Dow Jones today announced it has agreed to acquire Dragonfly Intelligence, a geopolitical and security intelligence provider, and Oxford Analytica, a provider of geopolitical intelligence advisory services from FiscalNote Holdings, Inc., for $40 million. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025 and is subject to regulatory approval in Austria and customary closing conditions. Dow Jones's parent company, News Corp, expects to receive a $4 million tax benefit in connection with the transaction.

Wirex, a leading Web3 money app, has announced the expansion of its innovative stablecoin payment platform, Wirex Pay, to the U.S. This milestone marks a major step in making stablecoin payments more accessible, offering U.S. residents a seamless, secure, and self-custodial way to transact with stablecoins.

NCR Voyix Corporation , a leading global provider of digital commerce solutions, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Worldpay®, a global industry leader in payments technology, to enable NCR Voyix to offer a combined cloud-based software and payments solution to retailers and restaurants. NCR Voyix will leverage Worldpay’s industry-leading acquiring services to provide NCR Voyix customers with an integrated payments acceptance offering.

Sadad, a leading company in online and electronic financial transactions offering multi payment solutions in Qatar, has announced its strategic collaboration with Mastercard to introduce a new digital payment gateway platform, powered by Mastercard Gateway. Through this partnership, Sadad will deploy state-of-the-art payment solutions to enhance the customer experience for its merchants in the market.

Stripe, the financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today shared that it processed $1.4 trillion in total payment volume in 2024, up 38% from the prior year, and equivalent to around 1.3% of global GDP.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 Insight Report paints a bleak picture of what the year ahead holds for technology security teams worldwide. However, some industries are likely to be worse off than others.

Orum, which transforms payment technology for businesses by revolutionizing payment speed, certainty, and payment rail orchestration, has announced it will now offer U.S. customers real-time1 fund transfers to and from bank accounts via debit card with its Deliver API solution, powered by Visa Direct.

Orum’s Deliver API allows businesses and financial institutions to integrate quickly to a single API that optimizes and orchestrates payments using Visa Direct and other local real-time1 payment options.

Treasury Prime, a leading embedded banking software company, announced today that 

Nacha’s newest Preferred Partner is ACI Worldwide, which joins as a Preferred Partner for ACH Experience/Fraud Monitoring/Risk and Fraud Prevention.

Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, today announced that