Mastercard has announced a strategic collaboration with Qlub, a leading fintech innovator in the hospitality sector, to advance digital and contactless payments across the GCC. This marks a significant step towards enhancing the digital payment landscape in the region by meeting the growing demand for seamless, technology-driven dining experiences.

Chargebacks911, a global leader in dispute prevention and remediation, announced Tuesday their strategic partnership with cside, an advanced client-side Intelligence provider. Together, the companies will help their merchants reduce chargebacks, prevent fraud, shore up website vulnerabilities and comply with ever-evolving industry requirements in real time, improving merchants’ overall customer experience.

1Money Co., the company behind the world’s first Layer 1 protocol purpose-built for Web3 payments, proudly announced it has secured a comprehensive suite of financial licenses across multiple jurisdictions, including 34 Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs) in the United States and a Class F Digital Asset Business license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

Quantiphi, an AI-first digital engineering company and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner, today announced the expansion of its Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS, strengthening the relationship and further enabling the companies to deliver enterprise-ready generative AI solutions at scale.

Paying employees in cryptocurrency is becoming more popular, with companies offering portions of employee salaries in crypto. And it’s easy to see why — payments in fiat can often be rigid, slow and expensive, particularly for a globally distributed workforce. However, payments made on the blockchain are fully transparent, revealing how much and how often each employee is paid, potentially creating dissatisfaction among coworkers.

Spinwheel, the agentic AI-powered credit data and payments platform, today announced a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. The funding will support Spinwheel’s continued go-to-market growth, expand its agentic AI platform, and build out its data sets and product offerings. In addition, Citi Ventures will advise Spinwheel on product use cases that matter most to the largest financial institutions.

AEON, the next generation crypto payment framework, has officially introduced its new Scan-to-Pay feature in Brazil via its Web3 mobile payment solution AEON Pay. Brazilian users can now simply scan merchants' PIX QR codes and complete purchases with their crypto assets, and AEON automatically settles the payment to merchants in Brazilian Real (BRL) via PIX, the nation's instant payment network.

Lead Bank, the industry-leading bank serving the world’s top fintechs and digital asset companies, today announced the close of its $70 million Series B fundraising round. The round included new investors, ICONIQ and Greycroft, as well as existing investors Ribbit Capital, Coatue, Khosla Ventures, Andreesen Horowitz, and Zeev Ventures. Lead’s post-money valuation is now $1.47 billion.

Gemini has unveiled a suite of new products for over 400 million European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) investors, including Gemini Staking for Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL), as well as Gemini Perpetuals, our regulated derivatives product. This continues our European expansion as we become the go-to crypto trading destination for European investors after receiving .