Leading foreign exchange company Travelex has acquired over 150,000 members for its exclusive new loyalty programme, Travelex Plus, less than a year after the scheme’s UK launch.

Travelex Plus offers access to a range of benefits including exclusive rates, discounts, price-freezes and favourable-rate alerts.

X announces it will begin rolling out in-app stock and cryptocurrency trading within the coming weeks, marking a major step forward in its evolution into a fully integrated digital platform. The new feature, called Smart Cashtags, will allow users to interact with ticker symbols directly in posts and execute trades seamlessly from within the app.

Finova, one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud-based mortgage, savings and lending software, has announced the appointment of Anja Schneider as Chief Delivery Officer, as the business continues to strengthen its leadership team and scale its operations.

SWIAT GmbH, a German  fintech company specialising in the development of blockchain software  and a tokenisation platform for an open, decentralised financial market  infrastructure, has supported Bank of Greece in “Project Sovereign”, a  simulation of a digital sovereign bond issuance on the SWIAT blockchain. 

Transaction Network Services (TNS) today announced an upgrade to its TNS Data Usage Optimizer (DUO) with the launch of an interactive customer portal.

Medius, a leading provider of AP Automation and wider Spend Management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Adyen, ​​the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, ​​to introduce corporate expense cards integrated with its expense management solution Expensya by

New research from FIS suggests that digital currencies, such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, are firmly on the radar of younger consumers, but limited understanding and concerns around transparency continue to hold back wider adoption across the UK.

While the FCA recently confirmed that stablecoin payments are a 2026 priority, the data shows a clear knowledge gap among UK consumers, alongside uncertainty about how the technology works in practice and how it is regulated.

Temenos, a global leader in banking technology, today announced that Bank of Beirut UK Ltd, has successfully gone live with Temenos Core Banking and Payments. This strategic transformation positions Bank of Beirut UK to expand its corporate banking operations and strengthen its role as a trusted partner for businesses and correspondent banks across the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

A new global study released today by BVNK reveals that stablecoins are no longer niche, but are becoming a practical, everyday form of money being used around the world for everything from getting paid to buying goods and services. 

Over the past year, we analysed 672 businesses worldwide to understand how payment stacks evolve as companies scale. The result is our latest research, The state of payment maturity 2025 — a global study built to help teams benchmark how they structure, manage, and optimise payments today.