"Stripe announced the upcoming launch of Stripe Capital in Australia. The announcement was made at Stripe Tour Sydney, where the company showcased products leveraging AI and stablecoins, and reported that it's now supporting over one million users across Australia and...
Major Partnership Achieved: LianLian Global Joins Forces with UnionPay International to Facilitate Efficient Cross-Border Fund Transfers
"On September 9, LianLian Global and UnionPay International announced a strategic partnership to enhance cross-border money movement solutions. The collaboration brings together a leading global digital payments provider and an international card network, combining...
BNPL Tracker: 41% of Users Late in Past Year, More Using Loans for Groceries
"More than 4 in 10 (41%) users of buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans say they paid late on one of them in the past year, up from 34% just a year ago, according to a LendingTree survey. That’s just one of several troubling findings from our survey, which asked people...
Mastercard Simplifies Business Payments With Oracle Integration
"Mastercard has announced the local launch of a new embedded virtual card payment capability, with Westpac becoming the first commercial issuer in Australia to activate the solution for clients using Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The...
Ripple Expands Footprint into Spain Through New Agreement with BBVA
Ripple announced an agreement with BBVA to provide its digital asset custody technology to the Spanish bank. The move supports BBVA’s recent announcement of its new crypto-asset trading and custody service for bitcoin and ether, which it has made available to retail...
Taco Bell on Layaway? Doordash Introduces Installment Payment Options
"You can now buy Taco Bell and more on layaway, thanks to DoorDash’s latest partnership. The San Francisco-based food delivery service announced Thursday that it is teaming up with Klarna, the Swedish buy-now, pay-later company. The collaboration will allow DoorDash...
ACH Operations #3-2025-Automating the Request for Proof of Audit
"For over a decade, Nacha has been contacting financial institutions to request proof of an ACH Rules compliance audit of the financial institution and, if applicable, its Third-Party Senders, in accordance with Article One, Subsection 1.2.2 (Audits of Rules...
EBANX Launches Integration with Capitec Pay, enabling Open Banking for Cross-Border e-commerce in South Africa
"EBANX has announced the integration of Capitec Pay, South Africa's leading open banking-based, real-time payment method. This move marks EBANX's first open banking solution outside Brazil and makes EBANX one of the first global Payment Service Providers (PSPs)...
Zelle Owner Early Warning Services Exploring Stablecoin for Retail Bank Customers
"Early Warning Services, the company behind the Zelle payments network, plans to explore issuing its own stablecoin for retail bank customers in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. This undertaking, which would likely start with a...
Alipay, Luckin Coffee Launch Conversational AI Payments in China
"Alipay has launched an AI agent payment feature now available on Luckin Coffee’s app and Alipay mini-program in China. The update allows users to order and pay for coffee through a single conversation with Luckin’s AI assistant, Lucky AI, without needing to switch to...