PSQ Holdings, Inc. proudly announced today a groundbreaking partnership with IDX Advisors to launch cryptocurrency Treasury as a Service (“TaaS”) for businesses across the PublicSquare ecosystem. By combining PublicSquare’s significant distribution power with IDX’s industry-leading crypto technology, this collaboration empowers merchants to seamlessly integrate cryptocurrencies and stablecoins into their operations, while unlocking custody, trading, and yield-generating digital assets.

Klarna, the global digital bank and payments provider, today announced that over a million Americans have signed up to its debit-first Klarna Card in just 11 weeks, showing that today's shopper demands payments options that are simple, transparent, and on their terms.

VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, has announced the appointment of Jonsi Stefansson as General Manager of Cloud Solutions to lead the company’s hyperscale cloud strategy. Stefansson, founder and CEO of Red Stapler, brings decades of experience developing strategic partnerships with infrastructure providers and enabling hyperscalers to deliver differentiated, large-scale services.

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments provider, today announced strong progress on its growth plan for 2025, reaffirming its commitment to achieve full-year profitability. In the first half of the year, the company has made significant progress, and is on track to exceed its target of 30% net revenue growth in its core business. Furthermore, Checkout.com is set to process more than $300bn in total eCommerce payment volume in 2025.

Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, today officially launched AI SHIELD to protect AI systems from threats and vulnerabilities, a proactive toolkit to help AI-powered financial services stay secure and compliant as AI rapidly transforms global finance.

Automat-it, an AWS Premier Partner specializing in DevOps, FinOps, Generative AI and cloud infrastructure for startups, today announced the expansion of its strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). As part of this enhanced collaboration, Automat-it and AWS have signed an agreement exceeding $1.4 Billion over the next four years to develop and provide innovative solutions to startup customers in Europe and North America. 

HPS, a global provider of payment solutions, today announced the signing of two major agreements with leading Asian financial institutions ranked among the Top 100 and Top 200 banks worldwide.

Each contract is valued in the tens of millions of US dollars and will be deployed in an On-Premise model, enabling HPS to recognize significant revenue and EBITDA contributions as early as 2025. Starting 2H 2025.

DBS, Franklin Templeton and Ripple are partnering to provide accredited and institutional investors with innovative trading and lending solutions, powered by tokenised money market funds[1] on the XRP ledger blockchain and stablecoins such as Ripple USD (RLUSD).

Today, Citi and Dandelion, a Euronet Worldwide, Inc. company, announced a collaboration to enhance cross-border payments, powered by the integration of Citi’s cross-border payments solution WorldLink® Payment Services and Dandelion’s expansive digital wallet network. The collaboration empowers Citi’s institutional clients to deliver near-instant, full-value payments into digital wallets across the globe, with near 24/7 availability.

The Capgemini Research Institute’s World Payments Report 2026, published today, highlights mounting pressure on banks to modernize their merchant services in the face of competition from more agile PayTechs, those firms that have been created specifically to provide technology solutions that facilitate payments. Now in its 21st edition, the report finds that banks face an uphill battle, with satisfaction levels particularly low among small (15%) and mid-sized merchants (22%).