MetaComp Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Alpha Ladder Group Pte. Ltd. and a Major Payment Institution licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has successfully executed the first real-world cross-border payment using the patented CNT® Carbon Stablecoin framework.

Worldpay®, a global leader in payment technology, today announced they are partnering with Trulioo, the leading global digital identity platform, to introduce new safeguards for AI-powered agent-led commerce. This collaboration aims to bring trust, consent and accountability to the rapidly evolving landscape of digital payments driven by artificial intelligence.

Luminance, the pioneer of Legal-Grade™ AI for enterprise, today announced that leading Banking Services Provider, LHV, has adopted its technology to streamline and enhance contract workflows. As the business continues to scale, the legal team was facing growing volumes of agreements under tight deadlines. Manual review processes were time-consuming and prone to bottlenecks, which led the team to adopt Luminance to improve both accuracy and efficiency across their legal workflows.

Global Payments Inc., a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, today announced that the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning has selected it as payments provider for food and beverage, retail and ticketing, including for all events at AMALIE Arena in Tampa, Florida. This is the fourth National Hockey League team partnership for Global Payments.

EMVCo, the global technical body for the payments industry, has released a draft document describing an interoperable open payment solution for electric vehicle (EV) charging. All interested stakeholders are encouraged to provide their feedback on the draft by Wednesday 03 September.

The banking sector has always been at the forefront of technological innovations, and when robotic process automation (RPA) gained traction in the late 2010s, banks were among the first who implemented it. Aiming to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs, they were deploying software robots that mimic human actions to automate clerical, rule-based tasks, ranging from extracting data from invoices to setting up employee accounts in corporate systems.

Manchester United has today announced a multi-year agreement with Sokin, appointing the UK-headquartered fintech company as the club's Official Global Business Payment Solutions Partner.

The latest credit card market data from global analytics software leader FICO shows how rising spend and falling payments to balance are continuing to push up average balances. Increased spending follows expected seasonal trends, but the percentage of balance paid continues to trend downwards, which will be a concern for lenders.

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Bank Aston, the new Guernsey-based bank for offshore trustees, investment funds and family offices, has appointed experienced banking professionals and Guernsey residents Claire Whittet and Roy McGregor as its first Non-Executive Directors (NEDs).

Bank Aston was launched in June 2025 having been granted a banking licence by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC), making it Guernsey’s first locally-licensed bank in a generation. It is currently building out its products and services and plans to onboard its first customers in the first half of 2026.