The Western Union Company (“Western Union”) today announced its plan to launch U.S. Dollar Payment Token (USDPT), its new stablecoin, and an innovative Digital Asset Network designed to bridge the digital and fiat worlds, enabling real world utility for digital assets. Built on Solana and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, Western Union aims to launch USDPT, expanding the ways to move money for customers, agents and partners, and to support the company’s treasury capabilities.

FinTech Connect, the UK’s largest and most influential fintech event, returns to Excel London on 2–3 December 2025

FinTech Connect, the UK’s biggest fintech event, celebrates its 10th anniversary this 2–3 December 2025 at Excel London. 

Bringing together over 5,000 senior leaders from banks, fintechs, investors, and regulators, the event marks a decade of innovation, connection, and growth across the financial technology ecosystem. 

Payment routing is often pitched as “send traffic to the cheapest or most likely-to-approve provider.” If only it were that simple. In reality, every decision has to juggle provider constraints and traffic-protection rules, all while keeping conversion and risk in balance. 

NMI®, a global leader in embedded payments infrastructure, announces the launch of its developer-first experience — a modern, self-service integration environment that helps SaaS builders and software platforms embed payments easily and deliver products to market faster.

General Bank of Canada (GBC), a Schedule 1 chartered western Canadian bank, is partnering with Thought Machine, the next-generation banking technology company. This collaboration is a cornerstone of GBC's vision, marking a fundamental shift to a modern, cloud-native technology architecture.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced record-breaking results for the STAC-M3 benchmark, in collaboration with Intel and Micron, at the STAC Summit in New York City. STAC, an independent testing organization focused on the financial industry, leads the STAC Benchmark™ Council with over 500 financial services institutions and more than 70 technology companies participating. 

Flagright, the AI-native, no-code platform for transaction monitoring and AML compliance, is pleased to welcome Webull, an online investment platform, as its newest client. Webull will utilize Flagright’s AI-native transaction monitoring and AML compliance solutions – including AML screening, customer risk scoring, case management, and AI forensics – to further strengthen the AML framework.

Unlimit, the global fintech company, today announced that Apple Pay is now available for disbursements. Unlimit's platform enables its business partners across Europe to provide their retail customers the ability to seamlessly convert their crypto into fiat — a major step in Web3’s pursuit of increased accessibility and mass consumer adoption. By integrating the Apple Pay Transfer Funds API into the Unlimit platform, retail customers using Unlimit can seamlessly transfer their fiat funds to eligible Apple Pay cards.