Checkout.com announced a strategic partnership with international travel service provider Trip.com to by enable high performing payments and an effortless booking experience

Adyen announced the expansion of its longstanding partnership with Cathay Pacific with Adyen now providing direct acquiring services for the airline

Klarna and H&M announce the expansion of their partnership in Romania and Hungary as a strategic step that strengthens the long-standing global collaboration

Checkout.com was also cited for growing its US business after receiving a license under the US merchant acquirer limited purpose bank charter

American Express and Kwik Fit have signed a new agreement meaning Amex is now accepted as a payment method

Adyen has partnered with Starbucks Coffee Company to transform its payment infrastructure in Europe and the UK.

Rising fraud is putting significant pressure on UK retailers, with half of businesses at risk of closing or scaling back

Airwallex will now power all hospitality payments at Emirates Stadium as its advanced Payments Acceptance (PA) software is integrated into Arsenal’s operations

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, today announced the launch of its Agentic Product Protocol, a new open standard that makes every product on the internet easily discoverable and understandable by AI agents.

Antom, a leading merchant payment and digitisation services provider under Ant International, today announced major upgrades to Antom Copilot, its industry-first AI agent designed for merchant payment and operations management.

Liquid Group, a Singapore-based fintech company specializing in cross-border digital payments, and TerraPay, a leader in simplifying global money movement headquartered in London, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore interoperability between RoamQR™, Liquid Group’s interoperable QR payment network, and TerraPay’s global payment infrastructure.

Aevi and LEGI.ONE LTD have successfully installed the first payment terminals for LEGI.ONE’s customer OKO Hladík

Google and PayPal today announced a multiyear strategic partnership focused on advancing several commerce solutions. The collaboration will deliver innovative solutions that transform how businesses and consumers transact across platforms and devices. Combining their expertise and scale, the companies aim to deliver frictionless digital commerce experiences and set a new standard for commerce ecosystem innovation. 

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Arcade.dev, the first unified agent action platform that makes AI agents production-ready, and Lithic, the trusted card processing platform engineered for performance and built to last, today announced a partnership to develop the world’s first AI e-commerce application capable of making secure, authenticated payments. The partnership will launch the world’s first shopping agents that can search, compare products, and check out in one streamlined process.