Tabby has been granted a Stored Value Facilities (SVF) licence by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), authorising the company to hold customer funds and introduce a new suite of financial products, including spending accounts, cards and money management tools.

American Express announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Hypercard (Hyper), an agentic expense management company,

payabl. has launched Click to pay with Visa, a new card payment experience designed to help merchants reduce checkout friction

MegPrime™, the universal payments platform powered by digital currency, today launched its consumer app and unveiled the Builder Partner Incentive Program, paying homebuyers up to $15,000 in rewards while their new home is under construction. The platform is the first of its kind to provide tangible benefits for the path to homeownership.

Nacha announced today that Prometeo is now a Nacha Preferred Partner for Account Validation/Open Banking.

Visa invite Fintech innovators based in Africa to apply for Cohort 6 of the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator.

Finastra today announced that MUFG has selected Global PAYplus to support ACH services in the US

Revolut Business has today announced the launch of GlobalHire integrating EoR services directly into the Revolut Business ecosystem

American Express is introducing an agentic commerce developer kit and announcing Amex Agent Purchase Protection™

Flagright has made available AI Forensics for Monitoring, a module within its AI Forensics suite that automates the collection and presentation of investigative context for transaction monitoring alerts

dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, and National Exchange Company, an Italy-based international money transfer operator serving over 5 million customers across 90+ countries worldwide, have announced a partnership to power cross-border remittance payouts across markets in Africa, APAC, and Latin America.

Aqua Global, the financial messaging expert, today announced that iFAST Global Bank selected Aqua to underpin the launch of its new Digital Personal Banking (DPB) services – enabling the start-up bank to go live with multi-currency payments from day one.

Adyen, a global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is expanding its collaboration with lastminute.com, a European leader in dynamic holiday packages, thanks to its issuing solution. Through the use of Visa-branded prepaid virtual cards, lastminute.com has optimized payouts to airlines, hotels, and other suppliers, accelerating access to funds and significantly optimizing currency exchange costs.

BlueSnap, Powered by Payroc, the global payment orchestration platform for leading B2B and B2C enterprises, has launched a direct integration with SAP’s flagship Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software SAP Cloud ERP and S/4HANA®, giving businesses a direct, cost-efficient way to manage payments worldwide - without the limitations of third-party connectors.

PayPal is bringing Pix, the instant payment method used by more than 170 million Brazilians, to SMBs