Ericsson and Mastercard today announce a collaboration to reshape how money moves across the world. By integrating the Ericsson Fintech Platform (Mobile Financial Services) with Mastercard Move - Mastercard’s portfolio of money movement solutions - the collaboration will empower telecom service providers, banks, and fintechs to expand digital wallet capabilities, launch new payment services, and reach unbanked or underbanked communities.

 eNovate, a subsidiary of eFinance Investment Group,  and Cobi, a UAE-headquartered AI-native customer intelligence platform, today announced the integration of Cobi’s AI-powered intelligence infrastructure across its digital payment ecosystem to redefine how young people across Egypt engage with digital financial services.

Cloudflare, Inc. , the leading connectivity cloud company, and 

Bank payment company GoCardless has announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP), a tool enabling developers to use their preferred Large Language Model (LLM) to ‘speak’ to GoCardless.

Gr4vy, the cloud-based payment orchestration platform, today announced a new integration with Sardine, the leading agentic platform to fight financial crime. The integration allows Gr4vy customers to embed fraud solutions, including real-time transaction monitoring, fraud interdiction, and BSA/AML compliance tools, directly into their payment orchestration stack without additional development.

Sphinx, the company building browser-native compliance agents for financial institutions, today announced it has raised a $7.1 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures, and Singularity Capital. The funding will be used to scale Sphinx’s agentic compliance workforce as banks and fintechs increasingly rely on it for core AML, KYC, and KYB operations.

ACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced a major step forward in the UK’s payments modernization journey as a leading UK retail bank chooses ACI Connetic — the industry’s first unified, cloud-native platform — for deployment.

Mintos, a European multi-asset investment platform, has taken a major step in its long-term strategy by initiating the process to pursue a banking licence from the European Central Bank (ECB). Obtaining a banking licence would strengthen investor trust, expand Mintos' financial infrastructure, and support sustainable growth across Europe.

DBS Bank, Southeast Asia's largest bank and Visa, a global leader in digital payments today announced their ongoing collaboration to drive the future of agent-initiated payments via a joint pilot under Visa Intelligent Commerce (VIC). VIC brings together a comprehensive suite of integrated APIs and a partner programme, utilising Visa's secure infrastructure to enable safe, transparent and consent-driven payments by AI agents, on behalf of consumers.

NCR Atleos Corporation, a leader in expanding self-service financial access for financial institutions, retailers and consumers, today announced that UnionPay cardholders can now withdraw cash at thousands of Cashzone ATMs across the UK, timed to coincide with Chinese New Year celebrations.