Circle Internet Group, Inc. and OKX have partnered to deepen liquidity for both USD-to-USDC and USDC-to-USD conversions, making USDC more accessible to OKX’s 60+ million global customers. Through this partnership, customers will be able to easily convert between USD into USDC and back on a 1:1 basis across OKX products and services.

Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure API, today announced its intended acquisition of WealthKernel, a wealthtech firm specializing in digital investment infrastructure and tax-advantaged products. This strategic acquisition will bring WealthKernel’s UK and EU licensed brokerage infrastructure to Alpaca, supporting their rapid global expansion to achieve its mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet.

Worldline, a global leader in payment services, has announced a strategic partnership with commercetools, the most versatile platform for enterprise commerce innovation. This partnership enables commercetools customers to seamlessly integrate Worldline’s comprehensive suite of payment services.

Paysafe, a leading payments platform, is expanding its presence in Peru by evolving PagoEfectivo, its locally successful eCash brand, into a digital wallet. The PagoEfectivo wallet, the brand’s first in Latin America, enables users to instantly load funds, make online purchases, receive immediate payouts from participating merchants, transfer money to others, and pay using a code (CIP). 

Flagstone, the UK’s largest savings platform, is pledging its commitment to Cash ISA savers with plans to launch as many as ten Cash ISA products for savers in time for the 2025/26 ISA season (running January to 5 April 2026). 

Flagstone’s announcement comes as new research** shows that: 

Deutsche Bank has gone live with Swift’s Instant Cash Reporting (ICR) – a new, API-driven  solution that enables large corporate and financial institutions to access real-time account  and balance information with a single, standardized connection.  

Today Ripple, the leading provider of digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions, announced it has selected The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation , a global financial services company, for the primary custody of Ripple USD (RLUSD) reserves.

Rain, a leading provider of earned wage access (EWA) solutions, today announced the launch of the first fully embedded on-demand pay integration within Workday.

Payfinia, an independent payment services firm providing an open payments framework, announced today its partnership with Early Warning Services to offer Paze SM, an online checkout solution developed by Early Warning Services and offered by participating banks and credit unions. Star One Credit Union, one of the nation’s largest credit unions with more than $9 billion in assets, is the first financial institution onboarding Paze through Payfinia.