Octane® , the fintech revolutionizing the buying experience, announced it has closed its Series F funding round of $100 million in equity capital. The raise includes new equity capital to be used for growth initiatives as well as amounts to be used for secondary share transfers.

Plata, the Mexican financial technology company, has secured a new financing of up to US$500 million arranged by Nomura Securities International, Inc. ("Nomura") It is the largest funding to date for a Mexican digital financial services company.

COONECTA, Ecuador’s leading transactional network serving financial institutions regulated by the Superintendencia de Economía Popular y Solidaria (SEPS), has partnered with BPC, a global leader in payment solutions, to drive country-wide digital transformation and financial inclusion.

Yowpay, a technology company specialized in SEPA-based account-to-account payment solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Akurateco, a leading white-label payment software provider used by PSPs, enterprise merchants, and banks worldwide.

Federato, the AI-native platform that changes the way insurance work gets done, today announced the appointment of Lisa Khoury as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The appointment comes as insurers move away from an old core of legacy systems and toward AI-native solutions. 

Sardine, the leading agentic risk management platform designed to protect companies from financial crime, today announced its partnership with Helix by Q2 , an award-winning, cloud-native core purpose-built for embedded finance. Through this partnership, Sardine will deliver real-time transaction monitoring, fraud interdiction, and BSA/AML compliance tools, helping Helix’s sponsor banks and fintechs strengthen risk management.

Mastercard has launched a new WhatsApp chatbot to provide cardholders with easier access to the benefits of its Silver Logo benefits, enhancing convenience and engagement for affluent consumers in Azerbaijan.

For nearly two decades, MPE has grown into Europe's #1 Conference for the merchant payments ecosystem, uniting merchants, acquirers, innovators, Fintech's, and regulators to tackle what drives the industry: from AI in payments, fraud prevention, stablecoins, optimisation, to A2A payments, PSD3 and more.
Expect 1,600+ attendees, 500+ global merchants, 170+ speakers, and 90+ sponsors.

Effective immediately, Deutsche Bank and Postbank are offering their clients the full range of functions of the new digital payment app Wero. Since the beginning of the week, clients of both banks have been able to send and receive money in real time to family and friends across Europe with Wero, as well as pay in participating online shops. Postbank clients, who have already been able to transfer money to personal contacts with Wero since November 2024, have now been given the e-commerce function.

Banking Transformation Summit returns to Tobacco Dock, London on 19–20 May 2026, bringing together 1,000 senior banking leaders from 120 banks and building societies for two days of insights, full hospitality and exceptional networking. 

Over 100 speakers will share their experience across five programme themes: The AI Frontier, Trust in the System, Intelligent Infrastructure, Money in Motion and Power to the People - covering the technologies, capabilities and cultural shifts redefining modern banking.