Viva.com, Europe’s first acquirer powering payments on any channel, and any device, in 24 markets, has expanded its strategic partnership with Alipay+, a suite of cross-border mobile payments and digitalization technology solutions, to enable European merchants to accept direct payments from 15 e-wallets. 

Tottenham Hotspur has today announced a new three-year strategic partnership with Ant International, a digital payment and financial technology leader.

The partnership sees Ant International, together with its business brands Alipay+, Antom, and WorldFirst, become the exclusive Official Global Payment Solutions and Digital Wallet Partner of Tottenham Hotspur, and Alipay+ the first Official Training Wear Sleeve Partner for both the men’s and women’s teams.

Victoriabank, one of Moldova’s leading banks and a member of Romania’s largest financial group–Banca Transilvania, partners with Salt Edge, a pioneer in open banking solutions, to ensure compliance with the national law transposing the European 2nd Payment Services Directive (PSD2) into Moldovan legislation.

Akur8, the machine learning-powered insurance pricing and reserving platform, announced today that it has secured $120 million in series C funding, bringing its total raised investment to $180 million. This latest funding round was led by One Peak, a leading growth equity firm investing in software scale-ups, with participation from Partners Group, one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry acting on behalf of its clients, and historical investor Guidewire Software, Inc..

Expanding its network across the global repo market, Global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), today announced that a Tier-1 Canadian Bank has implemented its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform for High-Quality Liquid Asset (HQLA) treasury securities management.

Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, today announced the launch of Thomson Reuters Audit Intelligence. This suite of AI-powered data-driven audit solutions is designed to transform audit practices by reducing errors and enhancing confidence, while enabling auditors to realize efficiency gains.

Helicap, a leading fintech platform provider specializing in emerging markets, is proud to announce the successful facilitation of a credit facility with XenCapital, the lending arm of Xendit, a fintech unicorn with operations across Southeast Asia and which has raised US$515million in venture capital funding.

Recorded Future is excited to announce its acquisition by Mastercard, one of the world’s most trusted and recognized companies, in a transaction valued at $2.65 billion. This acquisition represents a significant milestone in Recorded Future's journey, which began in 2007 with the development of the original patent for the Recorded Future Intelligence Platform.

J.P. Morgan Payments today announced new and enhanced product integrations connecting to the Oracle ecosystem, making it easier for clients to streamline their payments across treasury, trade and commerce.

CommCentral, a new cloud-based data solution providing banks and broker-dealers with real-time visibility into the investor communications they distribute and manage, is being rolled out by global fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.