Stripe, the programmable financial services company, today showcased over 50 upgrades to accelerate global growth for Asian businesses. The announcements were shared at Stripe Tour Singapore 2025, where over 1,300 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and developers gathered for the company’s annual conference in Southeast Asia.

8am, formerly AffiniPay, announced the launch of its new brand reflecting the company’s evolution

From January to June 2025, BLIK users completed nearly 1.4 bn transactions in total. This represents an increase of 24 percent compared to the same period last year. The second quarter alone was record-breaking – for the first time in the system’s history, the number of transactions exceeded 700 m. Currently, the fastest growth is observed in in-store BLIK payments, where contactless transactions already account for almost half of all operations carried out with BLIK in this channel. Double-digit growth also continues in e-commerce and in BLIK P2P transfers. At the end of June this year, 19.4 m users were regularly using BLIK.

Whish Money has collaborated with Mastercard to enable inbound and outbound remittance flows in Lebanon

DailyPa has partnered with Wizardline, to offer On-Demand Pay to Domino’s Pizza franchisee employees nationwide

Artea Bank has selected BPC SmartVista to modernize its card-issuing infrastructure.

Deluxe (NYSE: DLX), a trusted Payments and Data company, has announced the election of Michelle T. Collins to its Board of Directors.

Club Brugge KV has announced a new five-year partnership with Neo as its Official Foreign Currency Exchange Partner

Coda, a global leader in digital content monetization headquartered in Singapore, has completed its acquisition of Recharge, Europe’s leading prepaid payments platform, headquartered in Amsterdam. This follows Coda’s announcement last month on the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Recharge.

“The UK’s Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) has left fintechs and other companies in the transaction processing industry on the edge of their seat as they recently teased that not only would their official strategy for a “world-leading payments ecosystem” be made public this autumn, but that their Payments Forward Plan would be published by the end of the year. These initiatives, set forth under the sight of the National Payment Vision, will lay the blueprint for a true overhaul of the U.K. payments ecosystem that will champion “innovation, competition and security.”

Nu Mexico registered an increase of over 50% in its customer base in the last 12 months, and is already the third largest financial institution in terms of credit cards issued and the sixth largest in terms of customers, considering banks and SOFIPOs in the country.

Exclusive data revealed today by EBANX, a global technology company specializing in payment services for emerging markets, shows that Latin America’s Software as a Service (SaaS) market is projected to reach USD 46 billion in 2027, more than doubling from USD 22 billion in 2023, according to Payments and Commerce Market Intelligence data sourced by EBANX.

Lithic announced its integration with Visa ALM over VCPE API, offering fintech partners faster delivery of premium card programs and card economics

Stripe showcased stablecoin and AI product updates at Stripe Tour Singapore 2025 to accelerate global growth for Asian businesses

SoFi announced its upcoming international money transfer service by partnering with Lightspark