Alchemy Pay, the world-leading fiat-crypto payment gateway, is proud to announce its collaboration with Sumsub, a global leader in verification, to integrate its leading Travel Rule solution across Alchemy Pay’s entire product suite. This integration marks a significant milestone in reinforcing regulatory compliance, transactional transparency, and user security, further aligning Alchemy Pay with the vision of building a secure, compliant, and accessible bridge between traditional finance and the crypto economy.

Heartland businesses are enjoying bigger gains from the recently launched DBS/POSB PayLah! SG60 cashback initiative, as more customers are choosing to scan to pay at heartland shops, wet markets and hawker stalls. Participating merchants have seen their average Saturday earnings increase by 50% since the bank brought back the popular cashback rewards programme last month – surpassing the 40% growth recorded during a similar cashback campaign last year. This surge reflects sustained customer demand for digital payment options and growing support for neighbourhood merchants.

Noda, the open banking platform redefining how businesses get paid, has expanded its reach to over 2,000 banks across 28 countries — enabling merchants to connect with more than 100 million bank account holders in Europe.

Over half (54%) of the shoppers said contactless is their favourite way to pay in-store — up 14% since 2023.

Over half (54%) of the shoppers said contactless is their favourite way to pay in-store — up 14% since 2023.

Privalgo, has received a licence from DNB as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI)

Trust Retail, part of the Trust Payments Group, has announced the successful implementation of Pennies micro-donation technology at John Bell & Croyden, the prestigious London pharmacy dating back to 1798 and a Royal Warrant holder since 1958.

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, today announced that the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning has selected it as payments provider for food and beverage, retail and ticketing, including for all events at AMALIE Arena in Tampa, Florida. This is the fourth National Hockey League team partnership for Global Payments.

EMVCo, the global technical body for the payments industry, has released a draft document describing an interoperable open payment solution for electric vehicle (EV) charging. All interested stakeholders are encouraged to provide their feedback on the draft by Wednesday 03 September.

Bluechain, the B2B payment orchestration platform powering the next generation of business payments, today announced a partnership with Visa to modernise how UK businesses manage B2B payments. This collaboration delivers real-time visibility, end-to-end control, and universal payment flexibility through Bluechain’s intelligent network.

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today unveils new data showing that consumers in Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Africa are rapidly embracing digital identity wallets and biometric verification, closely followed by Brazil and New Zealand. Meanwhile, adoption remains sluggish across Europe, including the UK, and North America.

Yaspa, a hyper-growth UK fintech specialising in payments and identity, has announced the opening of a new tech hub in Leeds.

Airwallex, a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, today announced it has received its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and will soon launch Airwallex Yield to enable European businesses to generate returns on idle funds.

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, today announces its first channel partnership with leading ethical FinTech, Algbra, to provide its trusted technology and services as part of Algbra Labs’ Fintech-As-A-Service offering. Through the partnership, Algbra will be able to offer ClearBank’s agency banking, faster payments and virtual account services to customers on its platform, helping them to expand their reach without having to reinvent backend infrastructure. The new solution will be built into Algbra’s existing offer, providing end-to-end service capabilities to customers that will differentiate it from competitors.

Shory announced a strategic partnership with Wio Bank to deliver a faster and more accessible way for customers to obtain car insurance