Each year, November 11 culminates into the world’s largest 24-hour online shopping festival, generating more sales than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.  Chargebacks911 warns that this year’s Singles’ Day shopping surge could trigger a wave of first-party fraud and post-purchase disputes that erase billions in retail revenue across Asia-Pacific.

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, today announced the close of the previously announced investment from Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. Terms of the transaction, announced in late July, were not disclosed.

Yaspa, the award-winning Pay by Bank fintech, today announced a new partnership with Sterling Lotteries, the UK’s market-leading External Lottery Manager (ELM). Sterling has selected Yaspa as its primary open banking payments provider for prize-led fundraising, enabling faster, safer, and more efficient supporter payments across its charity lottery programmes.

Innovative fintech company, Snap Finance UK (Snap), is revolutionising embedded finance with the launch of its virtual card, a more convenient solution for customers seeking flexible ways to pay. 

The new proposition makes point-of-sale (POS) finance more accessible and manageable, offering customers instant loan access with more flexibility on how they spend and pay, and full visibility through the Snap Wallet mobile app. 

TransferMate, the leading provider of embedded B2B payments infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), has partnered with SAP, the world's leading provider of enterprise application software, to deliver enhanced cross-border payment services to businesses using SAP solutions. Through this partnership, TransferMate acts as a non-bank payments provider with an integration to SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity.

Pay3, an enterprise-focused stablecoin payments platform, today announced the launch of its Agentic Payments Platform, designed to enable AI agents to autonomously execute and optimize financial transactions using stablecoins.

Global financial technology leader FIS® has announced the launch of FIS Asset Servicing Management Suite, a comprehensive suite of automated and integrated solutions which help unlock operational efficiency across all areas of asset servicing.

The Bank of England (the Bank) has today published a consultation paper (CP) setting out its proposed regulatory regime for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins. Such stablecoins are a new type of digital money designed to maintain a stable value and could be used for retail payments and wholesale settlement in the future. This marks a significant step in preparing for a future where new forms of digital money may be widely used for payments alongside existing ones, offering valuable choice for the public.

Global payments processor and technology provider, RS2, has today announced the release of its latest whitepaper, The Rise of B2B Marketplaces and What It Means for Banks. The paper reveals that nearly half of global B2B turnover will move through online marketplaces by 2030, signalling a fundamental shift in how businesses buy, sell, and pay.