With the average UK household owing around £65,000, and total UK household debt exceeding £2.1 trillion, the need for effective financial support has never been more apparent. Traditional indicators of financial difficulty, such as late payments or high levels of credit use, can often fail to capture the earliest signs of distress.

Zimpler, a leading Swedish company in Pay-by-bank solutions, has become a certified Payment Institution (PI) in Brazil, authorized by the Central Bank. Now Zimpler is allowed to facilitate payments and other Open Finance ecosystem resources, streamlining the checkout process and reducing friction by allowing direct transactions without redirecting users to bank apps. This movement solidifies Zimpler’s plans and structure in Brazil.

Fasten, a leader in driver rewards and customer loyalty solutions for car dealerships, today announced its participation in Visa’s prestigious Fintech Fast Track program. The company’s flagship product, the Fasten Rewards™ Visa Card, enables drivers to earn rewards on significant auto-related expenses1 like monthly car lease and loan payments, which average $12,000 annually for American drivers.

Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI Platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies, has been named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. This marks the second consecutive year that Domino has been recognised as a Visionary. The Magic Quadrant Report evaluated 16 vendors based on their Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, with Domino being positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant amongst other vendors.

Worldline, a global leader in payment services is ready to launch the new Wero payment method, enabling eMerchants to accept it in Germany from this summer onwards. Wero for eCommerce will subsequently be launched in Belgium in October 2025 and in France in early 2026. 

OatFi, the API-first fintech infrastructure company modernizing how B2B payments are financed, today announced it has raised a $24 million Series A led by White Star Capital, with continued participation from existing investors Portage and QED.

Imprint, the leading provider of modern co-branded credit cards, today announced the appointment of Will Larson as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Larson will lead Imprint’s engineering team and all technology development across the company, including ongoing advancements in Imprint’s proprietary cloud-based credit card and banking platform and the continued development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning across the company and platform.

N2F, a leading provider of spend management software, today announced that it has secured a growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity firm with a strong track record of investing in high-growth enterprise and financial technology companies. The partnership will drive N2F’s next phase of expansion, with a focus on accelerating product innovation, deepening AI capabilities, and scaling internationally.

FIS®, a global leader in financial technology, today announced that ATLAS SP Partners (ATLAS), a leading provider of structured and asset-backed credit to institutional borrowers and institutional investors, has chosen FIS’ Commercial Loan Servicing solution to help power ATLAS’ loan lifecycle processing workflows.

Bank payment company GoCardless announces the launch of Outbound Payments, a significant expansion of its platform that will enable merchants to send money directly to customers, suppliers, and third parties via GoCardless.