Orbital, a global payment orchestration platform across stablecoins and traditional payment rails, today released its Q4 Stablecoin Retail Payments Index Snapshot. With data sourced from Artemis, the Index reveals that stablecoin use for smaller, retail-sized transactions under $10,000, has increased more than tenfold across 2025. 

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, is joining Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to help AI agents and commerce systems work together across the full shopping lifecycle, from discovery and purchase through post-purchase support. UCP enables consumers to shop seamlessly in AI conversations while giving agents, merchant systems, and payment providers a standardized way to interact across multiple AI platforms.

Varo Bank, the first all-digital nationally chartered bank in the U.S., today announced that it raised a growth investment of $123.9 million. Varo’s Series G round led by existing investor Warburg Pincus and new investor Coliseum Capital Management, LLC. Existing investors, including Northview, further increased their investment in the company.

Oracle Financial Services Summit -- Oracle Financial Services is transforming banking with an enterprise-class suite of AI-infused applications, design tools, frameworks and pre-built AI agents. With these advancements, banks can benefit from intelligent, conversational interfaces and autonomous AI agents. These capabilities allow financial institutions to better understand and anticipate customers' evolving needs and deliver hyper-personalized service whether the customer is banking online, using a mobile device or in a physical branch.

Basware, a global leader in Invoice Lifecycle Management, is poised for breakout growth. And the company today announced the appointment of Kira Mondrus as Chief Marketing Officer to help fuel it. 

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, announced today the promotion of Reena Raichura to SVP and Chief Product Officer. Raichura, an award-winning fintech and product development executive, has more than 25 years of experience in technology and capital markets.

Paysafe, a leading payments platform, has partnered with FuturePay Global Limited, a provider of cross-border payment solutions established in 2016.

NCR Atleos Corporation, a leader in expanding self-service financial access for financial institutions, retailers and consumers, today announced the renewal of its long-standing relationship with Heart of England Co-operative.