Liberis, a global embedded finance platform, has partnered with Fincompare, Germany’s largest small business broker marketplace, to bring its revenue-based financing solution to over 25,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the country.

Recharge, the European leader in prepaid payments, has acquired Giftcloud Limited from Groupon, Inc. marking a strategic and accelerated expansion into the fast-growing B2B rewards space.

Veriff, a global identity verification platform, has seen verification volumes grow by 335% in the past year. The company continues to report more than 80% year-over-year profitable revenue growth, as businesses across industries battle sophisticated online fraud. To support this global market demand, Veriff appointed former Twilio and Checkout.com CTO Ott Kaukver to its Board of Directors.

Saxo, the leader in online trading and investment, today announces the launch of a new Flexible Investment and Savings Account (ISA). This follows a 591% surge in demand for its Stocks and Shares ISA in January and February 2025, compared to the same period last year, with new clients eager to maximise their ISA allowance at market-leading prices.

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications, today announced that Mediterranean Bank, a provider of retail and corporate banking services in Libya, has selected its core banking solution, Finastra Essence, to deliver advanced digital banking services to its customers. The next-generation solution, which comprehensively covers conventional and Islamic banking requirements, will enable the bank to streamline core processes while offering personalized services and robust customer support.

PayPal, a global digital payments and commerce platform, today announced a strategic partnership with TerraPay, a leading global money movement company, to enable real-time fund transfers for PayPal customers across the Middle East and Africa. This partnership aims to drive economic growth by making cross-border transactions faster, easy to use and more accessible by connecting banks, mobile wallets, and financial institutions.

Mollie, one of Europe’s fastest-growing financial service providers, has enabled Tap to Pay on iPhone for its Irish customers. This allows businesses of all sizes to use the Mollie app on iPhone to accept contactless payments without the need to purchase or manage additional hardware.

Leading UK fintech, Marshmallow, today announces that it has raised $90 million worth of funding from Portage, BlackRock and Columbia Lake Partners. The raise comes three years after the business’ Series B, in which time, it has almost doubled its valuation to just over $2 billion. 

South Africa-based payments infrastructure company Stitch has announced a $55 million Series B funding round led by QED Investors, enabling the fast-growing team to deepen and expand its in-person payments offering, move into the acquiring space and further bolster its online payments suite, to better serve enterprise merchants across all payments needs. This round brings its total funding to $107 million in four years.