In a new report, Burbank and YouGov reveal that trust, not speed, now decides the sale at the online checkout.

Moolahgo Pte Ltd, a multi-award-winning Singapore FinTech and licensed Major Payment Institution, is pleased to announce that it has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to add Merchant Acquisition service to its license.

MoMo Rwanda Ltd is excited to announce a new partnership with TerraPay – a global money movement company, , to make it easier for Rwandans to receive money from abroad — quickly, securely, and directly into their MoMo wallets.

Each year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday spark a global sales frenzy, with the latter being the biggest online shopping day on record in 2024. According to Adobe’s online shopping forecast for the 2025 holiday season, online sales in the U.S. alone are expected to surpass $250 billion this year. But according to Chargebacks911, a global leader in dispute resolution and chargeback prevention, the projected increase in online sales will also open the gates to the most aggressive dispute season retailers have seen in years. The company warns that many merchants in the U.S. and U.K. are heading into peak holiday sales without a clear defense against friendly fraud, billing confusion and consumers who now treat banks as their first point of contact when anything feels off.

eToro, the trading and investing platform, today announced it has expanded its 24/5 trading offering to cover all stocks in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, allowing users to trade the most followed US equities around the clock 5 days a week.

United Creations, Alpine Group’s apparel manufacturing hub in Jordan, has partnered with IrisGuard to become the first company in Jordan to onboard the EyePay® Network, as a groundbreaking iris recognition payroll system that is raising the bar for transparency and worker empowerment across the country.

Africa's private capital leaders convened last week at the third annual Africa Prosperity Summit (APS), hosted by Ventures Platform, to chart the path for a new era of verifiable, scalable growth on the continent. The Summit, which was held from November 12th to 14th, 2025, with the theme “Growing the Pie: Building the Pathways for Liquidity, Scale, and Enduring Returns”, the Summit provided a forum for investors, operators, and other ecosystem players to explore the dynamics shaping Africa’s next decade of capital formation and liquidity.

Finance teams are spending more time chasing receipts than driving strategy, according to new data from cloud-based expense management platform Capture Expense. Its 2025 Expense Trends Report analysed more than 371,000 expense claims worth a combined total of £60 million, submitted across 460 UK organisations between January 2024 and June 2025. The report is one of the most comprehensive views of workplace spend in the UK.

Experts Vision Consulting EVC, the national leader in digital transformation, smart cities, and crowd management, signed a strategic partnership agreement with Paysky, the leading provider of digital financial solutions in the Middle East and Africa, to develop and operate “Zumrah”, the integrated digital payments platform and Super App dedicated to serving Haram visitors.

XTransfer, the world's leading B2B cross-border trade payment platform, and Maybank, a leading bank in ASEAN, are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to expand cross-border payment and Shariah-compliant solutions. Coinciding with Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, senior representatives of XTransfer and Maybank officially signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the event.

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, last night won the award for Market Surveillance Solution of the Year at the FOW MENA Awards in Dubai.

Eric Jing, Chairman of Ant Group, said the company's focus is on putting new payment and operation tools powered by AI and tokenisation technology in the hands of SMEs, to fully embrace the next wave of global productivity revolution.

Beehive Fintech, a leading digital SME lending platform, has transformed its underwriting process with Perfios's AI-powered automation solutions. By deploying Perfios Nexus, Beehive Fintech has accelerated loan underwriting by 48%, improving risk accuracy and decision speed.

Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) today announced at the Singapore FinTech Festival the successful deployment of an AI-powered Enterprise Fraud and Risk Management (EFRM) Solution from Clari5, a global leader in real-time financial crime management. Achieved in just 45 days, the implementation marks a milestone in PVB’s ongoing digital transformation journey, setting a new benchmark for enterprise-scale fraud prevention in the region.

dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), the leading payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, and Félix, a U.S. chat-based service that lets people send remittances through WhatsApp, announced a partnership to power instant remittance payouts in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, with stablecoin funding.