Alipay+ is Ant International’s global wallet gateway, enabling global merchants to accept payments from users of mobile wallets and digital banking apps around the world, and revealed three trends impacting tourism in 2025 and beyond.

To empower global tourism, Alipay+ has significantly expanded its payments and digital services ecosystem, in three ways:

AccessPay, the leading bank integration provider, today announced that it has completed the roll out of its SWIFT connectivity solution for Finseta, an international payments and alternative banking provider, to ensure a reliable, secure way to process cross-border payments.

ID Finance, one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs and the leading alternative lending platform in Spain and Mexico, has partnered with digital banking provider myTU to reinforce its payment infrastructure and ensure uninterrupted customer service. The partnership enabled ID Finance to deploy instant loan payouts within a single business day, avoiding a potentially costly disruption.

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today announced a series of innovations across its product suite, designed to keep merchants ahead in a rapidly evolving digital economy.

Ecommpay, the inclusive global payments platform, is enhancing its credit strategy in a new partnership with online finance specialist, humm. Addressing demand for flexible online finance solutions that go beyond the current Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) offerings, the collaboration will be especially valuable to the Travel and high value Retail sectors, complementing Ecommpay’s already wide choice of credit services.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming essential to how UK banks and fintechs retain customers in international markets, according to new research from DeepL, a global AI product and research company. A new survey of 1,500 financial services professionals in Europe, including 500 across the UK reveals that AI is now embedded in customer communications – from faster support to real-time multilingual translation – with over a third (37%) client interactions already AI-powered.

UK consumers are the most likely to think that fraud will become a bigger issue for banks and insurers in the next five years, compared to other European countries.

The new findings from CRIF, Europe’s leading provider of consumer and credit information, shows that four in five Brits (84%) expect the scale of fraud to become an even bigger issue between now and 2030, with the level of expectation higher than in Germany (80%), France (77%), Italy (76%), and Poland (76%).

Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, showcased its leadership in payments modernization at Sibos last week, hosting two panels that addressed the urgent need for banks to innovate and collaborate in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

iBanFirst, the next-generation cross-border payment services provider, today announces the launch of iBanPay for customers operating in the UK. The AI-powered assistant transfers incoming invoices into ready-to-approve payment orders, reducing errors and freeing finance teams from manual, time-consuming tasks.

Pension-finding platform, Raindrop has recovered over £800 million in lost pension pot savings for UK savers since launch.  

During 2025, Raindrop has recovered a total of almost £400 million from lost or forgotten pension pots for savers, already surpassing the £251 million found in 2024.