IXOPAY, the enterprise-grade global payment infrastructure platform built for the era of agentic commerce, today announced the launch of three new TokenEx tokenization packages designed to help merchants secure payment data, reduce complexity, and maintain independence across processors, markets, and payment methods.

Mastercard has joined forces with Aafaq Islamic Finance (Aafaq) to introduce a new variant under its World Elite portfolio – the Aafaq World Elite credit card. The innovative Islamic finance product has been carefully designed to deliver upgraded features that elevate customer lifestyle experiences.

Global Money Exchange Co. LLC (GMEC), Oman’s leading money exchange company, today announced the launch of Global Pay, its new mobile application powered by Comviva’s mobiquity® Pay platform. This launch aligns with Oman’s national digital transformation vision and reinforces GMEC’s commitment to delivering innovative, secure, and inclusive digital financial solutions for daily life. For this initiative, GMEC has partnered with Comviva, a global leader in digital transformation solutions. Comviva is a subsidiary of Tech Mahindra and a member of the Mahindra Group.

Mastercard has joined forces with Aafaq Islamic Finance (Aafaq) to introduce a new variant under its World Elite portfolio – the Aafaq World Elite credit card. The innovative Islamic finance product has been carefully designed to deliver upgraded features that elevate customer lifestyle experiences.

Global Money Exchange Co. LLC (GMEC), Oman’s leading money exchange company, today announced the launch of Global Pay, its new mobile application powered by Comviva’s mobiquity® Pay platform. This launch aligns with Oman’s national digital transformation vision and reinforces GMEC’s commitment to delivering innovative, secure, and inclusive digital financial solutions for daily life. For this initiative, GMEC has partnered with Comviva, a global leader in digital transformation solutions. Comviva is a subsidiary of Tech Mahindra and a member of the Mahindra Group.

AMLYZE, a leading RegTech company and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, announces its partnership with Vinted Pay, the payments subsidiary of the European online marketplace for second-hand items, Vinted. As Vinted gradually expands the use of Vinted Pay across its markets, AMLYZE’s technology supports a compliant and secure rollout.

Agentic commerce is accelerating rapidly, reshaping how consumers discover, decide, and buy products and services online. Industry leaders forecast that a significant share of digital commerce will soon be agent-assisted: McKinsey projects that by 2030, agentic commerce could see between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in global retail value. As agentic commerce evolves, it faces a key challenge: securely integrating AI with complex payment systems simply.

Emburse, the company defining Expense Intelligence through AI-powered travel and spend orchestration, today announced the launch of Invoice Tax Validation, a new capability that helps finance teams more easily comply with emerging e-invoice and Continuous Transaction Control requirements. The new capability underlines Emburse’s position as strategic, AI-powered infrastructure for CFOs seeking to proactively control and optimize spend across the enterprise.

NPCI BHIM Services Limited (NBSL), has partnered with Canara Bank to enable UPI-based digital payments on the bank’s payment application, Canara ai1Pe, strengthening secure and scalable payment access for Canara Bank customers and non-customers. The partnership uses BHIM’s bank plugin capabilities to support UPI services on Canara Bank’s app, enabling faster adoption of new UPI features while ensuring compliance, reliability, and system scalability.

This week ASK Global Solutions, a global specialist payments provider for the gaming, leisure and attractions sectors, will be exhibiting at EAG Expo in London’s Excel from 13th - 15th January, showcasing a variety of smart solutions designed to make ticketing and purchases faster, simpler and more secure across a wide range of venues.

Ingenico, a global leader in payment acceptance solutions, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. , a trusted global technology leader, and Talus, a fintech provider of integrated payments technology, have partnered to bring a modern mobile business operating solution to the UK and global marketplaces. With Ingenico SoftPOS tap-to-pay capabilities, the Talus mobile app transforms NFC-compatible Samsung mobile devices into payments terminals. No dedicated payments hardware is required.

GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has closed the previously announced sale of Worldpay (the "Company"), a global leader in merchant acquiring and payments processing, to Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) as part of a transformative three-way transaction. The sale of Worldpay represents one of the largest strategic sales in the history of the private equity industry.

Paysecure, the cutting-edge payment orchestration company, has announced a significant uplift in merchant partners and a succession of new senior hires in December to support a substantial uplift in demand. The company continues to rapidly scale as the market appetite for payment orchestration solutions heats up, particularly in the global iGaming sector.

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services, strengthens its long-term partnership with PSA Payment Services Austria GmbH (PSA), the key player in the development of full service payment solutions in Austria. Worldline will support PSA in upgrading to a next-generation payments platform, delivering enhanced scalability, resilience, security, and future-ready capabilities aligned with European standards.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, today announced the launch of Unknown Shopper from Fiserv, a new analytics capability designed to help merchants and their marketing partners better understand in-store customer behavior and build actionable customer segments from card-present transactions.