Iliad Solutions, a global leader in payments testing, has moved to new headquarters in Leeds city centre at 1 City Square. The strategic move marks a new chapter for the business as it looks to build on its recent period of significant growth. This is on the back of several recent contract wins with major worldwide payments companies who rely on Iliad Solutions and its market-leading payments testing solution, t3.

Nu, one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, and the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team today announce a new multi-year partnership establishing Nu as Official Team Partner, ahead of the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship Season.

New research from ClearBank, conducted by Celent, and in collaboration with Plaid, reveals that Europe’s payments industry is on the cusp of a significant transformation, resulting from the introduction of the Instant Payment Regulation’s SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SEPA Instant) mandates. The report, ‘SEPA Instant: Build it and they will come,’ finds that real-time SEPA Instant payments will surpass traditional transfers by 2030, becoming the second most used non-cash payment type by 2035, accounting for 18% of all eurozone payments.

Global payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo and Visa, a world leader in digital payments, have announced a partnership that will provide fast and user-friendly crypto-to-fiat global off-ramping via Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time payments platform.

AI has taken center stage in financial services, automating the research and execution behind algorithmic trading and helping banks more accurately detect fraud and money laundering — all while improving risk management practices and expediting document processing. 

Token.io today announced that Gideon Fourie, Managing Director (Geschäftsführer) of Token GmbH, has been appointed to the Berlin Group’s openFinance Advisory Board, effective 1 January 2026.

Montran, the global leader in financial infrastructure and payment solutions, today announced the opening of its new Middle East & North Africa (MENA) regional office, which is based out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The expansion underscores Montran's continued global growth and long-term commitment to empowering financial ecosystems through innovation, resilience, and interoperability.

Allica Bank has successfully gone live on Lendscape’s industry-leading lending  platform, marking a major milestone in its digital transformation journey and unlocking  new capacity for growth and innovation. 

Prediction 1: The Great AI ROI Reckoning

2026 is when the music stops. CFOs are done writing blank checks for "AI innovation" that can't be tied to actual business results. We're already seeing enterprises start to pump the brakes on a significant percentage of their planned AI spending because leadership finally asked the obvious question: "What are we actually getting for this?" And most teams have no good answer from a year of PoCs that never made it into production.