Paymentology, the global leader in next-generation card issuing and payment processing, today announced a landmark partnership with Constantinople, one of Australia’s most ambitious fintech innovators. The collaboration marks Paymentology’s official entry into the Australian market, underlining its commitment to advancing digital payments innovation across the Asia-Pacific region.

Instantly settling a restaurant bill with friends from Portugal, Spain, Italy or the Nordic countries? Soon, this will be possible. During the Web Summit 2025 conference in Lisbon, the very first test peer-to-peer (P2P) transaction involving BLIK users was presented. A transfer was sent from the Portuguese system MB WAY to a Santander Bank Polska customer whose phone number is registered with the BLIK service.

Boku, the global network for localized payment solutions, today announced the launch of its Innovation Hub in Singapore. The Hub includes a dedicated team focused on building new payment capabilities that solve merchants’ cross-border money movement challenges.

Clay Technologies (Clay), a platform that helps tech-enabled businesses set up and fund own-label lending programmes, and Pepper Advantage, a global credit management and technology company, announced the launch of Paydown.com – a mobile‑first lending platform that enables borrowers to consolidate their existing credit cards, overdrafts, and other high‑interest debt into a single, lower rate personal loan – helping them save on interest and pay down debt faster.

Cashflows, the platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments, has partnered with Boodil, a UK-based e-commerce payments technology provider, to enhance the payment experience for Shopify merchants across the UK.

As part of its European growth strategy, UK-based payments company myPOS is introducing Tap to Pay on iPhone for businesses in Spain. The move comes after the fintech successfully launched the feature in nine other European markets, including the UK, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Available within the myPOS Glass app, the feature allows merchants to accept all forms of contactless payments directly on their iPhone — including contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets — with no additional hardware required.

Standard Chartered today announced a partnership with DCS (DCS Card Centre) as the principal banking partner for DeCard, a next-generation credit card enabling seamless stablecoin spending in the real world.

The Bank of England published a consultation paper setting out its proposed regulatory regime for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins

Citi announced the expansion of Citi Token Services (CTS) with the integration of Euro transactions and an extended footprint to Dublin, Ireland

Deus X Pay, a licensed provider of stablecoin transaction solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Titan Aviation, a full-service aircraft management company, providing global aviation services headquartered in Dubai. This collaboration, which began earlier this year, enables Titan Aviation to accept cryptocurrencies for its services, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Tether (USDT), and USD Coin (USDC).

Paymentology, the global issuer processor, has won the Best Payments Service Award at the APAC Payments Excellence Awards 2025, recognising excellence in its issuer-processing platform and service model across Asia Pacific.

XTransfer, World's Leading B2B Cross-Border Trade Payment Platform and Bank SinoPac, acting through its Hong Kong Branch (hereinafter referred to as the Bank SinoPac Hong Kong Branch) are pleased to announce a comprehensive collaboration. The two parties will jointly expand international operations and provide SMEs engaging in international trade with one-stop cross-border financial solutions, including global and local collections, foreign exchange conversion and FX settlement. Coinciding with Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025, Bill Deng, Founder and CEO of XTransfer, and Lin Chia Yun, Chief Executive of Bank SinoPac Hong Kong Branch, officially signed a memorandum of understanding at the XTransfer booth.

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, today announced a collaboration with Mastercard, WebBank, and Gemini. Together they’ll explore the use of Ripple USD (RLUSD) on the XRPL, a public blockchain built for fast and secure payments, to support stablecoin settlement of fiat card transactions.

Celent has named BPC, a global leader in payment solutions, a Luminary, Celent’s highest designation, in a new research report, “Retail Digital Banking Platforms: Latin America Edition, 2025” recognizing BPC’s SmartVista Digital Banking platform for excelling in both technology and functional breadth across the region.

CredibleX and Mastercard have initiated a collaboration to issue cards to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the UAE. With Mastercard’s deep expertise and CredibleX’s seamless SME financing journeys, MSMEs will gain easy access to working capital to grow their businesses to their full potential.