Mesta Secures $5.5 Million Seed Round To Redefine Cross-Border Payments
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Fundraising News
Mesta, the Global fiat + Stablecoin Payment Network, today announced it has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Village Global, with participation from Circle Ventures, Paxos, and WTI - Western Technology Investment. Existing backers including Garuda Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Everywhere Ventures, and Inventum Ventures also reaffirmed their support.
Nexi And RBNZ Successfully Upgrade New Zealand’s RTGS System To Meet Swift Standards
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Nexi, the European PayTech, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) – Te Pūtea Matua, have successfully upgraded New Zealand’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, known as ESAS, ensuring alignment with the latest Swift regulatory and messaging protocols.
CGI Partners With Barclays To Integrate Multi-Bank Trade Finance Platform
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Trading Systems
CGI, one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced its partnership with Barclays to integrate CGI Trade360, CGI’s global trade finance solution, with Konsole from Komgo, the largest multi-bank trade finance platform. The integrated solution will provide Barclays with more transparency, increased transaction speed, reduced manual entry and reduced operating risk.
PhotonPay Partners With Thredd To Enhance Card Infrastructure
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Payments
PhotonPay, an AI-powered financial infrastructure platform, has entered a strategic partnership with
Nium Launches Global Collections To Power Cross-Border Collections For Banks
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the launch of Global Collections for banks, a new solution designed to allow banks to offer local currency receivables to their customers in multiple countries.
Brex Announces Launch Of Stablecoin Payment
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Brex, the intelligent finance platform, announced today the upcoming launch of native stablecoin payments. This will make Brex the first global corporate card to enable instant balance payments with stablecoins. With this launch, customers with a Brex business account will be able to accept stablecoins with automatic conversion into USD in their Brex business accounts and send stablecoins directly from their USD balances. In addition, Brex...
Nuvei Launches First AI Integration Agent To Accelerate Client Onboarding
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Nuvei today announced the launch of its AI-powered Integration Agent, a new solution that enables merchants and partners to connect to its global payments infrastructure in hours instead of weeks. By dramatically simplifying technical integration, the launch advances Nuvei’s strategy to embed AI across the payments lifecycle, helping businesses go live faster, reduce costly errors, and access optimization tools that accelerate revenue growth.
Chainlink Advances Tokenized Fund Workflows With Swift Messaging In Collaboration With UBS
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Chainlink announced today a landmark technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows directly from their existing systems using Swift messaging and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE). With Swift messages and CRE, banks and institutions can seamlessly access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied upon for decades.
Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar To Support A New Business Model For The AI-Driven Internet
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web. NET Dollar will help power a new business model for the Internet that rewards originality, sustains creativity, and enables innovation in an AI-driven world.
Yeeld And WealthKernel Team Up To Simplify Money Management And Investing
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Management
WealthKernel, a digital investing infrastructure provider, today announces a partnership with Yeeld, an AI-powered financial assistant built to make money management simple and accessible.
Nubank Applies For U.S. National Bank Charter
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Banking
Nubank, one of the world's largest digital financial services platforms, announced today that it has applied for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) of the United States. This undertaking is aligned with the company’s intention to explore future international opportunities by evolving its regional platform into a global model. Pursuing a U.S. national bank charter positions Nubank to unlock new...
BBVA Partners With Mastercard And Sabre Direct Pay To Transform Travel Agency Payments In Mexico
- 9 months 1 week ago
- Payments
BBVA, in a further show of its commitment to offering innovative payment solutions, has launched a new virtual card product in Mexico alongside Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Sabre Direct Pay, Sabre Corporation’s (NASDAQ: SABR) virtual payment solution. This innovative offering in Mexico enables travel agencies to issue secure virtual card numbers (VCNs) for each payment. This improves control, integrates with backend reconciliation tools, and...
Worldline Appoints New Head Of Financial Services
- 9 months 1 week ago
- People Moves
Worldline, a global leader in payment services, has named Madalena Cascais Tomé as Head of Financial Services division and Executive Committee member, effective on 1 October 2025.
DailyPay Appoints Accomplished Technology And Product Leader Poulomi Damany As Chief Product Officer
- 9 months 1 week ago
- People Moves
DailyPay, the leading On-Demand Pay platform and financial wellness solution, has appointed Poulomi Damany as its Chief Product Officer where she will be responsible for unifying and optimizing our product segment at DailyPay. Damany will report to Stacy Greiner, Chief Executive Officer, DailyPay.
Equifax Appoints Technology And Analytics Leader David Bernard As General Manager, UK&I, To Accelerate Growth And Innovation
- 9 months 1 week ago
- People Moves
Equifax UK, a leading credit reference agency, has appointed David Bernard as its new General Manager for the UK and Ireland. This strategic appointment highlights the Equifax commitment to expanding its market leadership and innovation in the region.
