offer secure, seamless, and efficient parking payment experiences to students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors.

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced a new, long-term global partnership with UATP, a global network owned and operated by the world's airlines. This collaboration integrates Affirm’s flexible and transparent pay-over-time options directly into the UATP network, which includes thousands of leading airlines, rail carriers, and travel agencies. By selecting Affirm, UATP enhances its payment ecosystem and offers its merchants in the U.S., U.K., and Canada seamless access to Affirm's popular short-term, interest-free installments and flexible, longer-term payment plans – always with no late or hidden fees.

Qenta, a global payments company, today announced the acquisition of Pipit Global, a B2B cross-border payments platform operating in over 45 countries.

Pointspay, the global leader in real-time loyalty payment solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Dutch payment service provider Pay. to enable thousands of merchants to integrate loyalty programs directly into their online checkout experience.

Bankart, a leading Slovenian payment processing company servicing 26 banks and other financial institutions in 5 countries in Southeastern Europe, has selected Iliad Solutions as its payment testing provider in a new multi-year deal.

Onafriq, Africa’s largest payments gateway, and Circle, stablecoin market leader and issuer of USDC, today announced their strategic partnership aimed at transforming cross-border payments and digital financial services. This collaboration marks a significant step towards compliantly leveraging stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure to boost Onafriq’s payment network, positioning it at the forefront of the digital payment’s revolution for real-world financial applications.

In a bold move to streamline dealership payment processes, Payment Assist UK Ltd and eDynamix have announced a strategic partnership to deliver a fully integrated payment solution within the exsto Customer Engagement Platform, under the exstoPay suite.