Pix at Five Years: How Brazil Built One of the World’s Most Advanced Public Payments Infrastructures – and Why Other Countries Are Paying Attention
- 7 hours 57 min ago
- Payments
A new report released today by financial innovation consultancy W Fintechs examines how Brazil’s Pix became one of the world’s most advanced public payments infrastructures, and why its design is now shaping global debate on the future of payments.
Moonrise by Lunar Launches Instant Payments in Norway via NICS Real
- 8 hours 17 min ago
- Payments
Moonrise by Lunar today announced the launch of Instant Payments in Norway, enabling international fintechs, banks and payment providers easy, API-based access to the Norwegian real-time clearing infrastructure, NICS Real.
Ecommpay Announces Strategic Partnership with Payrails To Revolutionise Global Payments for Enterprises
- 9 hours 47 min ago
- Payments
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.
American Express Launches Flexible Payment Option to Help Support Small Business Cashflow
- 11 hours 57 min ago
- Payments
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.
Corpay Announces Agreement to Sell Non-Core Vehicle Payments Asset
- 1 day 6 hours ago
- Payments
Corpay, Inc., the corporate payments company, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell PayByPhone, a mobile parking payments business, to Lightyear Capital. “We’ve agreed to terms to divest our PayByPhone business, and hope that PBP will prosper under Lightyear’s ownership,” said Ron Clarke, Chairman and CEO of Corpay. “The transaction is another step to simplify our portfolio, and speed our rotation to more corporate payments... more
Exactly.com and GP Solutions Join Forces to Expand Fair and Transparent Access to Fintech Solutions across the Travel Industry
- 1 day 7 hours ago
- Payments
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.
Vault Selects Thredd as Strategic Issuer Processing Partner for Australia and UK Expansion
- 1 day 9 hours ago
- Payments
Thredd, the leading next-generation global payments processor, today announced that Vault Payment Solutions, Australia’s leading provider of secure card payments, has selected Thredd to power its expansion into new regions on Mastercard’s global network. The partnership will support Vault’s launch of new prepaid, debit, and private-label card programmes in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Volante Technologies Named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Banking Payment Hub Platforms
- 1 day 10 hours ago
- Payments
Volante Technologies, the global leader in Payments as a Service (PaaS), today announced its recognition as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Banking Payment Hub Platforms, which evaluates vendors based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. In Volante’s view, Gartner positioned them as a Leader based on their capacity to support enterprise-scale payment processing in banks and financial institutions across multiple... more
BBVA Joins Qivalis Banking Consortium to Advance Launch of Regulated Euro Stablecoin
- 1 day 12 hours ago
- Cryptocurrencies
BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) has officially joined Qivalis, a consortium of leading European banks working to establish a MiCAR-compliant euro-stablecoin issuer, currently progressing towards authorisation by the Dutch Central Bank (DNB). The consortium now comprises twelve European banks: Banca Sella, BBVA, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank, Danske Bank, DekaBank, DZ BANK, ING, KBC, Raiffeisen Bank International, SEB, and UniCredit.
Visa Acceptance Platform Now Supports Tap to Pay on iPhone, Boosting Contactless Acceptance for Merchants
- 1 day 12 hours ago
- Payments
Visa, a world leader in payments, has introduced a software development kit (SDK) that enables Visa Acceptance Platform clients to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone.
Bitso Business Announces Second Edition of “The Push,” the First Global Stablecoin Startup Accelerator
- 1 day 12 hours ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Building on the success of its inaugural cohort, Bitso Business, the B2B arm of Bitso that provides infrastructure for efficient and transparent local and cross-border payments, today announced the launch of the second edition of The Push, its global stablecoin-focused startup accelerator designed to support founders building the next generation of financial infrastructure for Latin America.
dLocal Partners with DHL Express Brazil To Automate Pix Payments and Accelerate Parcel Release
- 1 day 12 hours ago
- Payments
dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has partnered with DHL Express Brazil, the leading international express shipping provide
Visa Direct and UnionPay International Will Extend Global Money Movement Network to Billions of UnionPay Cards in Chinese Mainland
- 1 day 12 hours ago
- Payments
At Web Summit Qatar, Visa announced an agreement with UnionPay International (UPI) to enable cross-border money movement into the Chinese mainland through Visa Direct. Once fully rolled out, clients will be able to send cross-border remittances and business-to-consumer payouts to more than 95 percent of UnionPay debit cardholders in the Chinese mainland, through a single connection.
Retail Stablecoin Use Surges 10x in 2025
- 1 day 13 hours ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Orbital, a global payment orchestration platform across stablecoins and traditional payment rails, today released its Q4 Stablecoin Retail Payments Index Snapshot. With data sourced from Artemis, the Index reveals that stablecoin use for smaller, retail-sized transactions under $10,000, has increased more than tenfold across 2025.
Paysafe Enables FuturePay’s Latin American Expansion with Local Payments Suite
- 2 days 9 hours ago
- Payments
Paysafe, a leading payments platform, has partnered with FuturePay Global Limited, a provider of cross-border payment solutions established in 2016.
