The Payments Association

JULY 23, 2025

The cross-border payment platform has grown into a fully developed financial infrastructure with a robust acquiring solution—complete with a new name, logo, and color palette. Today, Maayan is not just a payments provider, but a trusted long-term partner in our customers’ growth.”

Global Payments

The Fintech Times

JULY 17, 2025

With the new licence, EximPe will enable compliant cross-border pay-ins and pay-outs for digital services, e-commerce, and B2B goods trade, and serve businesses across Asian emerging markets. This validation of our hard work reaffirms our commitment to building a robust cross-border payment infrastructure.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

MAY 29, 2025

This embedded capability allows merchants to: Accept payments in 140+ currencies Secure competitive FX rates Offer real-time pricing transparency at checkout Reduce currency risk and operational complexity Connect via a streamlined API By embedding this solution into Getnets acquiring services, merchants gain flexibility, improved revenue potential, (..)

Multi-Currency

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

It has been a busy few days for the Central Bank of Brazil as it announces another company has acquired a payment institution (PI) licence. Last week, PagBrasil acquired a PI licence to continue its PIX integration expansion.

Payments Institute

Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Zing members can now use multiple top-up tools , including mobile wallets, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, made possible by Checkout.com’s global digital payment integration. The announcement is part of a wider partnership through which Checkout.com will act as Zing’s primary global acquiring partner.

Alternative Payment Methods

Fintech News

JUNE 10, 2025

Deutsche Bank and Ant International have entered a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing cross-border payment services for businesses of all sizes in Europe and Asia. The agreement combines Deutsche Bank’s global network with Ant International’s digital payment technologies.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

JULY 8, 2025

Research on RS2 acquirer fee models shows that acquirers lose up to $3.65 The results show that acquiring operations need to be modernised right away because old fee structures are hurting margins and making them less competitive. PSPs and acquirers using RS2’s system can: Save up to €8.50

Acquirers

Fintech Finance

JULY 15, 2025

Payments are routed through acquirers, and choosing the most suitable one leads to increased authorisation and optimised costs. Worldline’s enhanced routing solution now leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse transaction data and select optimal payment routes in real time to further uplift conversion rates.

AI

The Fintech Times

JULY 10, 2025

As real-time payments take off, set to make up one in three transactions worldwide by 2030, a new whitepaper from RS2, a global payments technology provider, warns the industry is falling behind where it matters most: fee settlement.

Real Time Payments

Finovate

APRIL 8, 2025

Ripple will acquire Hidden Road for $1.25 The acquisition expands Ripple’s offerings beyond payments into trading, custody, and lending services, providing financial institutions the infrastructure they need for crypto adoption. First, it will help Ripple move beyond payments into full-scale financial services.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JULY 24, 2025

PXP’s powerful technology is already a proven force in global payments, supporting online, mobile, and in-store channels with a rich suite of features, including in-house global acquiring, fraud prevention, support for all primary payment methods (cards, digital wallets), and robust data analytics.

Cross-Border

Finovate

JUNE 6, 2025

Nomupay’s unified payment platform streamlines payment processes—including acquiring, treasury, and payouts—for businesses operating in fragmented, emerging markets. The partnership will enable TransferMate to provide in-country collections, cross-border payments, and local fund storage.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Antom: a leading merchant payment and digitisation services provider, offering one-stop, vertical-specific digital payment solutions to merchants of all sizes. Total payment volume (TPV) of Antoms direct acquiring services nearly doubled between January and November 2024 over same period of 2023.

Embedded Finance

Fintech Finance

JULY 8, 2025

“Our mission is to take the complexity out of payments and make it work for the merchant, not the other way around.” The launch of Orchestr global payments shows that more and more merchants want flexible, integrated payment orchestration across international markets. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.orchestr.com.

Global Payments

The Fintech Times

JULY 19, 2025

Businesses are now able to route payments globally using artificial intelligence (AI), following the launch of a new service by the payments services organisation Worldline. Payments are routed through acquirers, and choosing the most suitable one leads to increased authorisation and optimised costs.

AI

Finextra

JUNE 10, 2025

Home News Regulation Payments fintech Navro acquires first US licence Editorial This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community.

Acquirers

The Fintech Times

JUNE 11, 2025

Combining their expertise, Deutsche Bank will collaborate with Ant International’s Embedded Finance unit on a series of global treasury management and cross-border payment innovations, including tokenised deposits, stablecoin, and its Time-Series Transformer (TST) FX Model.

Cross-Border Payments

Finextra

JULY 22, 2025

Home News Payments Stripe buys payments API provider Orum Editorial This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Stripe buys payments API provider Orum Stripe has acquired payments orchestration firm Orum.

API

The Paypers

JUNE 4, 2025

dLocal has announced its intention to acquire AZA Finance , a fintech company specialising in cross-border payments and FX solutions in Africa.

