MoonPay, the global leader in crypto payments, today announced the launch of MoonPay Labs, an accelerator for early-stage Web3 technical founders. MoonPay Labs serves as a launchpad for high-potential teams, providing initial pre-seed capital, product, and UX guidance, and tailored go-to-market (GTM) support leading up to their next funding round.   

SEI® today announced that SEI Investments (Europe) Limited (SIEL) will partner with Ctrl Alt, a leading tokenisation platform, and participate in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The DSS aims to facilitate innovation in market infrastructure and protect financial stability and market integrity by evaluating blockchain and distributed ledger technology in a non-live environment.

DECTA, a leading provider of technical payment solutions, is excited to announce the launch of the DECTA Fintech Fast Track—a program designed to fast-track the journey of innovative fintech companies entering the card issuing and payment acquiring industry.

Klarna, the AI-powered payments and commerce network, is marking the one-year milestone of its first subscription service Klarna Plus, which on average has surpassed nearly 35,000 signups a month in the US since its launch in January 2024. 

JCB, Japan’s only international payment brand, and First Cash Solution, a leading integrated payment provider as a subsidiary of Volksbank eG – Die Gestalterbank, today announced a strategic partnership to significantly expand JCB Card acceptance throughout Germany. This collaboration has streamlined e-commerce transactions and expanded payment options for all merchants with J/SecureTM since its launch in 2024.

RedCompass Labs, the global experts in payments modernization, has today unveiled the world’s most comprehensive payments modernization-specific AI solution, AnalystAccelerator v2.5. Trained on the largest collection of payments rulebooks and scheme documents in the world and fine-tuned on decades of knowledge from leading payments experts, AnalystAccelerator 2.5 delivers cutting-edge applied AI models to help banks accelerate payments transformation.

Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, today announced the launch of its Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) Enterprise Volume Agreement (EVA), a new program that offers enterprises a cost-effective, scalable way to manage large-scale storage across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. Designed for customers with significant unstructured data footprints, the program aims to deliver dramatic cost savings, greater flexibility, and streamlined storage management.

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today announced its intention to expand its card issuing capabilities in the UAE, marking a first-of-its-kind investment by a global digital payment service provider in the region.  

Finastra, a global provider of financial services software applications, has announced a strategic partnership with Total Information Management Corporation (TIM Corp), a leader in data center services, managed services, and IT infrastructure. This collaboration aims to elevate treasury service challenges across the Philippines with Finastra’s cutting-edge Opics core treasury solution and robust managed services capabilities.