Mastercard Completes Acquisition of BVNK to Advance Global Stablecoin Capabilities
- 56 min 5 sec ago
- Payments
Mastercard today completed its acquisition of BVNK, expanding the company’s strategy to support greater choice in how people and businesses exchange value by enabling interoperability across fiat and digital currencies.
Dune Now Accepts Stablecoin Payments via Stripe
- 1 hour 5 sec ago
- Payments
Dune is one of the first companies in the EU to accept stablecoin payments via Stripe. Enterprise customers can now pay for Dune's data products and APIs in stablecoins, fully auditable onchain. For enterprises that already hold stablecoins on their balance sheet, it removes friction from an existing workflow. No FX conversion. No wires. Every payment posts onchain with a full audit trail.
Western Union Launches Stablecard in Partnership with Rain
- 1 hour 9 min ago
- Cryptocurrencies
The Western Union Company and Rain, today announced the launch of Stablecard by Western Union, a digital wallet and USDPT-backed Visa secured credit card designed to enable consumers to hold, move and spend U.S. dollar value globally.
Unlimit Supports the Digitalisation of Mexico’s Education Sector Through Partnership with Mattilda
- 2 hours 41 min ago
- Payments
Unlimit, the global financial infrastructure powering the borderless agentic economy, is supporting the digitalisation of payments in Mexico’s education sector through its partnership with Mattilda, an edtech company that automates tuition fee collection and provides financing solutions.
Stitch Advances Real-Time Payments in South Africa with PayShap Request, Backed by Redundancy and Smart Routing Infrastructure
- 4 hours 18 min ago
- Payments
South Africa-based payments infrastructure company Stitch is live with PayShap Request, offering enterprise businesses a fast, secure and reliable way to collect payments in real time across all major South African banks. Several Stitch enterprise clients have already switched to RTP (real time payments) rails.
Data Energy Selects GoCardless’ Recurring Pay by Bank to Automate Utility Billing
- 4 hours 26 min ago
- Payments
Data Energy, a leading independent heat network specialist, has chosen bank payment company GoCardless and its open banking-powered Recurring Pay by Bank solution to upgrade its payments.
Conferma Launches the First Global Benchmark for Hotel Payment Performance
- 4 hours 36 min ago
- Payments
Virtual cards have become standard in corporate travel. But until now, the industry has lacked a clear way to measure how reliably those payments are processed at hotel level. Today, Conferma announces the launch of the Virtual Card Performance Index (VPI) — alongside its first global benchmark report — creating the industry’s first objective standard for hotel payment performance.
Visa to Acquire BioCatch
- 22 hours 54 min ago
- Payments
Visa today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BioCatch, a leading provider of behavioral-first, multi-signal fraud intelligence, from funds advised by Permira and other shareholders for $2.4 billion in cash. The acquisition of BioCatch complements Visa’s existing cyber, fraud, risk and security solutions and is expected to help clients better protect themselves and their customers from the growing threat of account... more
Worldline Announces the Finalisation of the Sale of Its Indian Payment Activities to BillDesk
- 1 day 57 min ago
- Payments
Worldline , a European leader in payment services, announces it has completed the divestment of its Indian payment activities to BillDesk, a top-tier Indian payments leader for an estimated equity value of c.€60m.
PayPal Is Now Live on Rootline
- 1 day 1 hour ago
- Payments
Partners and merchants on Rootline can now offer PayPal through the same API they already use. Platforms get it across their entire merchant base without writing new code. At checkout, it's another way to pay, sitting next to other payment methods. Behind it, PayPal lands in the same Rootline settlement and reconciles in one place, with refunds, cancellations, and disputes handled through the same tools.
Teya Launches Next-Generation Card Machine That Completes Transactions in 1.7 Seconds
- 1 day 4 hours ago
- Payments
Teya, the financial services provider supporting local businesses across Europe, today launches a new payments card machine that completes the majority of sales in 1.7 seconds - then instantly transfers money to sellers’ accounts.
Heifer, Mastercard and KCB Launch Digital Payments Initiative for Dairy Farmers
- 3 days 22 hours ago
- Payments
Heifer International Kenya, Mastercard, KCB Foundation and KCB Bank Kenya have launched the Farmer Visibility Project, a collaborative initiative designed to digitize transactions, improve access to financial services and markets and support digital payments for smallholder dairy farmers. The collaboration brings together agriculture, finance, and digital technology partners to help address long-standing payment and financing challenges in Kenya... more
Comdata Launches Pay Codes, Advancing Its Longstanding Commitment to Protecting Fleets and Drivers
- 3 days 22 hours ago
- Payments
Comdata today announced the launch of Pay Codes across locations nationwide, the latest innovation in Comdata's continued commitment to protecting fleets, simplifying fuel payments, and keeping drivers moving.
Payabli Brings Intelligence to Every Layer of Embedded Payments
- 4 days 1 hour ago
- Payments
Payabli, the leading embedded payments and fintech infrastructure company, today announced a new generation of intelligent capabilities across its entire payments platform. Unlike other standalone AI payment solutions, Payabli architected intelligence into the foundation of its infrastructure from the ground up, training its own models on payments data to power every layer of the platform.
CaixaBank Successfully Tests a Project Agorá Cross-Border Transaction Using Tokenised Deposits and Reserves
- 4 days 1 hour ago
- e-Payments
CaixaBank has successfully completed a euro-denominated cross-border payment transaction using tokenised deposits and tokenised central bank reserves as part of the real value testing (RVT) phase of Project Agorá, a collaborative initiative exploring the future of wholesale cross-border payments through tokenisation.
