As the payments and identification landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, TRUSTECH’s latest visitor survey provides a compelling snapshot of how industry professionals perceive the near future. The findings reveal both optimism and urgency, with innovation, security, and sustainability emerging as central priorities for 2025 and beyond.

A market brimming with confidence and challenges

Millions of UK consumers could save an average of £1,257 each year by consolidating unoptimised debt, according to new Experian research. As the UK braces for the Autumn Budget this week and with Christmas spending adding seasonal pressure to household budgets, new research reveals that wider adoption of debt consolidation technology could unlock £15.1 billion in household spending and generate £2.1 billion in extra savings annually through reduced interest costs. 

RTGS.global, the fintech transforming how cross-border payments are made and settled, has today announced that 23 currencies have been added to its global network.

Payhawk, the finance orchestration platform helping companies unify spend management, Accounts Payable, and payments, today announced a partnership with Invopop, a certified Peppol Access Point provider. This collaboration expands Payhawk’s eInvoicing capabilities across Europe allowing finance teams to receive, validate, approve, and pay structured eInvoices directly within the platform without additional systems or integrations.

Anticipating Europe’s eInvoicing transformation

'Friendly fraud’ is expected to increase by 25% between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, according to an analysis of billions of transactions of global eCommerce businesses by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology.

Tide, the UK’s leading business management platform,  is launching Tide Insurance for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new service enables Tide members to access tailored business insurance directly through the Tide app - saving them time, reducing admin, and helping close the protection gap among UK small businesses. The first products are being launched in partnership with Admiral Business. 

Bitso, leader in digital financial services in Latin America, today  announced a major expansion of its onchain ecosystem, unveiling its multi-platform Perps Aggregator and plans for a Bitso Onchain token in 2026. 

Bitso confirmed the upcoming release of its Perps Aggregator, scheduled for Early Q1 2026. Unlike  typical interfaces that redirect traders to individual venues, Bitso’s aggregator is engineered as a true  execution layer across multiple onchain perpetual futures platforms. 

Paysafe, a leading payments platform, today announced its expanded partnership with Boosteroid, the world’s largest independent cloud gaming provider.

BENEFIT, the Bahraini innovator and a leading company in fintech and electronic financial transactions service, and Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider, headquartered in Singapore,  have partnered to launch cross-border QR payments between Bahrain’s BENEFIT QR payment scheme and Ant International’s global wallet gateway, Alipay+, during 2026 to support the transition to toward a more inclusive digital payments ecosystem.