DXC Technology (NYSE:DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced a strategic partnership with Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, to help banks seamlessly adopt digital asset custody and payment capabilities at enterprise scale.

Paybis, provider of crypto tools to the world’s leading businesses, more than tripled its transaction volume in 2025, driven by surging institutional demand for stablecoin payments. This growth aligns with broader global trends, as stablecoin transaction volumes rose by 33% worldwide, reaching a record USD 37 trillion, according to DeFiLlama data.

Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, is launching stablecoin balances for its merchants and users across all its offerings. This is being achieved through Flutterwave's collaboration with Nuvion and Turnkey to provide a secure, flexible, and verifiable stablecoin balance infrastructure. It is a major step in Flutterwave’s vision to make stablecoins a key pillar of Africa’s financial ecosystem, forming a core backbone for the next wave of financial transformation and global connectivity.

Noah, a global payments infrastructure provider, today announced a partnership with Picnic, a leading digital wallet and investment platform, to unlock direct, dollar-native access for Brazil’s growing global workforce.

South African furniture retailer Lewis Group is migrating its credit decisioning to the cloud with Provenir, a global leader in AI risk decisioning, to streamline its onboarding processes and expand customer touchpoints.

Bank of Baroda, India’s International Bank, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd. (IIFCL) to facilitate joint lending and loan syndication for a wide range of viable infrastructure projects. This partnership will accelerate the growth of key infrastructure projects being set up in India.

With tighter budgets and rising admin demands, school finance teams face constant pressure to work smarter. In response, ParentPay Group has completely updated its trusted FMS platform – keeping everything schools know and rely on but redesigning it for clarity and speed within a secure cloud setting.

As more workers across the UK fall into the trap of using generic AI to answer work-related queries, PayFit has announced that its personalised HR AI agent, PayFit Copilot, is now available to all employees using its platform.

Mastercard, in collaboration with The Egyptian Credit Bureau – iscore, announced a strategic partnership to study building a new scoring model that advances Egypt’s digital lending future and deepens financial inclusion.

Global broking business Brokerslink has strengthened its network with the addition of Vantel, a Sweden-based specialist insurance technology company focused on AI-powered transformation for commercial insurance brokers.

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.

Currency.com, a global digital finance provider, has announced a new strategic partnership with Zodia Markets, an institutional-grade digital asset liquidity venue. The collaboration strengthens Currency.com’s global trading infrastructure and enhances its ability to support fast, fairly-priced execution of large-volume transactions.

Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) (“Nakamoto” or the “Company”), a Bitcoin company, today announced that it has changed its corporate name from KindlyMD, Inc. to Nakamoto Inc., to integrate its corporate identity with the Company’s long-term strategy in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The healthcare business will continue operations through Kindly LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nakamoto. The Company’s common stock and warrants will remain listed under the NAKA and NAKAW ticker symbols, respectively.

Cashmaster International, a global leader in cash management solutions, today announced a strategic reseller partnership with Partner Tech Middle East FZCO. The collaboration will accelerate Cashmaster’s expansion across the United Arab Emirates, launching in Dubai with a clear roadmap to scale across the wider GCC as the next phase of growth.

Three industry-leading firms with a legacy of serving community financial institutions for nearly four decades have combined to form OptimaFI, currently serving more than 2,500 clients. OptimaFI leverages a dynamic combination of data sets to bring clients affordable, quick to market solutions supported by expert advice across marketing, credit risk, and liquidity management functions. The combination brings together Infusion Marketing Group with two companies it acquired in 2025, QwickRate and IntelliCredit, under a unified brand with a mission to help community banks and credit unions make more informed decisions about growth, risk, and profitability.