Lightyear Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with over US$7 billion in assets under management, has signed an agreement to acquire PayByPhone, a global leader in mobile parking payments, from Corpay (NYSE: CPAY).

Exegy, a leading provider of market data, trading technology, and managed services for the capital markets, today announces that it will uniquely offer the first-ever overnight consolidated feed, comprising of all three after hours Alternative Trading Systems (ATS). This will allow clients to easily perform best price discovery, filling a structural gap in overnight markets. Axiom will also offer market data access to these ATSs with connectivity currently in development and is expected to be delivered in Q1.

Payment provider Exactly.com has partnered with GP Solutions, a leading travel software development company, in a strategic move to reinforce its position in the tourism segment. The partnership is rooted in a shared mission: to create equal conditions for travel businesses of any size, offering fair fees, human-driven support, and proactive performance analysis that helps companies scale without scaling costs. As a result, GP Solutions’ clients now gain direct access to Exactly.com’s modern payment infrastructure and expertise.

YouLend, the leading global embedded financing platform, and Intuit, the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, today announced that they will make working capital available to QuickBooks business customers across the UK. The collaboration sees YouLend being selected as a launch partner for Intuit UK’s new Capital Marketplace, which connects QuickBooks customers with partners for financing, lines of credit and alternative financing.

dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has partnered with Amway, the world’s largest direct selling company, to deliver reliable, locally optimized online payments across Latin America.

Sumsub, a global full-cycle compliance and fraud prevention platform, today announced its partnership with Fireblocks, an enterprise platform providing digital asset infrastructure solutions to businesses building on blockchain, to deliver seamless and secure Travel Rule compliance. Through this partnership, Sumsub’s Travel Rule solution will be natively integrated on the Fireblocks platform, empowering financial institutions and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) with real-time, automated, and dynamic verification for virtual asset transactions. This gives Fireblocks users complete control to tailor compliance workflows to their unique risk profiles, while ensuring automated and encrypted Travel Rule data exchange between VASPs, making stablecoin payments faster and safer.

B2BROKER, a global fintech solutions provider for financial institutions, has launched Multi-Server Copy Trading through its money management platform B2COPY, enabling brokers to unify MT4, MT5, and cTrader into a single investment network with full support for Copy Trading, MAM, and PAMM.

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today announced that it has launched Fresha Capital, in partnership with Fresha, the world's leading marketplace platform for beauty, wellness, and selfcare. The offering is now live in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden, with over £4 million in loans issued to date. This launch strengthens Fresha's financial product ecosystem, enabling small and medium businesses (SMBs) across the platform to access working capital quickly and seamlessly to fund their growth.

Conferma, the leading provider of virtual payment technology for corporate travel, has announced a new strategic partnership with Mesh, a recognised innovator in travel and expense management solutions.

dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has partnered with DHL Express Brazil, the leading international express shipping provider in the country, to power automated Pix payments for its local operations.

Taurus SA, a leader in enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with global management and technology consultancy Capco, a Wipro company. The new partnership will see Capco acting as Taurus’ implementation and integration partner in Continental Europe, supporting financial institutions as they deploy and integrate Taurus’ digital asset infrastructure within existing banking and capital markets environments.

360T, part of Deutsche Börse Group, and Bitpanda announced today a partnership focused on expanding access to crypto trading, with plans for further expansion across the digital assets space. The collaboration brings together Bitpanda’s digital asset services with 3DX, 360T’s MiCAR-regulated crypto-asset trading platform, to support institutional clients seeking compliant and scalable routes into digital assets.

Castles Technology, a global leader in Android-based payment acceptance solutions, today announced the successful acquisition of MT Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş. (MTBT). This milestone represents a significant step forward in Castles Technology’s strategy to become a more service-oriented global player while deepening its presence in strategic growth markets such as Türkiye.

Against a backdrop of persistent inflation uncertainty, geopolitical fragmentation, policy divergence, and sharp cross-asset swings, leading AI-driven market intelligence provider Permutable AI today announced the launch of its country-level macro signals data feeds - designed to help investors detect macro inflection points earlier and manage risk more confidently.

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