Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, today announced the expansion of its crypto card across Africa, powered by payments technology from Mastercard and infrastructure provider Immersve. The card allows users to spend crypto directly from a self-custodial wallet at hundreds of millions of merchants accepting Mastercard worldwide, enabling everyday purchases such as groceries, travel and digital subscriptions using stablecoins through seamless crypto-to-fiat conversion.

Daloopa, the essential data infrastructure for AI and agentic workflows in financial services, today announced a new integration with Perplexity that allows joint customers to connect their existing financial data licenses directly into Perplexity and the always-on digital worker, Perplexity Computer.

MoonPay, the leading crypto payments network, today announced it will launch MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard debit card that lets users and AI agents spend stablecoins directly from their onchain balances. Through seamless crypto to fiat conversion at the point of purchase, the card can be used at any online merchant globally that accepts Mastercard.

RS2, a Tier-1 global provider of payment processing infrastructure and payment technology solutions, today announced a significant long-term processing agreement with a major financial services partner in Latin America.

Rayls today announced the launch of its Public Chain Mainnet, building on prior deployments and collaboration with leading financial partners and institutions, including Mastercard, XP Inc., and JP Morgan Kinexys. The launch of the mainnet marks the completion of the initial vision for the system, where institutions can tokenise assets in private environments and distribute them via an interoperable public chain.

Origin, the AI-native Enterprise Benefits Intelligence platform, today announced a new partnership with ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention. The integration will connect Origin’s proprietary AI engine, Cuido™, with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery, enabling employees to receive accurate, contextual answers to benefits questions directly within the ServiceNow Employee Center, without raising a ticket, waiting for a human agent, or navigating to a separate system.

Astrada, the data layer for autonomous finance, today announced the close of its $3.8 million seed funding round. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors, and Nyca Partners, with a strategic investment from Mastercard and follow-on participation from existing investor Visa.

Alfa has announced the expansion of Alfa Systems, its proven SaaS platform for equipment and automotive finance, to support commercial loan operations.

SunTec Business Solutions has announced that it has been positioned as a Luminary in Corporate Banking in Celent’s Enterprise Pricing and Product Management in Banking: Next-Generation Platforms report released recently. A Luminary is Celent’s top-tier designation reserved for technology solutions that demonstrate excellence in both advanced technology and breadth of functionality.

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today announced a new partnership with Lavazza, a key player in the global coffee market. The partnership will unify the coffee brand’s digital payments ecosystem across international markets, while supporting the growth of B2B and B2C ecommerce and retail initiatives.

Building on recent announcements with Galaxy and Ondo Finance regarding governance solutions for issuer-sponsored and third party-sponsored tokenized securities, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) today announced it is now extending its market-leading proxy voting and disclosure solutions to third party-custodied tokenized securities, effectively supporting governance across all security tokenization models outlined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As tokenization accelerates the convergence of traditional finance and digital markets globally, Broadridge is supporting adoption with a full suite of governance solutions including on-chain voting, a unified view for issuers of their on- and off-chain shares, and institutional grade reporting and controls.

After leading dozens of investments, primarily in the cybersecurity space that have so far generated 22 exits with a combined value of approximately $2.5 billion, Yaron Elad and Elik Etzion are embarking on a new path. Together with their US-based partner Gurinder Sidhu, they are launching AlphaDrive, a $100 million fund focusing on cybersecurity and AI, operating under a unique investment model.

Zoth, the privacy-first stablecoin neobank purpose-built for the Global South & the Agentic Economy, and Bakkt, Inc., a regulated digital asset infrastructure company, have signed an MOU establishing the framework for a strategic partnership. Bakkt’s participation runs through its licensed subsidiary Bakkt Financial Solutions I, LLC, which holds pan-US money transmitter licenses.

ETS Connect UK today announced an evolution of the support model for the UK bond Consolidated Tape (CT), announcing an open ecosystem that enables third-party providers to deliver enhanced support services to market participants.

With increasing volumes and growing operational pressure, FICO has identified a significant opportunity for artificial intelligence to transform collections strategies, improving efficiency, reducing costs and delivering better customer outcomes.