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Newland Payment Technology (NPT), a global provider of payment terminals and technology solutions, has partnered with Futurex, a leader in enterprise data security, to deliver a hosted remote key injection (RKI) service for payment terminals across North America. Before a payment terminal can accept transactions, it must be loaded with the cryptographic keys that protect cardholder…
Payhawk, the AI-native spend management platform, today released new data showing that its Financial Controller Agent has reduced expense submission times for vendor invoices by 46% since the beginning of the year. The company is also making Agent Fetch available to all customers, enabling the agent to move from reminding employees to retrieving invoices itself…
Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced that the Bank of Maldives (BML) has selected Finastra Essence to modernize its core banking operations and support its long-term digital transformation strategy. The agreement will enable the bank to accelerate product innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and deliver seamless banking experiences across both conventional and Islamic banking services. By…
TerraPay, a global money movement company, has partnered with TPBank, one of Vietnam’s most innovative and digitally focused banks, to offer customers real-time outbound cross-border payment capabilities to destinations worldwide. Vietnam recorded 17.7 billion non-cash transactions in 2024, up 56% year-on-year, and by the first nine months of 2025 alone that figure had already reached nearly…
DataVisor, the AI real-time decisioning platform for fraud and financial crime adaptive prevention, today announced a wave of industry validation and awards for its innovation in AI-driven risk decisioning, financial crime management, and AI-assisted operations. Central to that momentum is Vera, DataVisor’s suite of AI agents that bring real-time intelligence, automation, and decisioning into the…
Cordant today emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding co-led by Motive Partners and Oak HC/FT. Cordant is a command center for payments companies, fintechs and banks operating across fragmented financial infrastructure. The platform ingests signals from payment rails, bank accounts, ledgers, compliance and risk systems, and normalizes them into a shared event…
Allvue Systems today launched Portfolio Intelligence and Deal Analytics on OneVue, its next-generation platform for private capital. The release delivers two capabilities private credit teams have long lacked: a modern, AI-powered workspace for portfolio monitoring built on data they already maintain, and the first private credit benchmarks constructed from actual deal-level data — not public…
The Bir ecosystem, the Caucasus’ first fully integrated banking, payments and e-commerce ecosystem, today announces a strategic partnership with UnionPay International, a subsidiary of China’s UnionPay. The partnership significantly expands acceptance of UnionPay cards across Azerbaijan, marking an important milestone in strengthening the country’s connectivity to the global payments ecosystem. Following the successful completion of…
YouLend, the world’s leading embedded financing platform, is launching a strategic partnership with JTL, Germany’s leading e-commerce and ERP infrastructure platform. The goal is to provide JTL’s customers with fast, flexible access to growth capital – directly within their existing JTL platform. The new solution is fully integrated into the JTL ecosystem, following the one-platform…
New research from American Express and Small Business Saturday UK reveals that Britain’s small business owners are spending almost twice as much time on administration as they are on growing their businesses, highlighting the time pressures facing busy entrepreneurs who are juggling multiple roles. The annual SME Business Barometer research, which surveyed 1,000 owners of…
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a global leader in banking technology, today announced it has been recognized as the World’s Best Core Banking Solution in the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2026, winning for the second consecutive year. For more than 30 years, the Euromoney Awards for Excellence have recognized the key players in the financial services industry…
Responding to the limited choice of checkout-optimised payment solutions for small businesses[1], inclusive global payment solutions provider, Ecommpay, has launched a new self-serve payments platform. Built on the success of its enterprise level solution, Ecommpay for Small Businesses is designed specifically for UK-registered small businesses selling online who have been trading for a minimum of six months…
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