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Akurateco, a leading white-label payment software vendor, has made its developer documentation directly readable by AI coding assistants, so that developers integrating its payment API can query it from inside the tools they already work in. The capability is built on Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI assistants to external data…
YouLend, the leading global embedded financing platform, and Dojo, a payments technology provider, today announce a major milestone in their long-standing partnership. Together, the two companies have extended more than £2 billion in flexible funding to UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – capital that has gone towards restocking inventory, repainting shopfronts, hiring staff, and…
Worldline, a European leader in payment services, today becomes one of the first in Europe to launch a payment handler for the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard for agentic commerce co-developed by Google and industry partners. The integration enables merchants to accept AI-initiated purchases across multiple platforms with a unified setup. Agentic commerce is reshaping…
Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today announced the launch of direct acquiring in the US under its Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank (MALPB) charter in Georgia, marking a significant milestone in the company’s long-term investment in North America. Operating through the MALPB gives Checkout.com the ability to optimize our platform for higher performance,…
TerraPay, a global money movement company, and Alipay+, Ant International’s unified wallet gateway, today announced a strategic partnership to enable seamless cross-border QR payments for digital wallets, significantly enhancing global payments interoperability for users across Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. In the initial phase, 15 of the digital wallets across Africa connected to…
Silverflow, the modern card acquiring processing platform, has partnered with Griner, a global payments processor delivering fast, simple and flexible solutions for PSPs, marketplaces and eCommerce businesses. As the two companies build on a successful launch in Cyprus, they prepare for further regional expansion across key European markets. The move comes as acquirers across Europe…
TransferMate, the world’s leading provider of embedded B2B payments infrastructure, has today announced a partnership with Serrala, the global leader in finance process automation, to embed global payment capabilities directly into Serrala’s finance automation platform. The partnership will enable Serrala’s global customer base of more than 2,800 organizations to access TransferMate’s payment infrastructure through a…
Icon Solutions and MongoDB today published the results of a joint benchmark showing that the Icon Payments Framework (IPF), running on MongoDB Atlas, processed 6,000 end-to-end payment transactions per second (around 430,000 database operations per second) with a mean end-to-end latency of 0.51 seconds, and recovered from both application and database node failures with zero data loss. Account-to-account…
Shift4, a global leader in integrated payments and commerce technology, has been selected by Sol og Strand, one of Denmark’s largest holiday-home rental agencies, to provide payment processing across its portfolio of more than 7,000 privately owned properties. Founded in 1979, Sol og Strand offers holiday homes and apartments throughout Denmark, including Bornholm, Skagen, Blokhus, Blåvand…
More than one in ten online shoppers are expected to routinely use AI agents to purchase products on their behalf by 2030, according to a new Mastercard report, A Short History of the Future of Shopping and Payments.1 The report draws on Mastercard research and the perspectives of four world-leading futurists from the US, Europe and Asia. It explores how a fundamental shift in shopping habits…
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…
Nexi, the European PayTech leader, announces two strategic partnerships with JCB and UnionPay International (UPI) to expand both global payment schemes across public transport in the Campania region of southern Italy, including Naples. The partnerships are delivered through the Unico Campania consortium, which manages integrated ticketing for multiple public transport operators in the region. Thanks to these…
