Loqbox, the UK’s leading credit-building business, announces two strategic new hires from tech giants TikTok and Sage to bolster its Partnerships team and power its next phase of growth.

Tuum, the leading next-generation core banking provider, today announced the launch of its foundational Islamic Banking and Finance solutions, marking a significant milestone towards delivering comprehensive, Sharia-compliant financial services. This initiative focuses on the key principles of Islamic banking, laying the groundwork for a full end-to-end platform designed to support the needs of Islamic financial institutions.

Over the past year Wise Platform, Wise’s global payments infrastructure for banks, financial institutions and larger enterprises, has further enhanced its product suite for partners and significantly expanded its global regulatory footprint. As a result, Wise Platform is helping more partners offer faster, cheaper, secure, and convenient international payments directly from their own platforms.

Real-time payments are forecast to generate $285.8 billion of additional global GDP growth and create more than 167 million new bank account holders by 2028, according to a new report published by ACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, in collaboration with The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).

Mastercard introduced a new product innovation, Mastercard Move Commercial Payments, that will enable banks to facilitate near real-time, predictable and transparent commercial cross-border payments.

Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announced its proprietary Direct Global Network now provides banks with access to over 3 billion mobile wallets around the world via their existing Swift connectivity.

Kroll, the leading independent provider of global risk and financial advisory solutions, announced today that Katherine Keefe will be joining Kroll as Managing Director and Global Cyber Insurance Industry Lead for Kroll's cyber insurance capabilities worldwide.

Fime is proud to announce that it is the first to offer testing services in line with the EMV®* C-8 Contactless Kernel Specification**. This new approach is set to significantly streamline the development, testing and launch of new contactless payment terminals for vendors, merchants and solution providers.

Global financial technology leader FIS® and Fulham Football Club have together announced a new partnership, unveiling the state-of-the-art Markers, presented by FIS, an innovation space and technology hub at the new Fulham Pier.

PayMate, a leading digital B2B payments platform, launched its innovative Business Payments App at Selangor Smart City & Digital Economy Conference (SDEC) 2024 SDEC 2024, a key event organized by the Selangor Information Technology & Digital Economy Corporation (Sidec). This partnership highlights PayMate’s collaboration with SIDEC, a subsidiary of Invest Selangor Berhad, to support Malaysian SMEs in optimizing working capital and driving economic growth.