BR-DGE, the breakthrough payment orchestration provider, today announces a strategic partnership with Traveltek, a leading provider of travel technology.

Nearly three-quarters of UK businesses remain optimistic about taking their operations global, despite shifting trade regulations and global market complexities, new research commissioned by Equals Money has revealed. 

The survey of 509 senior decision-makers in UK businesses found that 63 per cent expect rising protectionist tariffs, such as those from the US, to benefit international growth. 

FinScan®, an Innovative Systems solution and leading provider of advanced anti-money laundering (AML) compliance solutions, has signed UK-based Vanquis Banking Group plc, a leading FTSE All Share specialist bank, to further strengthen its AML processes and financial crime risk management.

IncredibleBank, a digital-focused community bank headquartered in Wausau, WI, has partnered with Alloy, a leading identity and fraud prevention platform provider, to provide faster service to improve its account opening process, helping the bank to accelerate growth and reduce manual reviews.

9fin, the leading AI-powered analytics platform for debt capital markets, announced today that it has acquired Bond Radar, a premier intelligence and data provider for the international bond and loan markets. This strategic move enhances 9fin's offering with Bond Radar's deep historical data and broad market reach, particularly within investment grade debt and emerging markets.

PayU GPO, the leading online payment service provider operating in over 50 emerging markets, has revealed new insight into merchants across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Africa and Latin America (LatAm), who have experienced optimised payments, improved approval rates and unlocked new growth opportunities, thanks to PayU GPO’s data driven approach.  

Juspay, a global leader in payment infrastructure solutions for enterprises and banks, has launched Hyperswitch, the world’s first open-source modular payments platform.

The Bank of England (the Bank) has today launched the 2025 Bank Capital Stress Test for the seven largest and most systemic UK banks and building societies. The exercise is the successor to the Annual Cyclical Scenario (ACS).

The test involves a hypothetical stress scenario which will be used to assess the resilience of the UK banking system to deep simultaneous recessions in the UK and global economies, large falls in asset prices, higher global interest rates, and a stressed level of misconduct costs.

Burbank, a pioneer in next-generation payments technology, has announced its GBP 5 million Series Seed financing to support the launch of its ground-breaking payments platform, Card Present over Internet (CPoI). The funding round was led by Mouro Capital with participation from Anthemis (supported by Foxe Capital), Portfolio Ventures and others. These funds will accelerate the global roll out of Burbank's platform.

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