Acquired.com, a payments infrastructure provider for recurring commerce, today announces a partnership with Visa in the UK to bring to market Visa A2A, a new account-to-account payment solution, designed specifically for recurring and variable payments. The collaboration introduces an alternative to Direct Debit and card-on-file, designed to deliver a smarter way to make recurring payments.

Atlas Invest, a leader in commercial real estate lending, today announced $25M in funding led by BlackRock, enabling the innovative startup to expand access to institutional-quality, real estate debt investments. By combining proprietary AI technology, data-driven processes across sourcing, underwriting, and servicing with rigorous risk-adjusted practices, Atlas is redefining how private credit investors access, engage with, and scale real estate debt investments nationwide.

Blackhawk Network (BHN), a global leader in branded payments, today announced it is expanding the availability of digital gift cards to PayPal users. Giftcards.com—a BHN company—is now offering consumers 5% cashback when they opt-in and purchase gift cards using their PayPal wallet.* 

Discovery Federal Credit Union (‘Discovery’) has chosen Mahalo’s Thoughtful Banking® platform to modernize its digital banking experience and provide members with a more secure, flexible, and accessible way to manage finances across online and mobile channels. After completing an extensive and competitive digital banking evaluation, Mahalo was unanimously chosen over all other providers, standing out for its modern architecture, deep core integration, and member-centric approach.

Fimple, a leading provider of composable, cloud-native core banking software, has successfully completed a USD 10m investment round to further accelerate its international expansion with a strategic focus across the MENA region and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) markets. The round was led by Ak Asset Management VC Fund, with participation from existing investors including DN Capital and Smartfin, following the company’s USD 12m Series A financing completed in February 2025.

TreviPay announces the launch of its Pay by Invoice solution for Visa-issuing banks, enabling issuers to capture a greater share of the $58 trillion North American B2B payments market. Through this collaboration with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, TreviPay’s order-to-cash automation technology combines with Visa’s commercial payment capabilities to help issuers move fragmented B2B spend into strategic, issuer-financed, invoice-based transactions.

The 26th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum takes place on 12 November 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas. The forum brings together senior executives from banking, payments, regulatory technology, compliance, and financial services to examine developments shaping digital payments and regulatory operations across the US market.

The 25th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum takes place on 15 October 2026 at the Marriott Hotel in Athens, Greece. The forum brings together senior executives from banking, payments, regulatory technology, compliance, and financial services to examine developments shaping digital payments and regulatory operations across Greece and Europe.