Cytora, the digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Altitude Intelligence, a provider of specialized intelligence-as-a-service capabilities. This collaboration integrates Altitude Intelligence’s advanced geospatial (GEOINT) and multi-source fusion data directly into the Cytora platform, allowing commercial insurers to automatically enrich submissions with granular climate and location-based insights at the point of underwriting.

Visa, a world leader in payments, has introduced a software development kit (SDK) that enables Visa Acceptance Platform clients to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone.

 A new report by Islamic home finance fintech firm Offa, based on a national survey of 3,000 people, reveals that British Muslims are suffering a “financial faith penalty”, with 8 in 10 saying their home finance choices are restricted due to their faith.

Backbase, the global leader in AI-powered banking technology, announces the appointment of Jodi Slomp as Chief People Officer (CPO). Slomp brings deep people and culture leadership experience from high-growth technology companies. She joins Backbase at a pivotal moment as the company accelerates its mission to put bankers in the driver's seat of the AI revolution.

One Inc, the leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, today announced new AI-driven capabilities designed to accelerate how insurance carriers integrate with One Inc and securely analyze and manage payments data. Central to this innovation is Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open protocol that leverages a client’s own corporate LLM-based AI assistants, including Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, and others, to speed integration and elevate service standards.

Building on the success of its inaugural cohort, Bitso Business, the  B2B arm of Bitso that provides infrastructure for efficient and transparent local and cross-border  payments, today announced the launch of the second edition of The Push, its global stablecoin-focused  startup accelerator designed to support founders building the next generation of financial infrastructure for  Latin America. 

dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has partnered with DHL Express Brazil, the leading international express shipping provide

Fingerprint, a leader in device intelligence for fraud prevention, today announced the launch of Authorized AI Agent Detection, its new ecosystem of signed AI agents, including OpenAI, AWS AgentCore, Browserbase, Manus and Anchor Browser. The ecosystem enables enterprises to detect authorized agentic AI traffic with 100% certainty, allowing organizations to distinguish trusted, permissioned automation from malicious bots and scrapers.

Orbital, a global payment orchestration platform across stablecoins and traditional payment rails, today released its Q4 Stablecoin Retail Payments Index Snapshot. With data sourced from Artemis, the Index reveals that stablecoin use for smaller, retail-sized transactions under $10,000, has increased more than tenfold across 2025.