Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has officially enabled Tap to Pay on iPhone in nine new markets: Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

UK-based payments company myPOS is introducing Tap to Pay on iPhone for businesses in Switzerland, Hungary, Portugal, and Bulgaria. Tap to Pay on iPhone is available within the myPOS Glass app and allows merchants to accept all forms of contactless payments directly on their iPhone, including contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets, with no additional hardware.

Equifax UK has launched a new suite of solutions for commercial lenders, drawing on its fully cloud-native commercial data platform to help clients meet key business challenges with speed and agility.

The Business Intelligence Suite™ harnesses cloud-hosted Commercial Credit Data Sharing and Insight attributes across a range of products to help Equifax UK clients make better decisions throughout the commercial customer lifecycle. The suite of solutions includes:

Visa, a global leader in payment technology, today unveiled its scam disruption practice focused on identifying and stopping complex scams as they emerge.

The new department, which sits under Visa Payment Ecosystem Risk and Control (PERC), saved victims $350 million (€335 million) across dozens of scams last year. This is in addition to the $40 billion (€39 billion) PERC blocked in attempted fraud on the Visa network last year.

Finastra today announced that the successful implementation of Finastra Kondor and cloud-based managed services provided by DXC Technology, a leading Fortune 500 global technology services provider, enabled Vision Bank, a Sharia-compliant, digital bank in Saudi Arabia, to launch the pilot phase of its banking operations.

Capital on Tap, a leading all-in-one small business credit card and spend management platform, has selected bank payment company GoCardless to provide Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) through its open banking feature, Instant Bank Pay. This expands a relationship which began in 2014, when Capital on Tap first selected GoCardless for Direct Debit.  

Global online platform, Temu, known for offering value-for-money products, has expanded its strategic partnership with digital payment provider Checkout.com to improve how customers pay for their orders. Checkout.com has been working with Temu since its launch in 2022, helping process payments worldwide. 

Viva.com, the 1st Tech Bank in Europe for businesses, enables Tap to Pay on iPhone in Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Poland, and Portugal. With just an iPhone and Viva.com's Terminal iOS app, local businesses can seamlessly and securely accept all forms of contactless payments - including contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets.

New insights from Experian today reveal the rise of ‘synthetic fraud’ in the UK.

Analysis of confirmed fraudulent and potentially fraudulent credit applications shows that there was an increase of 60% in false identity cases in 2024 when compared to 2023, with the cases now making up nearly a third (29%) of all identity fraud cases.

An historic milestone will be achieved, where payment executives from around the globe have gathered to witness the world’s first online card-present payment. This groundbreaking advancement brings tap and PIN—the globally familiar, simple, and universally trusted way to pay—into the online world for the first time, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of payment technologies.