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Bank payment company GoCardless has announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP), a tool enabling developers to use their preferred Large Language Model (LLM) to ‘speak’ to GoCardless. By using natural language to communicate with the platform, merchants can get instant answers, surface payment information, and significantly reduce the time it takes to integrate GoCardless into…
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a global leader in banking technology, today announced that Bank of Beirut UK Ltd, has successfully gone live with Temenos Core Banking and Payments. This strategic transformation positions Bank of Beirut UK to expand its corporate banking operations and strengthen its role as a trusted partner for businesses and correspondent banks across the UK, Europe, Africa…
FinScan, the anti-money laundering (AML) compliance solution of Innovative Systems, Inc., is proud to announce a series of successes it has achieved over the last 12 months. Together, these accomplishments demonstrate FinScan’s accelerating momentum driven by continuous product innovation, deep customer trust, and expanding adoption and performance improvements across financial services and banking sectors. “Compliance can’t be reactive…
Quantoz Payments B.V. (Quantoz) the Netherlands headquartered payments technology company, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a partnership with Visa to become a direct Visa principal member. The agreement enables Quantoz to facilitate the issue of virtual Visa debit cards and act as a BIN-sponsor for third-party fintechs and platforms, allowing their customers…
Chargebacks911, a global leader in dispute resolution and chargeback prevention, is warning merchants and payments leaders to prepare for a surge in post-holiday disputes as Lunar New Year spending accelerates across Asia-Pacific and international eCommerce markets. The Lunar New Year begins on 17 February this year and drives one of the largest annual spending peaks…
NCR Atleos Corporation (NYSE: NATL) (“Atleos”), a leader in expanding self-service financial access for financial institutions, retailers and consumers, today announced that UnionPay cardholders can now withdraw cash at thousands of Cashzone ATMs across the UK, timed to coincide with Chinese New Year celebrations. UnionPay is one of the world’s largest card schemes with card issuance…
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, and Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) today announced a strategic partnership with the intent to develop tools to help small businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments protect themselves from today’s most pressing cyber threats without putting the brakes on innovation. Attack surface monitoring capabilities from Mastercard’s Recorded Future and RiskRecon, paired…
Backbase, the leader in AI-powered banking, announces a partnership with Plaid, a data network that serves as the analytics layer for financial services. Together they solve one of banking’s biggest challenges: data fragmentation that slows innovation and limits customer experience. Financial institutions face a common problem: Data lives in silos, legacy integrations break constantly, customer…
Robust regulation is essential, but inconsistent and duplicative verification processes risk holding back legitimate small businesses Small and medium-sized enterprises are navigating an increasingly complex compliance environment, often with fewer resources and less institutional support than larger organisations. While robust verification and regulatory oversight are essential to protect markets and prevent economic crime, the way…
Alipay announced that its AI Pay, a payment solution that enables secure and seamless payment through AI agents, exceeded 120 million transactions in the past week, as agentic commerce accelerates in China, making it the world’s first AI agentic payment service to reach this milestone. Launched in 2025, Alipay AI Pay has expanded into various…
Visa’s latest report reveals that European airline fraud losses have climbed to $77.7 million over the past year (VisaNet MIS Fraud Insights) even as overall fraud rates have declined by 2.9%. This rise has been driven by increasingly sophisticated cross-border operations, but as 99% of this fraud in the region now occurs through e-commerce, this…
TerraPay, a global money movement company, and Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a global travel technology provider, have signed a multi-year strategic agreement to expand the reach of Sabre Direct Pay and enhance payment options for travel agencies and suppliers. Under the agreement, Sabre Direct Pay will enable agencies, airlines and hotels to send instant bank transfers through TerraPay’s network,…
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