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Clearpay, a leader in Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), today unveils It’s About Time, a new global brand platform built on a simple idea: time is the only thing you can’t borrow, so spend it well. Created by Clearpay’s in-house team, the platform marks the company’s most significant brand investment to date. In collaboration with…
In a historic milestone for African sport, Alibaba Group, in partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Dakar 2026 Organizing Committee, will power the Summer Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 (Dakar 2026) with its cloud and AI technology. As a Worldwide Olympic TOP Partner, Alibaba will optimise operations and elevate spectator engagement for…
Newland Payment Technology (NPT), a global provider of payment terminals and technology solutions, and Aevi, the independent in-person payment orchestration platform, have partnered to make it easier for payment providers to deploy Android SmartPOS devices across different markets and merchant environments. Merchants, acquirers and independent software vendors (ISVs) need to support a wide range of customer…
Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announced a deepening of its strategic alliance with UnionPay International (UPI), transforming cross-border money movement into China’s mainland with bank-grade security and expansive operational scale. Through this collaboration, Thunes enables Financial Institutions, Payment Service Providers, and Money Transfer Operators to route instant cross-border consumer…
Trust Payments, a leading fintech innovator across the UK and EU, has launched Virtual Cards for travel businesses, powered by embedded finance provider Weavr, helping eligible travel companies manage supplier payments with greater visibility and control. Trust Payments already supports travel businesses in accepting payments from their customers. Virtual Cards extend that relationship to the other side…
Financial Crime 360 (FC360), organised by The Payments Association, has concluded its most successful edition to date, bringing together more than 1,500 senior professionals from banking, payments, fintech, regulation, law enforcement and technology. With financial crime becoming increasingly sophisticated, fuelled by advances in AI, cybercrime and recent high-profile cryptocurrency thefts, FC360 2026 highlighted the growing importance…
Planet, a global provider of payments and software for retail and hospitality, has partnered with embedded financing platform YouLend to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe access working capital when they need it most. Launching first in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and Denmark, the partnership will make YouLend’s digital…
I&M Bank, a leading Tier 1 commercial bank headquartered in Kenya, has partnered with Otoma, a provider of AI-native, no-code payments infrastructure, to modernise its end-to-end payments technology and enhance the speed, reliability and efficiency of its payment services. The new payment hub will help I&M deliver a more seamless and transparent customer experience by…
Alibaba Cloud, a leading global provider of AI infrastructure and the intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced the launch of its first public cloud region in the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam, with two new data centres now available to meet growing European demand for cloud and AI services. The announcement was made at the…
On Monday 2 November, the UK’s financial crime community will gather at Financial Crime 360 (FC360) for one of the country’s major anti-financial crime events. Hosted by The Payments Association, FC360 will bring together senior representatives from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Bank of England, City of London Police and Pay.UK, alongside leaders from banking,…
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a global leader in banking technology, today announced that Vancity has selected Temenos SaaS to modernize its core banking platform and support its next phase of growth. Serving the needs of more than 588,000 members across more than three million accounts and reporting CAD $42.4 billion in assets, Vancity is Canada’s largest credit…
Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, concluded last Wednesday Oct 21, at The Venetian in Las Vegas, bringing together ~11,000 attendees from 85+ countries, 3,000+ companies, 450 sponsors and over 600 speakers from across the global financial ecosystem. Against a backdrop of rapid technological change and evolving regulation this year’s show explored how the forces…
