HBL has joined hands with Mastercard in launching its Business Debit Card designed exclusively for SMEs - sole proprietors and entrepreneurs. Two card variants have been launched, Classic and World Business Debit Card. This initiative marks a major stride in the Bank’s commitment to enable Pakistan’s businesses with innovative financial solutions and accelerating the shift towards a cashless Pakistan economy.

As Vietnam’s business landscape rapidly digitalises, a new study1 commissioned by Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, shows that while Vietnamese businesses are leading the Asia Pacific region in adopting B2B card payments, significant opportunities remain for further growth and business benefits. The study conducted by KoreFusion, an international strategy consulting firm specialising in payments2, found that card payments account for 8.3% of B2B payment volumes among B2B card-accepting merchants in Vietnam – the highest proportion in Asia Pacific, well above the regional average of 3.3%. While domestic bank transfers remain the primary payment method for B2B transactions in the region (92%), Vietnam’s strong card adoption signals the country’s advanced position in digital payments.

UAB Perlas Finance, one of Lithuania’s leading payment service providers, has chosen AMLYZE, the RegTech company trusted by banks and leading marketplaces, to further enhance its compliance framework and reinforce its fight against money laundering and other financial crimes.

Yellow Network, the web3 universal layer of infrastructure, announced the $YELLOW token sale on Republic closed after raising over $1 million from accredited investors. The over-subscribed sale is among the first Web3 infrastructure tokens sold under Regulation D, setting a standard for compliant, institution-quality tokenization in the US.

Bitso Business - the B2B arm of Bitso that provides infrastructure for efficient and transparent cross-border payments -, today released at the Stablecoin Conference 2025 its brand new report: Stablecoins Landscape in Latin America for the first half of 2025. The report, based on a behavioral analysis of a sample of more than 1,300 of Bitso Business clients, is a spin-off of Bitso’s landmark Crypto Landscape in Latin America report. The analysis reveals an exponential growth in the adoption and use of stablecoins by businesses across the region.

Moca Network, a flagship project by Animoca Brands that is building the world’s largest chain-agnostic decentralized digital identity network, today announced it has partnered with Spree Finance (“Spree”), the commerce and rewards infrastructure layer for tokenized economies, to launch AIR Shop in September 2025. AIR Shop is a verifiable loyalty platform that will enable its users to earn rewards by purchasing from merchants in travel, entertainment, and premium retail.

Ledn, one of the world’s largest BTC-backed lenders, has appointed Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, as Lead Arranger for the refinancing of its BTC-backed loan. This follows the successful close of their USD $50 million syndicated loan in 2024. The new 2x oversubscribed transaction further strengthens the relationship between Ledn and Sygnum and provides Ledn's clients with continued access to the best product and pricing in the market.

ZestyAI, the leading provider of AI-driven property risk analytics, today announced an expanded partnership with Steadily, a top-rated insurer for rental properties, to deliver advanced hail and wind risk models that enable more precise underwriting. Building on a successful rollout in 2024, Steadily is broadening its use of ZestyAI’s property-specific insights to better assess storm risk and support growth across high-exposure states.

Camp Network, the decentralized platform designed to power the future of IP and AI, today announced the public launch of its Layer 1 blockchain’s mainnet, marking a major milestone in its mission to bring verifiable ownership, co-creation, and monetization of digital intellectual property in the AI era. With 50+ live dApps spanning AI, entertainment, gaming, music, and more, Camp is integrating provenance on-chain to enable a future where AI and all creativity can work collaboratively.

Evergent, the global leader in customer management and monetization for streaming, direct-to-consumer sports, PayTV, and digital subscription businesses, today announced its collaboration with Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses. The partnership fuels the launch of Evergent Payments, a powerful, pre-integrated new module within the Evergent Monetization Platform (EMP). Evergent Payments enables digital service providers to reduce deployment time dramatically, gain instant access to multiple global regions, and maximize recurring revenue — all while benefiting from advanced reporting and premium customer support for a clear competitive edge over standalone payment processors.

StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX) today announced that its Payments Division (“StoneX Payments” or “the Company”) has entered into a strategic partnership with Bank Mendes Gans (BMG), a recognized leader in liquidity and cash management services. The collaboration is set to strengthen BMG’s capabilities in cross-border payments in thinly traded currencies by leveraging StoneX Payments’ industry-leading technology stack and last-mile delivery expertise.

Mitigram, a leading digital platform for trade finance execution, has today announced a partnership with Complidata, a specialist in AI-driven trade finance automation and financial crime compliance. The collaboration aims to enhance efficiency, compliance and risk management across the trade finance ecosystem.

Adyen, the global payments platform trusted by leading companies worldwide, today announced the next step in its partnership with Hungry Jack’s with the launch of Adyen Giving, making it simpler than ever for customers to donate at checkout.

Turnkey has partnered with MoonPay to support native fiat onramps, enabling users to purchase crypto without leaving your app.

iDenfy, a Lithuania-based identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention business, recently announced its partnership with Ping Proxies, a rapidly growing UK-based provider of ethical residential proxies and web-data collection tools. By implementing iDenfy’s Know Your Customer (KYC) software, Ping Proxies will aim to efficiently scale the user onboarding process via AI-powered identity verification while ensuring that its proxy infrastructure is protected from fraudulent sign-ups.