Absa, in partnership with UnionPay International (UPI), is launching contactless payments to UnionPay cardholders across South Africa, thereby strengthening its commitment to offering a seamless and secure payments experience. The collaboration ensures that customers with UnionPay cards can enjoy an even faster and more convenient checkout experience at thousands of retail stores nationwide.

Neonomics, a leading open banking provider has partnered with Ovoro, a pioneering Finnish fintech, to integrate Nello Pay, Neonomics’ seamless open banking payments solution, into Ovoro’s crypto platform. This collaboration is set to redefine how users across the Nordics buy and sell crypto, making transactions faster, safer, and more cost-effective for investors.

Today, Ozone API, the global leader in open banking technology, announces it has launched an industry-first tool which forecasts an accurate estimated cost for US banks planning on building their own API infrastructure. It comes in response to the recent Section 1033 rulemaking under the Dodd-Frank Act, which means that American consumers will have the right to access and share their financial data.  
 

Rapid Finance, a leader in small business financing and enterprise lending solutions, announced the availability of its SMB Disclosure Service, a standalone Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Regtech Module, to help business funders and financing companies comply with Missouri’s commercial disclosure requirements which took effect on February 28, 2025.

MoonPay, the global leader in crypto payments, today announced the launch of MoonPay Labs, an accelerator for early-stage Web3 technical founders. MoonPay Labs serves as a launchpad for high-potential teams, providing initial pre-seed capital, product, and UX guidance, and tailored go-to-market (GTM) support leading up to their next funding round.   

SEI® today announced that SEI Investments (Europe) Limited (SIEL) will partner with Ctrl Alt, a leading tokenisation platform, and participate in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The DSS aims to facilitate innovation in market infrastructure and protect financial stability and market integrity by evaluating blockchain and distributed ledger technology in a non-live environment.

DECTA, a leading provider of technical payment solutions, is excited to announce the launch of the DECTA Fintech Fast Track—a program designed to fast-track the journey of innovative fintech companies entering the card issuing and payment acquiring industry.

Klarna, the AI-powered payments and commerce network, is marking the one-year milestone of its first subscription service Klarna Plus, which on average has surpassed nearly 35,000 signups a month in the US since its launch in January 2024. 

JCB, Japan’s only international payment brand, and First Cash Solution, a leading integrated payment provider as a subsidiary of Volksbank eG – Die Gestalterbank, today announced a strategic partnership to significantly expand JCB Card acceptance throughout Germany. This collaboration has streamlined e-commerce transactions and expanded payment options for all merchants with J/SecureTM since its launch in 2024.

RedCompass Labs, the global experts in payments modernization, has today unveiled the world’s most comprehensive payments modernization-specific AI solution, AnalystAccelerator v2.5. Trained on the largest collection of payments rulebooks and scheme documents in the world and fine-tuned on decades of knowledge from leading payments experts, AnalystAccelerator 2.5 delivers cutting-edge applied AI models to help banks accelerate payments transformation.