Ambitious payments solutions provider exactly. has secured a major partnership by adding Apple Pay to its list of integrated payment systems - empowering merchants to process transactions via one of the most popular mobile payment systems worldwide. 

The integration of Apple Pay offers exactly. customers an even more convenient and secure way to manage their finances and payment methods - enabling purchases through Apple Wallet apps. 

New generations (in particular, Generation Z) are super digital. They have never known the analogue world and they are not looking back.

Younger people prefer convenient mobile-enabled payments, driven by a broad variety of wallets provide value beyond just making a payment. These payments often offer a quick “tap and go” experience and increasingly in 2024, more payments will happen invisibly, without even the friction of a tap or indeed any manual initiation of the payment.

In with the old, as good as new

The first use of a commercial card for a B2B payment was recorded by the travel industry in 1937. Yet nearly a century later, commercial cards are still not a widespread B2B payment method. Why? They are often hampered by security concerns, supplier acceptance, and incompatibility with existing financial systems.

Leading global intelligence and cyber security consultancy S-RM has today announced the appointment of Belén Satorre as Associate Director in its growing ESG division. 

Tarabut, MENA’s first and leading open banking platform, announces the appointment of Munthir Alsheddie as the company’s Country Manager in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Kindcard, Inc., an innovative FinTech and PayTech company that provides alternative “Closed-Loop” payments solutions to businesses across a wide variety of merchant verticals through its wholly owned subsidiary, Deb, Inc., today announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Acepay, Inc. in connection with the Company’s potential acquisition of OpenTransact.

AMLYZE, a leading RegTech specializing in anti-financial crime solutions for FinTechs, banks and crypto businesses, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with TransactionLink, the Berlin-based no-code platform, in a move that will transform the landscape of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) automation. 

This collaboration will enable TransactionLink's clients to have most stages of their AML journey handled by AMLYZE.

Dubai Duty Free, one of the world’s largest travel retail operators, today announced its partnership with Alipay+ to power a seamless travel and checkout experience for international visitors.

Consumers from South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia, and Italy as well as Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao are now able to access promotions and pay with their home digital apps at duty-free stores in Dubai and Al Maktoum International airports.