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. 

U.S. Bank today announced the addition of three new integrated partners to its Avvance point-of-sale lending platform, further accelerating the growth of its API-driven embedded financing solutions. KabelSync, Strictly, and United Credit, have launched Avvance as an embedded payment option within their platforms, enabling merchants to offer flexible financing at the point of need.

Barclays today announced it is collaborating with ExpectAI, a pioneering technology company that uses AI with the aim of helping small and medium-sized businesses grow their profits, using sustainability insights.

At Barclays, we are harnessing artificial intelligence to drive efficiency, create capacity and fuel innovation, helping our people to become more productive and improving client service.

Lili, the leading business banking platform, today announced that they are setting the standard for five-star customer support for business owners. The company leverages a mix of AI chatbots and personalized human support for optimal customer service. With this balanced approach, 83% of customers gave Lili’s support experience a high score of 9 or 10.

Prove, the leader in digital identity, today announced the launch of ProveX, a new digital trust exchange that enables enterprises to instantly access verified data and credentials from partners, while preserving trust through every interaction. Built on Prove’s tokenized identity framework, ProveX turns verified identity into a durable foundation for growth, allowing businesses to create personalized, seamless, and intelligent customer experiences previously out of reach.

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, today announced it has acquired OpenGamma, a market leader in derivatives margin analytics for buy-side and sell-side clients. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.