Amazon and Santander announced that the Amazon Visa credit card is now available for amazon.de customers in Austria. The card has no annual fee and does not require customers to open a new bank account. Amazon Visa enables customers to earn rewards while shopping on and off Amazon.de, which can be redeemed for purchases on Amazon.de. The Amazon Visa credit card is issued by Zinia by Santander.

Kantox, a leading provider of Currency Management Automation solutions, is further strengthening its global position with the appointment of Andrew Gage as its new US Sales Director. This strategic hire comes as the company expands its presence into the North American market.

Today, Flywire Corporation, a global payments enablement and software company, announced the appointment of Mohit Kansal to Chief Payments Officer. In this expanded role, Kansal will help accelerate Flywire’s payments strategy and drive technical alignment within Flywire’s verticals, while building on the growth of its global payment network.

Vivid is taking a major step in the European SME space, expanding its financial platform for SMEs and entrepreneurs into France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. With 30,000 SMEs onboarded in under a year – making it one of Europe’s fastest-growing SME financial platforms  – Vivid is building on its retail finance expertise to offer a seamless, borderless financial experience tailored to business owners.

The third edition of the Crypto Landscape in Latin America report  presented by Bitso –the leading crypto-driven financial services company in the region– reveals that in  2024 the number of its Latin American clients grew by 12%. These customers are also expanding their  investment horizons by diversifying their portfolios. This behavior has driven the adoption of more  sophisticated strategies for digital asset management, with 38% of users including three or more  cryptocurrencies in their portfolios. 

In 2024, Nexi led the growth of mobile pa

UK paytech platform Blink Payment today announces its technology will be integrated into insurance software provider ParaCode’s customer platform, allowing insurance brokers to streamline and enhance their payments processes.

£1.3 trillion of UK savings is sitting in low interest savings accounts earning less than 50% of the Bank of England base rate (currently 4.5%), according to analysis of Bank of England credit data by Flagstone, the UK’s largest savings platform*. This equates to approximately three in every four pounds of UK savers’ hard-earned cash. 

KCB Bank, the largest financial institution in East Africa, has partnered with Compass Plus Technologies to strengthen its multi-currency offering by launching Kenya’s first platinum multi-currency prepaid card which will empower its customers with the flexibility and convenience they need to pay for goods and access funds across borders.