Lüt, a new financial ecosystem built for accessibility, reliability and growth with a first-of-its-kind closed-loop digital payments platform for cannabis and other high-risk industries, has announced its new partnership with leading financial services provider Safe Harbor to address one of the cannabis industry’s most persistent challenges: compliant and reliable payments. Through the collaboration, Lüt becomes a Safe Harbor Advantage Partner in closed-loop payment, expanding access to compliant, guaranteed-funds digital payments for cannabis and specialty merchants.

Chargebase, a new chargeback-prevention platform built for high-growth e-commerce and SaaS businesses, today announces its official launch. Designed to solve an expensive and existential problem for merchants – chargebacks – Chargebase gives companies instant access to Verifi and Ethoca alerts in a single, easy-to-use platform with automated workflows and transparent pricing.

The funding from Goldman Sachs will enable Clara to scale its payment solutions including corporate credit cards, bill pay, and cross-border transactions

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Inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay has entered a new strategic partnership with Payrails, the financial operating system for global enterprises. Designed to empower large e-commerce businesses to significantly optimise their payments, the collaboration aims to directly impact top-line growth and bottom-line costs. By leveraging the combined strengths of both platforms, enterprises can aim to expect improved acceptance and conversion rates, reduced costs and accelerated speed to market for their services.

By connecting directly to NICS Real, Moonrise enables partners to send and receive Norwegian Krone (NOK) in real time, 24/7/365. With this launch, Moonrise becomes the only provider offering a unified, API-first entry point to all three Nordic instant payment rails, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, through a single integration.

Volt, the real-time, rail-agnostic money movement platform, today announces the full launch of its flagship cash management products, leveraging its e-money licences: Volt Accounts, Named Accounts, and Virtual IBANs.

American Express today announces the introduction of Flexible Payment Option (FPO), a feature designed to offer businesses greater ability to manage and control their cashflow needs with an instant line of credit.

In the countdown to this Sunday’s Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, 51% of fans who’ll follow the football game in U.S. states and Canadian provinces with regulated sports-betting plan to bet online, according to research issued today by leading payments platform Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE). The company’s All the Ways Players Pay: Super Bowl report also indicates strong interest in legal betting from fans in this year’s host state, if California were to regulate sports-betting, as well as in Texas and Canada’s Alberta.

Lightyear Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with over US$7 billion in assets under management, has signed an agreement to acquire PayByPhone, a global leader in mobile parking payments, from Corpay (NYSE: CPAY).

Payment provider Exactly.com has partnered with GP Solutions, a leading travel software development company, in a strategic move to reinforce its position in the tourism segment. The partnership is rooted in a shared mission: to create equal conditions for travel businesses of any size, offering fair fees, human-driven support, and proactive performance analysis that helps companies scale without scaling costs. As a result, GP Solutions’ clients now gain direct access to Exactly.com’s modern payment infrastructure and expertise.

dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has partnered with Amway, the world’s largest direct selling company, to deliver reliable, locally optimized online payments across Latin America.

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today announced that it has launched Fresha Capital, in partnership with Fresha, the world's leading marketplace platform for beauty, wellness, and selfcare. The offering is now live in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden, with over £4 million in loans issued to date. This launch strengthens Fresha's financial product ecosystem, enabling small and medium businesses (SMBs) across the platform to access working capital quickly and seamlessly to fund their growth.

Conferma, the leading provider of virtual payment technology for corporate travel, has announced a new strategic partnership with Mesh, a recognised innovator in travel and expense management solutions.

dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has partnered with DHL Express Brazil, the leading international express shipping provider in the country, to power automated Pix payments for its local operations.