Acquirers

The Fintech Times

MARCH 10, 2025

Airwallex , the global payments and financial platform for growing businesses, is set to acquire CTIN Pay , a Vietnam-based Intermediary Payment Service (IPS). By addressing financial challenges in these markets, we empower local businesses to expand beyond borders.

Acquirers

Fintech Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

LemFi – the international payments pioneer – is today announcing it has acquired UK credit fintech Pillar to accelerate their shared mission of empowering immigrant communities with fair, fast and accessible financial services.

Underserved

The Fintech Times

JULY 17, 2025

But the real story is in the infrastructure behind it: licensing, interoperability and a deep commitment to making cross-border payments work for everyone – not just the biggest players. Which means, acquiring the right licences and regulatory approvals. TerraPay now connects over 155 countries and 3.7

Cross-Border

Fintech Review

MAY 6, 2025

Company Overview: From Niche Provider to Global Checkout.com began as a cross-border payments solution focused on emerging e-commerce markets. Over time, it expanded into a full-service payment service provider, offering acquiring, processing, gateway, and fraud management services through a single, unified platform.

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech News

APRIL 8, 2025

where regulatory requirements are more fragmented across state and federal levels, Airwallex is likely to consider acquiring an existing bank to simplify the process of obtaining regulatory approval. In the U.S.,

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JANUARY 13, 2025

Across payments, many business models are impacted in different ways and to different extents, e.g. remittance, acquiring, and e-money. This inflexibility could hinder their ability to offer competitive, innovative solutions, such as multi-currency wallets or cross-border payment services.

Compliance

Finovate

JULY 11, 2025

Do Pay also creates a single provider for both pay-in and pay-out payment solutions thanks to leveraging its own proprietary infrastructure and direct connections with banks, acquirers, and local payment networks. Uruguay-based paytech dLocal announced plans to acquire Kenyan cross-border payments solutions provider AZA Finance.

Innovation

Clearly Payments

APRIL 8, 2025

Clearly Payments helps enterprises: Audit and map existing payment flows across systems, departments, and markets Design a modern, modular payments stack that supports both online and offline channels Integrate with new technologies , from tokenization to real-time payments and crypto Migrate legacy systems with minimal disruption Enable multi-currency (..)

Consulting

Finextra

JULY 21, 2025

require card networks and large acquirers to publish the fees they charge. The proposed reductions to interchange caps would benefit small businesses the most, as they tend to pay fees closer to the existing caps. Introducing caps on foreign interchange fees would help to lower fees for all businesses accepting international cards.

Caps

Stax

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Here are the inside details about what defines a payment solutions provider, how processing works, the credit card processing fees , risks, and more. They include: the merchant, cardholder, card associations, acquiring bank, issuing bank, and payment processor. Acquiring Bank: The business’ (i.e., merchant’s) bank.

Credit Cards

Finovate

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Haun Ventures led the Series B round, which also included participation fromCoinbaseVentures and existing investor Tiger Global.Notably, Haun Ventures is also an investor in stablecoin infrastructure startup Bridge, which was acquired by Stripe for over $1 billion in October of this year.

Stablecoins

Finextra

JULY 18, 2025

A solution for both sides of the payments flow For acquiring customers: Merchants using payabl.’s ’s acquiring solution can now offer SEPA Direct Debit as a customer payment method, ideal for subscription models, media services, and other recurring billing use cases. With payabl.

Cross-Border Payments

Finovate

JANUARY 17, 2025

. “We are pleased to work with Belvo to offer our clients in the country access to a best-in-class direct debit solution, providing higher transaction success rates, new features such as partial debit payments, and more efficient settlements,” Francisco Molina Viamonte, Head of Mexico for J.P. Morgan Payments said.

Cross-Border

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

One step closer to Pan-African expansion Zambian businesses aiming to access global markets will benefit from Flutterwaves cross-border payment solutions, which make it easier to collect payments from customers in the diaspora and conduct business on a global scale.

Financial Inclusion

Clearly Payments

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Basics of Payment Processing Payment processing involves multiple players, including: The Merchant The business accepting the payment. The Customer The person making the payment. The Payment Processor The company that facilitates transactions.

Small Business

Fintech Finance

MAY 7, 2025

dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), a leading cross-border payment platform for emerging markets, announces today an expanded relationship with PayPal to offer businesses access to payment processing and local payment methods in more than 40 new untapped emerging markets.

PayPal

Payments Dive

JULY 25, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search Retail Banking Restaurants Regulations & Policy Risk Technology B2B An article from Q&A How to build a B2B payments behemoth No single company dominates U.S. commercial payments, as with card networks or merchant acquirers.

B2B

Finextra

JULY 13, 2025

Corporate & Institutional Adoption Visa : Expanded its pilot to settle merchant cross-border payments in USDC, reducing intermediaries and costs. Stripe : Acquired Bridge for $1.1B They often convert their stablecoins into local currency via Pintu, Indodax, or VNDC. in 2024 to support USDC payouts .

Stablecoins