Akurateco, a cutting-edge white-label payment software provider, has announced a new integration with Whitepay, a leading cryptocurrency payment gateway. This collaboration allows all Akurateco customers – ranging from payment providers to acquirers and enterprise merchants – to start accepting crypto payments from their end users, offering new levels of flexibility at checkout.

Tandem Bank has today announced that David Shrimpton Davis has been named as the new Managing Director of its Motor Finance division. 

Shrimpton Davis brings with him deep rooted experience in leading and growing a motor finance business having formerly led Moneybarn – the successful motor finance arm of Vanquis Banking Group. 

The ClearScore Group, a global leader in financial marketplaces, is pleased to announce the appointment of Geeta Gopalan, who joined the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director, effective from 18 June 2025.

Silverflow, the new standard in payment processing, has partnered with payabl., a leading European financial technology provider, to upgrade its payments infrastructure and accelerate growth. The collaboration marks a significant shift to more agile, API-first technology, unlocking faster time-to-market, operational reliability and a shared vision for innovation.

Co-operative Bank, the only customer owned bank in New Zealand to share profits with its customers, has become the first bank in New Zealand to select 10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, to lead a multi-year project of core migration and digital transformation. The partnership will deliver leading core banking infrastructure for The Co-operative Bank (through a phased full-platform migration) which will position the bank for future growth and continue to enable better banking for its 180,000+ customers. 

You walk into a store, grab what you need, and tap your phone to pay. No lines, no fuss, no second thoughts. Or maybe you're shopping online, where product suggestions seem to read your mind and checkout takes just a few clicks. That frictionless experience isn’t magic, it’s AI. From tap-to-pay and biometric authentication to personalized recommendations and real-time fraud detection, artificial intelligence is quietly powering the evolution of checkout.

The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, today announced the release of a new research report from its Cross-Border Payments Work Group, sponsored by Mastercard, that explores how ISO 20022 messaging is enabling smarter, faster, and more inclusive cross-border payments.

We are now living in an “always-on” era. Constantly connected, we expect key services to be available 24/7. For financial service providers, this has heightened the pressure to develop digital assets – mobile apps, websites and online platforms – that can quickly satisfy customer needs. In the UK, for instance, it’s now the case that 40% of the adult population have digital-only bank accounts. 

Stavtar Solutions, a leading provider of business spend management and expense allocation SaaS for complex businesses such as alternative asset managers, today announced a Series A investment of $55 million from Elephant. The minority investment will fuel the next phase of expansion for the platform that has revolutionized how complex businesses are managing their business spend, expense allocations, vendors, contracts, budgets, payments, and more.