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Finastra and Komgo Partner to Advance Digital Trade Finance

Finastra today announced a partnership with Komgo, a leading digital trade finance platform provider, to help banks and corporates overcome inefficiencies caused by fragmented trade systems and manual, data-intensive processes. Together, the companies will streamline end-to-end digital trade finance workflows and improve connectivity across trade ecosystems, enabling scalable growth. The partnership will leverage Trade Innovation Nexus, Finastra’s open API integration…

FinTech · SEP 14, 2026 · 2 min read

AI agents are challenging the existing model of financial supervision, new Zango analysis finds

As Parliament considers major reforms to the UK’s financial regulatory framework through the Financial Services and Markets Bill, new analysis from Zango AI suggests that the rise of increasingly autonomous AI is driving a broader rethink of how financial institutions are supervised. The analysis, which includes a foreword from the Rt Hon John Glen MP,…

Artificial Intelligence · SEP 14, 2026 · 3 min read

LHV Bank Moves to New Leeds Premises in ‘Northern Square Mile’ to Support Growing Business

FinTech bank, LHV, has moved into new, larger premises at Wellington Place in Leeds, a district increasingly known as the ‘Northern Square Mile.’ The relocation represents the Bank’s long-term commitment to Leeds, with the new office space chosen for its proximity to leading technical talent and its support for the Bank’s digital-first, technology-led growth. Wellington…

FinTech · SEP 14, 2026 · 3 min read

Checkout.com goes live with US direct acquiring under MALPB charter

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,…

FinTech · SEP 10, 2026 · 2 min read

TerraPay connects its Wallet Interoperability Network Xend to Alipay+, strengthening global payments interoperability

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…

FinTech · SEP 10, 2026 · 3 min read

Silverflow and Griner Partner to Power Growth Across Europe

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…

FinTech · SEP 10, 2026 · 2 min read

Zopa Bank appoints Bruce Fletcher and Paula Walter to its Board

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…

FinTech · SEP 10, 2026 · 4 min read

TransferMate and Serrala partner to bring global payments into finance automation workflows

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…

FinTech · SEP 10, 2026 · 2 min read

BVNK and Marqeta partner to power stablecoin-card infrastructure

BVNK and Marqeta, Inc. (NASDAQ: MQ) today announced a partnership to deliver stablecoin-backed card capabilities to crypto-native and non-crypto companies. The integration will enable Marqeta’s customers to embed stablecoin capabilities into wallets, cards and everyday financial products. Together, the companies are unlocking stablecoin spendability to allow users to transact in digital dollars at millions of merchants globally…

FinTech · SEP 10, 2026 · 5 min read

Icon Solutions and MongoDB Benchmark Shows IPF Processing 6,000 Payments per Second with Zero Data Loss Under Failure

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…

FinTech · SEP 8, 2026 · 5 min read

CRIF launches AI anti-fraud solution for financial providers to tackle tampering during customer onboarding

CRIF – the global leader in credit and insurance information, analytics and solutions – has today launched its AI-powered fraud detection services in the UK, helping financial providers tackle tampering during customer onboarding. Designed specifically for banks and insurers, the tool helps strengthen onboarding checks, identifying potentially fraudulent information before businesses are accepted onto financial providers’…

FinTech · SEP 8, 2026 · 3 min read

Sol og Strand selects Shift4 to upgrade payments and elevate the guest experience across its Danish holiday-home network

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…

FinTech · SEP 8, 2026 · 3 min read

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