Rimes, a leading provider of enterprise data management and investment intelligence solutions to the global investment community, today announced three strategic partnerships with PANTA, BMLL, and Ortec Finance.

Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, announced that PT. Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BNI), one of Indonesia’s largest state-owned banks, has accelerated customer onboarding by around 25%, unifying its domestic and international trade finance operations on Finastra Trade Innovation. The centralized deployment replaced multiple legacy systems and is also delivering shorter approval cycles, and a single source of truth for reporting across BNI’s regional footprint.

Fenergo, the leading provider of digital solutions for client lifecycle management (CLM), know your customer (KYC) and transaction monitoring, today released its annual findings on global financial institution enforcement actions, which reveal that the value of penalties imposed on firms declined year-on-year by 18% but reflects significant regional divergence.  

martini.ai, a leader in AI-driven credit risk analysis, today announced a major update to its corporate credit research assistant, now allowing users to upload financial statements and receive instant, AI-generated credit insights directly within the chat. The new integration combines martini.ai’s Financials Agent with its AI-powered Research Assistant, creating the most comprehensive real-time platform for analyzing credit risk and financial health.

Noah, a global payments infrastructure provider, and NALA, a global stablecoin payments company, today announced a strategic partnership to build a new generation of cross-border payment infrastructure. Global businesses in Africa and Asia can now collect USD and pay out local currency in minutes, instead of days, bypassing a century-old banking system that costs users billions in fees. 

VelaFi, a stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure platform under Galactic Holdings, today announced the completion of its $20 million Series B financing, led by XVC and Ikuyo, with participation from Alibaba Investment, Planetree, existing shareholder BAI Capital, and other global investors. This round brings VelaFi’s total funding to over $40 million.

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.

Integral, a leading currency technology provider to the financial markets, has tripled the size of its presence at the Equinix SG1 data facility in Singapore to accommodate soaring regional demand. The company is also leveraging Equinix’s software-defined interconnection – Equinix Fabric, to establish private and direct connections to cloud services providers, as well as key partners and customers.

 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 North American marketplace.

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.