Visa, a global leader in digital payments, is creating new opportunities for clients to leverage its deep expertise in cybersecurity through its value-added services and risk management offerings. As a part of this strategy, Visa announced today the launch of the global Visa Cybersecurity Advisory Practice, empowering clients with analysis of the risk landscape along with the actionable insights needed to identify, evaluate, and thwart emerging cybersecurity threats.

Fime has announced a strategic partnership with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), the only accredited NFC Forum testing laboratory in China. As part of this collaboration, CAICT has selected Fime’s NFC RF test bench solutions, including the state-of-the-art Contactless Test Station (CTS) III emulator.

Wells Fargo and Google Cloud are excited to announce an expansion of their strategic relationship, which will transform how Wells Fargo uses and deploys agentic AI at scale. 

This expanded collaboration will equip Wells Fargo employees — including branch bankers, investment bankers, marketers, and customer relations and corporate teams — with AI agents and tools from Google Cloud. 

Liminal Custody, a leading regulated wallet infrastructure and custody platform, has appointed Rajesh Sabari as its Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). He will lead the company’s next phase of commercial and strategic growth, with a focus on deepening institutional adoption across Asia, the Middle East, and emerging markets.

Debt collections is the backbone of lending, however collections today are run by collection agencies who care very little about the borrower and mostly care about their commissions. With a vision to build India’s best collections company, DPDzero has announced raising $7million in Series-A funding led by GMO VenturePartners – Japan’s premier fintech focused VC, SMBC Asia Rising Fund, and Blume Ventures, which has doubled down since the previous round.

Crypto.com today announced a new integration with Plaid to allow Crypto.com users to easily transfer their investments from other platforms to Crypto.com without needing to sell and therefore incur taxes. The offering is enabled by Investments Move, Plaid’s new product that securely and digitally automates brokerage account transfers and reduces operational complexity, which can shorten the time it takes a user to successfully submit a transfer to less than a minute.

Leading digital bank Monzo today announces that it has surpassed 13 million customers, as it progresses at pace with its ambition to build the one app customers turn to to manage their entire financial lives.

Four fifths (80%) of first-time buyers moved back in with their parents to save for a deposit, TSB finds. 

TSB surveyed over 1,000 first-time buyers who had bought a property in the past year – and found that compromise and location are key, as three quarters (75%) of new property owners opted for fewer bedrooms, a smaller property and less outdoor space to buy in a preferred post code.   

The Supervisory Board of Triodos Bank N.V. intends to appoint Suzanne Schilder (1976) as Chief Transformation Officer and Barbara van Duijn (1981) as Chief Information Officer. Both new roles strengthen the Executive Board of Triodos Bank to deliver on its strategic ambitions to secure its frontrunner position in impact finance, achieve focused growth and drive an efficient and robust operating model.

Global Payments Inc., a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, today announced that it has been selected as the payments technology provider for Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins and Target Field, and also extended its status as payment processing provider for the Dallas Cowboys and AT&T Stadium.