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Mollie and GoCardless Combine to Create Europe’s Leading Payments and Financial Services Partner

Mollie

“Mollie announced it has completed its acquisition of GoCardless. The two companies are trusted by more than 350,000 businesses across 30+ markets. At its heart is a comprehensive payment suite that unites Mollie’s best-in-class card and local payment methods with GoCardless’s leading Pay by Bank solution, available across 38 countries, empowering businesses to get paid, […]

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Socure Acquires Agentic Operations Platform Fravity

Socure

“Socure, a leading trust infrastructure for global identity and risk intelligence, announced a strategic growth investment that values the company at $5.2 billion, alongside the acquisition of Fravity, an agentic platform that automates fraud, risk, and compliance operations. The acquisition of Fravity adds a native first-party agent development platform and agentic operations layer to RiskOS®, […]

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Global

PhonePe Brings UPI Payment Option to Keypad-Based Feature Mobiles in India

Deccan Herald

“Leading digital payments and financial services provider PhonePe launched the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) payment option to feature phones in India. Called PhonePe UPI 123Pay, the new feature enhances the user experience for keypad users to make payments without the need for internet.”

Global

Collctiv Partners with love2shop for Group Savings Platform

Business Cloud

“Love2shop, the UK’s market-leading multi-brand gift card retailer, announced a new partnership with group payments pioneer Collctiv to launch its latest venture, Love2save. Love2save is a new savings platform designed to simplify how UK consumers individually save money or pool money for shared collections. Once savings goals are achieved, funds can be instantly loaded onto […]

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Global

DBS Hong Kong Partners with Visa, Preface to Empower Customers with AI Readiness Skills, for the Future of Intelligent Payments

Macau Business

“DBS Bank Limited announced a partnership with Preface, a leading tech-enablement company, to help customers build practical AI readiness for everyday life and work. Starting September 2026, DBS Credit Cardholders subscribing to the designated AI tools, can get a free chance to access an exclusive AI Experience Workshop via the “DBS Credit Cards Subscription Bonus […]

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Bank of America Launches AI Tracker Covering Model Intelligence and Costs

Crypto Briefing

“Wall Street is watching the AI arms race and Bank of America just built a scoreboard. The bank has launched an internal AI model tracker that evaluates leading large language models across two dimensions that actually matter to enterprise buyers: how smart the model is, and how much it costs to run. Bank of America […]

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Matera Releases Open Source X9.150 Payment QR Code Implementation to Accelerate Industry Adoption

Yahoo Finance

“Matera, a leading provider of modern banking technology, today announced the release of an open source implementation of the ANSI X9.150 Merchant-Presented Payment QR Code Standard, making it easier than ever for financial institutions, fintechs and developers to begin working with the new interoperability standard.”

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Visa’s $2.4 Billion BioCatch Acquisition Signals the Next Wave of AI-Powered Payments

International Supermarket News

“For Visa, the investment represents a strategic move to strengthen the security of digital transactions at a time when online fraud is becoming increasingly sophisticated. BioCatch has become one of the industry’s leading providers of behavioural biometrics, a technology that analyses how users interact with their devices. The platform studies hundreds of behavioural indicators such […]

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Visa to Acquire BioCatch

Business Wire

“Visa announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BioCatch, a leading provider of behavioral-first, multi-signal fraud intelligence, from funds advised by Permira and other shareholders for $2.4 billion in cash. The acquisition of BioCatch complements Visa’s existing cyber, fraud, risk and security solutions and is expected to help clients better protect themselves and […]

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Worldline Wraps up the Sale of Its Indian Payments Operations

MarketScreener

Worldline announced the completion of the sale of its payments operations in India to BillDesk, a leading Indian payments player, for an enterprise value of about €37m and an equity value of about €60m. In parallel, Worldline will enter into a long-term technology and software agreement, under which BillDesk will continue to use its advanced […]

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Lloyds Deploys Agentic AI to Fight Cyber Fraud in Real Time [Video]

Cyber Magazine

“Lloyds Banking Group is expanding its deployment of AI to address one of the most persistent and costly challenges – fraud. Over £1bn (US$1.3bn) of fraud was prevented in 2025 by Lloyds. Since 2023, the banking giant invested £100m (US$133.8m) in new fraud technology, positioning the organisation at the leading edge of AI-driven crime prevention. The core […]

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BNY Launches Global Digital Transfer Agency Capabilities, Extending Leadership in Fund Servicing to Digital Market

PR Newswire

“BNY announced the launch of its new Digital Transfer Agency (TA) capabilities, meeting an expanded set of client needs by extending the firm’s leading TA services to support digitally native funds. BNY Digital TA modernizes BNY’s fund servicing capabilities to support both digital and traditional asset funds in an end-to-end lifecycle across multiple jurisdictions and […]

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Global

TerraPay Partners with HDBank to Power Real-Time International Payments from Vietnam

TerraPay

“TerraPay has partnered with HDBank, one of Vietnam’s leading commercial banks known for its strong retail and SME franchise, to enable real-time outbound international payments from Vietnam to bank accounts and mobile wallets worldwide. Vietnam’s outward remittance market was valued at approximately US$275 million in 2025, and is forecast to grow to US$346 million by 2030 — […]

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ACI Worldwide and dLocal Bring Latin America's Leading Local Payment Methods to Global Merchants

Business Wire

“ACI Worldwide and dLocal announced a strategic partnership that gives global merchants immediate and seamless access to leading local payment methods in Brazil and Mexico through the ACI Payments Orchestration Platform, with Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru planned for future rollout. Merchants can onboard and begin processing transactions today using six local payment methods across the […]

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Billtrust Is First AR Platform to Connect Live Invoice-to-Cash Intelligence to Claude and Microsoft Copilot

Billtrust

“Billtrust, the B2B Cash Generation Platform, announced the launch of the Billtrust MCP Server, becoming the first AR platform to directly connect live invoice-to-cash intelligence to leading AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Finance teams can now query their live invoice-to-cash data directly from inside Microsoft Copilot™ and Claude™, using plain language to get […]

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