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Mambu and Mastercard have today announced a strategic collaboration that will make it easier for financial institutions using Mambu to offer fast, secure and transparent cross-border payments. Through this collaboration, Mambu will connect Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s portfolio of global money movement capabilities, with its Intelligent Core, a cloud-native core banking and payments platform built to…
Today at Sibos 2026 in Miami, Finastra announced the launch of Repair Recommendations – a new AI-powered capability within AI OperatorAssist. This move will help banks respond more quickly to growing payment activity by adding smarter decision-making into their existing workflows. Traditional payment processing issues like errors and disruptions cost the industry billions yearly, hinder seamless transactions, and…
Partnering with Nasdaq, HSBC has adopted Nasdaq Calypso for the bank’s exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) clearing platform, providing HSBC with a fully integrated set of clearing capabilities. HSBC’s Derivatives Clearing Services already execute ETD transactions for institutional clients across 40 global futures exchanges, and clear ETDs and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives through the world’s largest central counterparties…
Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, has signed a new agreement with Aljazira Bank, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading financial institutions, to modernize and expand its international remittance services. Through this collaboration, Aljazira Bank will significantly enhance the speed and reliability of consumer remittances and broaden its payment catalogue with new endpoints…
Lloyds is launching Get Paid, a new invoicing and payment collection tool designed to help business banking customers spend less time on admin and more time running their business. Get Paid will help support businesses with their payments admin, all within the Lloyds app and online banking, at no additional cost and without the need…
BNY (NYSE: BNY), a global financial services company, today announced the enablement of a Pay-to-Wallet capability, making it possible for banks to send cross-border payments from bank accounts to participating retail digital wallets, using existing SWIFT payment messages and correspondent banking infrastructure. BNY’s enablement of a Pay-to-Wallet solution combines its global payments capabilities, including its…
Today at Sibos 2026, Finastra announced Finastra Supply Chain Finance (SCF), a solution designed to help banks scale working capital programs faster and unlock growth. Integrated with Finastra’s Trade Innovation and Loan IQ platforms through the Nexus API suite, SCF enables banks to deliver connected trade, lending and supply chain finance services while accelerating time to market. …
Starting today, Amazon customers in the UK have a new way to pay for their purchases with the launch of instalment options from Affirm. The new Affirm payment options will be available to customers when shopping for millions of products. Customers can simply select Affirm as their payment method at checkout and apply to get…
Smartstream, the trusted data solutions provider for leading global financial institutions and enterprises, today announces two new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Smart Collateral, enabling dynamic, agentic collateral operations. Firms can connect an MCP-compatible AI assistant directly to their collateral management platform and interact with it conversationally, giving teams instant answers and controlled workflow…
Banking Circle S.A. (Banking Circle) has expanded its collaboration with OSL Group (HKEX: 863), a global stablecoin payment and trading platform, to support the global growth of OSL’s business solutions, connecting institutional clients to multi-currency payment rails across five additional currencies beyond EUR. Banking Circle is now supporting OSL across six currencies, including AUD, EUR, GBP, HKD,…
Zopa Bank has appointed Bruce Fletcher and Dr Paula Walter as Independent Non-Executive Directors to its Bank and Group Boards. In addition, current Board member Richard Goulding has been appointed Senior Independent Director. The move further strengthens Zopa’s governance and technological resilience as the Bank continues its rapid growth across lending, saving, everyday banking, investments and…
Working with inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay, bill management provider, Bill.me has seen on-time payments rise 17% in just three months as a result of adding open banking as a payment option. Across Europe, Bill.me enables its 200,000+ users to receive and manage recurring bills from more than 300 companies and pay multiple bills in a single…
