Mother’s Day brings one of the year’s biggest surges in family dining, with restaurants and pubs busier than usual as larger tables gather from morning through to the evening. Lloyds Merchant Services research suggests that on occasions like this, the final stages of service can play an important role in how smoothly the day runs when demand is high.

Paymentology, the leading global issuer-processor, today announces a partnership with Chikwama Pay, a pan-African neobank providing accessible financial services through WhatsApp. 

Together, they are powering Africa’s first WhatsApp-enabled neo-bank with fully integrated borderless payment processing, bringing secure, seamless, and affordable financial services to millions of underserved people across the Southern African Development Community (SADC). 

Across Africa, a quiet but powerful transformation is underway. Governments, regulators, and innovators have spent the past decade building the foundations of a more inclusive digital financial ecosystem, through investments in digital payments, digital identity systems, and modern data infrastructure.

Travel industry fintech Mint Payments has announced it has become an ABTA Partner, meeting the organisation’s strict requirements for suppliers to the UK travel industry.

Mint launched in the UK in 2025 with a clear vision of bringing specialist payment solutions to an underserved UK travel market, spearheaded by a strategic partnership with The Travel Network Group.

Temenos, a global leader in banking technology, today announced it has earned the Solutions Partner with certified software[ii] designation for Core Banking on Temenos SaaS within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.

This certified software designation validates that Temenos SaaS continues to meet the rigorous technical, security and interoperability standards set by Microsoft, meeting the program’s requirements and seamless interoperability with Microsoft Azure.

One Inc, the leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, today announced the appointment of fintech transformation leader Bryan Thompson as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With deep payments expertise, Thompson will lead the vision, strategy, and development of One Inc’s technology. He will oversee the company’s global IT roadmap, innovation initiatives, and enterprise security.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., global Fintech leader, today announced that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform processed an average of $362 billion in daily repo transactions during February, with volumes totaling $6.9 trillion. The daily average is a 457% increase year‑over‑year during the same month in 2025, reflecting continued institutional adoption of tokenized real-asset settlement at scale and the growing role of distributed ledger technology in modernizing repo and collateral markets.

Socure, the leading infrastructure for global identity and risk intelligence, announced today the appointment of Colton Pond as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In this role, Pond will oversee all aspects of Socure's global marketing strategy and execution as the company continues their 50%+ growth year over year and continues to solidify its position in defining identity infrastructure for the AI era.

docStribute®, a UK RegTech company specialising in regulated customer communications, today announces a strategic partnership with the Tipton & Coseley Building Society. 

The partnership reflects the Tipton’s continued focus on personalised service, deepening member engagement and meeting the requirements of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty. 

NCR Atleos Corporation, a leader in expanding self-service financial access for financial institutions, retailers and consumers, today announced a major service milestone: The company delivered 5.8 million hours of additional ATM availability to its customers in 2025 through aggressive quality improvements, AI‑enabled diagnostics and a company‑wide continuous improvement engine focused on driving uptime.