Travel industry fintech Mint Payments has launched in the UK to fix the broken travel payments market, spearheaded by a strategic partnership with The Travel Network Group.

Founded in Sydney, Mint is the leading travel payments provider in Australia and New Zealand processing more than AUD $3.5bn (£1.7bn) in transactions annually.

SavvyMoney, an industry leader of financial wellness and growth solutions, today announced a $225 million minority investment co-led by PSG and Canapi Ventures, with continued investment from Spectrum Equity. The investment will accelerate SavvyMoney’s product roadmap and go-to-market investments, enabling the company to better serve its core community of over 1,500 financial institutions.

European financial technology provider payabl. has launched its point-of-sale (POS) solution in the UK, helping merchants deliver fast, reliable, and secure in-person payments as part of a unified experience across channels.

Recent research finds that frequent software release cycles and shorter IT lead times are among the most powerful levers for revenue growth. Across industries, delivery speed has become a decisive factor for competitiveness. To stay ahead of the competition without sacrificing quality, Bradesco Seguros, the largest insurance group in Brazil and Latin America, turned to Wynxx.

A recent social post caught my eye. The person posting had tried to prompt AI to generate a photo of a race marshal in a pink high-visibility jacket - their running group needed more marshals to staff a forthcoming race, and they wanted a photo to make their post stand out.  But a typo and an (incorrect) autocorrect led the AI platform to generate various cheerful photos of a smiling face not on a race marshal, but on a marshmallow – in pink high-vis.

Ayan Capital, a leader in B2B Shariah-compliant car finance, has officially secured authorisation from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to enter into regulated consumer credit agreements as a lender. This marks a major milestone in its plan to provide a digitally-enabled Islamic finance ecosystem.

Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, today announced a strategic investment in R2, the leading embedded lending infrastructure company in Latin America (LATAM), to expand access to credit for SMEs across the region.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, has unveiled five startups set to redefine the future of finance at its highly anticipated Startup Media Session during Money20/20 USA.

Kueski, Mexico’s leading Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform, announced a strategic partnership with dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), the leading cross-border payments platform connecting global merchants with emerging markets. 

Worldpay®, a global leader in payment technology, today announced its support for the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open standard for AI commerce that lets AI agents, people, and businesses work together to complete purchases.