Airwallex, a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, has acquired Paynuri Co. Ltd., an entity holding Payment Gateway and Prepaid Electronic Payment Instrument licenses as well as a Foreign Exchange Business registration, in South Korea. With these licenses, Airwallex can empower companies in Korea to expand and thrive across borders, while also helping businesses around the world to operate more seamlessly in this dynamic economic market. 

 As economic uncertainty continues to shape consumer behavior, chargebacks are becoming the norm, rather than the exception, in eCommerce. Today, disputes are so common that processing disputes has become a core business function. Disputes are also transforming all stakeholders of the payments industry, thereby redefining how issuers, acquirers and merchants manage risk and customer relations.

TrueLayer, Europe’s fastest-growing payments network, today announced the launch of Pay by Bank payments in Finland. The payment method will be available through Kustom Checkout, and is powered by Stripe. Kustom is the leading checkout solution in the Nordics, serving over 24,000 online merchants.

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.