Monzo has raced past 14 million customers, after a record 2 million individuals and businesses joined the UK’s largest digital bank in the six months to September 2025 - around a 40% uplift year-on-year. 

 Zopa Group PLC, the digital bank pioneer trusted by 1.6 million customers, is today announcing a landmark partnership with Upvest, Europe’s leading investment infrastructure provider. 

ID-Pal, a leading provider of AI-powered identity verification, has announced a major enhancement to its multi-award-winning document-fraud detection feature, ID-Detect, delivering even more powerful defences against digital manipulation generated by AI. This form of manipulation is one of the fastest-growing threats facing financially regulated enterprises and payments providers.

NEXT Biometrics, the world leader in advanced high-security fingerprint sensor technology, has secured its first mass production order in Vietnam. The order, for NEXT NB-2033-U2, has been placed by a Vietnamese System Integrator and the sensors will be used to support payments authentication and know-your-customer (KYC) use cases for stronger, more convenient transactions.

Zilch, the consumer payments platform powering the future of commerce, today announced a multi-year agreement with Arsenal, becoming the club’s Official Way To Pay.

The global partnership, which marks Zilch’s first foray into sports, spans both men’s and women’s teams, and will make available Zilch’s range of flexible payment options to Arsenal supporters.

Worth, the fintech platform modernizing onboarding and underwriting for financial institutions, today announces a series of leadership transitions and key executive hires to support the company’s accelerating growth following its impressive seed round earlier this year.

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has expanded its partnership with Blackhawk Network (BHN), a leading global provider of branded payment solutions, to give consumers even more choice and flexibility for purchasing gift cards, just in time for the holidays.

MoonPay, the global leader in crypto payments, has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Zengo Wallet, the secure self-custodial crypto wallet trusted by millions. The collaboration enhances wallet usability, expands payments access and accelerates product innovation across Zengo’s ecosystem. 

FinTech Connect, the UK’s largest and most influential fintech event, returns to Excel London on 2–3 December 2025 for its 10th anniversary edition.

Aero, one of Europe’s leading eCommerce platforms, has partnered with DNA Payments to bring retailers a single unified sales and payment platform, across website and in-person purchases.

With Aero’s Web-based POS and DNA Payments’ Wi-Fi enabled terminals, merchants can now run every part of their business from their Aero website – from online sales to in-store – all on one technology and payments platform.