Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, today announced its support for Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open standard designed to enable secure, agent-led payments across digital environments. The collaboration builds on Klarna’s long-standing relationship with Google, which includes integrations with Google Pay, Chrome’s autofill feature, Google Store, Google Play, and Google Cloud.

Viamericas, a leading provider of remittance and international money transfer services, today announced the expansion of its global payout network to Vietnam through a new partnership with DongA Money Transfer Company.

The collaboration strengthens Viamericas’ ability to serve one of the world’s largest remittance markets, offering families in Vietnam greater choice, speed and reliability when receiving money from abroad.

Prometeia, a leading risk technology and  advisory firm in EMEA in the financial industry, has entered a new partnership with Arab  Bank Switzerland, an innovative Swiss Private Bank.  

The collaboration centers on the adoption of Prometeia’s ALM Suite, a comprehensive  platform for managing interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB) as well as liquidity  risk, in full compliance with FINMA supervisory standards.  

mBank successfully completes one of the most ambitious technology modernization programs in the European banking sector. The bank has been recognized with the top honor in the Forrester Technology Strategy Impact Award 2025 for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). The award acknowledges the effective execution of a comprehensive IT transformation strategy that has completely reshaped mBank’s technological infrastructure.

Capitalixe, a high-risk payments and banking advisory, has expanded into Dubai with both Co-Founders, Ivan Kovachev and Lissele Pratt, relocating to the city. The move positions the firm at the centre of one of the world’s fastest growing financial hubs.

Ebury, the global fintech specialising in international payments and FX risk  management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Dierens as its new  Country Manager for Belgium.  

PAIR Finance, Europe’s leading digital debt collection platform, has announced its expansion into Italy. This market entry follows the company’s success in ten European countries and marks the highly anticipated launch in Italy. As part of this expansion, PAIR Finance has opened a branch office in Milan to ensure optimal support for Italian clients.

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Tide, the UK’s leading business management platform, is expanding its technology centre in Lithuania, reinforcing its commitment to international expansion and scaling its engineering capabilities. Tide is planning to employ an additional 60-70 full-time professionals over the next 3 years, focusing on backend and mobile development in remote-first positions, with an office in Vilnius.

LSEG and Microsoft today announced the next step in their multi-year, strategic partnership: transforming access to LSEG licensed financial data and powering the deployment of agentic AI with data that is secure and accessible through an LSEG managed MCP server. Through this collaboration, agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio and deployed in Microsoft 365 Copilot can be enabled with LSEG data.

TS Imagine, a leading global provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for capital markets, today announced a strategic development partnership with Gentek.ai, a pure-play horizontal AI platform with deep domain experience in financial services.