Bahrain Commercial Facilities Company (BCFC), in a strategic partnership with Mastercard, is set to transform Bahrain’s commercial payments landscape with the introduction of its Commercial Cards Program for companies, corporations, and small and medium-sized businesses.

Global financial technology leader FIS® has today announced another milestone in its drive to make secure open banking more accessible to its clients and their customers.

Bitso —the leading financial services company powered by crypto in Latin America— released the first edition of its Crypto Landscape in Latin America: Report H2 2023, in which it reveals the importance that the use of blockchain and crypto assets have gained, both in the region and locally.

iDenfy, a Lithuania-based RegTech company best known for its full-stack ID verification service, announced a new partnership with RaiseFX, a prominent player in the online CFD broker sector. This partnership will help RaiseFX create a user-friendly ID verification workflow, enabling users to access trading and investment opportunities in seconds. 

Global payment orchestration platform FinMont has announced a new partnership with leading B2B payments platform ConnexPay. Through this new alliance, FinMont is adding ConnexPay’s innovative all-in-one payments solution to its travel orchestration platform.

IDEX Biometrics and KONA I are partnering to deploy biometric payment and access cards in Japan. With credit card fraud reported by Japanese companies increasing by 30% year over year to USD 294 million, banks in the market are showing interest in biometric smartcard solutions, especially metal cards.

Pennylane raises €40M from Sequoia Capital and DST Global, reflecting very strong growth over the past two years. The company has multiplied by 40 the number of VSE-SMEs on its platform in 24 months thanks to the adoption of the tool by more than 2,000 accounting firms who have brought their clients on board.

Flywire Corporation, a global payments enablement and software company, today announced that it has partnered with State Bank of India, India’s largest public sector bank, to enable Indian payers to seamlessly and digitally pay international education-related fees in their local currency (Indian Rupees) to higher education institutions all over the world.

MX Technologies, Inc. today announced MX's data enhancement services will be leveraged as part of Trustly's Open Banking product suite. Over 8,300 global merchants rely on Trustly to enable their consumers to pay directly from their bank accounts. With Pay with Bank, consumers enjoy an intuitive, fast, and safe payment method, while merchants can create better experiences and reduce costs with an efficient payment solution.