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Tribe Payments, a global payments fintech specialising in issuer and acquirer processing, has appointed Alex Lim as Head of Sales and Solutions, Asia-Pacific. Alex joins from Pure Commerce, a Euronet Worldwide company, where he was General Manager of Merchant Services for Asia-Pacific. In his new role, he will report into and work alongside Matt Weir,…
Guest contribution by Robert Bueninck, CEO of Unzer Retailers are open to change. They are investing in digital tools and better customer experiences. That is the good news. The bad news is that what often holds them back is not a lack of ambition, but complexity. Our latest survey makes that very clear. Digitalisation cannot…
Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in AI-first business consulting and technology services, and ABN AMRO Bank, one of the largest banks in the Netherlands, today announced the extension of their strategic collaboration to accelerate the bank’s AI-driven transformation. As part of this, Infosys will deliver application development, testing, and support services to…
The Payments Association (TPA), the trade association representing the payments industry, has acquired its European sister organisation, The Payments Association EU (TPA EU), bringing the two communities under one umbrella and creating a combined network of more than 350 member organisations. The acquisition, which follows a unanimous vote by TPA EU members, marks the first…
UK consumers trust artificial intelligence more with their health and their legal problems than they do with their money, according to new research from Enfuce, Europe’s card issuing and processing powerhouse. The findings point to a payments-specific trust gap. And as AI moves deeper behind every transaction, it’s arriving in the one place people already…
Absa Group, one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services providers, has selected Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, as a strategic Multicurrency Clearing (MCC) partner for the Group. The new collaboration builds on the two companies’ recent launch of Absa Global Pay in South Africa which demonstrated the value of combining…
payabl., a European financial technology provider, today announced an extended partnership with London Lions for the 2026/27 season. As the club’s Official Payments Partner, payabl. will support London Lions’ financial operations with multi-currency business accounts and corporate cards, helping the club manage payments, spending and international activity as it continues to grow. The expanded partnership…
Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO), a global leader in risk assessment and credit analytics, and Allvue Systems, LLC, a leading technology and data provider for private capital markets, today announced the launch of the Moody’s Analytics EDF-X Private Credit Model, a new forward-looking credit risk model purpose-built for the private credit market. Built on Moody’s deep…
XMLdation, a leading provider of payments testing solutions, has developed Buddy Bank™ for the RTP® network, a self-service simulator that helps financial institutions (FIs) optimize their real-time payments testing. Testing with Buddy Bank™ is a significant improvement on traditional testing processes – where FIs rely on coordinated testing with friendly banks – delivering enhanced efficiency…
At SIBOS, senior technology and AI leaders from Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, BNY and Citi joined Google Cloud for a media roundtable focused on how financial institutions are moving artificial intelligence from experimentation into enterprise-scale deployment. A central message from the discussion was clear: financial services is entering an agentic AI era, in which AI…
BNP Paribas and Google Cloud today announced a new five-year partnership, to expand BNP Paribas’ access to Google Cloud’s infrastructure and advanced AI capabilities including Gemini Enterprise and Gemini models. Through this partnership, Google Cloud technologies will support the expansion of BNP Paribas’ infrastructure and AI capabilities as the Bank moves towards broader deployment of agentic…
Growing pet-related spending is emerging as one of the trends shaping Britain’s ‘couch economy’, as new Visa research reveals how increasingly home-centred lifestyles are changing where and how UK households spend. Around 5% of UK payment cards now show regular spending at pet merchants, up approximately 1.5 percentage points since 2019. The growth reflects recurring…
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