Fime has advanced its collaboration with imark to provide local EMV®* Level 3 test services in Nepal. Together, the companies will support the nation’s rapidly expanding digital payments ecosystem by providing local testing and consultancy services to issuers and acquirers.

Mastercard announces the return of Women SME Leaders Awards for its third edition, shining a spotlight on the remarkable achievements of women-owned and led businesses across Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA).

Droit, a technology firm at the forefront of computational law and regulation, will partner with FINBOURNE Technology, a provider of cloud-based investment data management software, to launch an end-to-end position reporting solution for increased regulatory transparency.

Over one hundred global jurisdictions have position reporting obligations, requiring market participants to report equity and equity derivatives holdings to regulatory bodies; a process that is complex, time consuming and costly.

Global real-time payments growth has reached sustainable levels with 266.2 billion real-time payments transactions recorded in 2023—a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 42.2%—according to the 2024 Prime Time for Real-Time report, published by ACI Worldwide, a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, in partnership with GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Crown Agents Bank, the specialist provider of foreign exchange (FX) and cross-border payments for hard-to-reach markets, and Invest Africa, a leading platform for business and investment opportunities in Africa, today announces a new collaboration, ‘The Payments Exchange’. The campaign will drive new insight and understanding around the role of FX and payments in the economic transformation of Africa.

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Phillip McLelland as a Non-Executive Director of the Bank.

Phillip McLelland joined the Board of Gatehouse Bank in April 2024 with over 30 years of experience within highly commercial, complex, and regulated environments, including energy and financial services.

Wakam receives approval as a licensed and regulated insurer by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to support the launch of its new, UK subsidiary, Wakam UK Limited. 

Viva.com, Europe’s first acquirer powering merchant payments acceptance on any device in 24 markets, enters a strategic partnership with Satispay, the leading mobile payment circuit in Italy independent from credit and debit cards, to eliminate the barriers between the physical and online shopping experience for merchants and consumers.

Phos, the global leader in software point-of-sale (SoftPoS) orchestration for businesses, has partnered with the leading cloud platform for global card processing, Silverflow, to help businesses leverage a best-in-class solution for accepting contactless payments directly to mobile devices.