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PSR’s Annual Report Shows a Year of Significant Milestones

Fintech Finance

The PSR Annual Report shows that the UK has made progress in regulating payments over the past year. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) says that it has made progress in fighting APP fraud, making faster payments more available, and making card fees more clear. All of these things are meant to build trust, safety, and competition. The payments industry is highly dynamic and evolves at pace, making it essential that the PSR adopts a strategic approach for everything it does.

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BlueSnap’s Channel Partner Program Is Surging

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

From a Press Release dated July 8, 2025, Boston, Massachusetts & London, England BlueSnap, a global payment orchestration platform serving B2B and B2C businesses, has announced remarkable growth (137%) in its Channel Partner Program since its launch in September 2024. The program has expanded to include 41 system integrators worldwide, with 11 new partners joining recently, reflecting a strong market demand for seamless and scalable global payment solutions.

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Eftsure Joins Nacha as Preferred Partner to Strengthen ACH Payment Security

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

From a Press Release dated July 2, 2025, Reston, VA Eftsure, a global leader in payment fraud prevention, has been named a Nacha Preferred Partner, joining a select group of technology providers recognized for advancing the ACH Network. Eftsure is designated as a Preferred Partner in three critical categories: Account Validation, Fraud Monitoring, and Risk and Fraud Prevention.

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Real-Time Payments Demand Real-Time Fees, Says RS2 Whitepaper

The Fintech Times

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. While consumers embrace the speed and convenience of instant payments, many acquirers and payment service providers (PSPs), the companies that help merchants accept payments, continue to rely on outdated, end-of-day systems that eat into margins and cost them revenu

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Juniper: Contactless payment transaction values to double by 2030

NFCW

Global contactless payment transaction values will increase from US$7.7tn in 2025 to US$18.1tn in 2030, a rise of 106%, market analysts Juniper Research predict. NFC ticketing and the arrival of open NFC wallets on Apple devices will be the two key growth drivers, the analysts say. “The fastest growing contactless payment mechanism driving this expansion is Near-field Communication (NFC) ticketing; projected to grow by 300% over the next five years,” they say. “NFC ticketing en

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Real-Time Payments and the Future of Cross-Border Transactions: What Businesses Need to Know

Finextra

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How we built it: Jurisdiction resolution for Stripe Tax

Stripe

Stripe’s users rely on us to calculate tax correctly and quickly, no matter where a transaction happens. Our new jurisdiction resolution system (JRS) is a faster, less resource-intensive solution to the challenging problem of determining tax obligations in places with complicated, overlapping tax jurisdictions.

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dLocal Launches The 2025 Emerging Markets Payments Handbook: The Blueprint to Lead Across the Global South

Fintech Finance

dLocal , the leading cross-border payment platform specializing in emerging markets, today announced the release of the second edition of its “Emerging Markets Payments Handbook.” This comprehensive guide is meticulously curated for international businesses, blending deep data analysis with authentic, on-the-ground insights to provide the understanding needed to expand into the world’s fastest-growing economies, especially given their projection to drive 65% of global growth by

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New payment platform QwikPay launches in Australia

Finextra

Australia's newest and most disruptive payment platform has officially launched, with QwikPay promising to eliminate the friction, fees and outdated infrastructure that have long held back innovation in the way Australian consumers pay and businesses get paid.

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Financial Crime 360 state of the industry report 2025

The Payments Association

Financial Crime 360 state of the industry report 2025 15 July 2025 by Payments Intelligence Survey overview 158 financial crime professionals surveyed Global reach with UK focus Commissioned by The Payments Association Focus: financial crime challenges, technology adoption, and regulatory adaptation The Financial Crime 360 2025 survey captures perspectives from across the global financial crime prevention ecosystem, with particular strength in the UK market that represents the core of European f

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Diverse E-Commerce Payment Acceptance For US & Canadian Merchants: Finix Launches WooCommerce Plugin

The Fintech Times

Merchants, both big and small, across the US and Canada will now have the ability to easily accept payments, reduce operational friction and offer a consistent checkout experience following a new partnership between Finix , the payment processor, and WooCommerce , the customisable, open-source e-commerce platform built on WordPress. The partnership will see Finix launch its official plugin for WooCommerce.

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Automating Chargeback Management: First Steps & Best Practices

Fi911

Chargeback volumes have increased 25% annually over the past three years, pushing financial institutions to reconsider their manual processing approaches. With each dispute costing between $25 and $50 to process manually, automation has shifted from a nice-to-have to a business necessity for many organizations. The traditional approach — teams of analysts reviewing disputes, gathering documentation, and crafting responses — struggles to keep pace with growing volumes.

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Cobre Becomes the First Platform to Enable Real-Time Interbank B2B Payments in Colombia

Fintech Finance

The launch of Cobre Real-Time B2B Payments Colombia is a first for the country. It lets businesses in Colombia do interbank transactions right away. Cobre’s new platform is changing the way payments work in Colombia by providing businesses with real-time B2B settlement through a secure and scalable infrastructure. As a long-time advocate of financial digitalization in Colombia, Cobre will accelerate the adoption of the new interoperable real-time payment system for businesses under the Bre

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Highnote adds instant payment capabilities

Finextra

Highnote, the unified platform for embedded finance and modern card issuance, today announced the launch of Instant Payments, a new capability that enables businesses to deliver near real-time payouts from Highnote-issued cards to eligible external debit and prepaid cards.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Beyond the Card: Your Checklist for Future-Proof Card Issuing

Fintech News

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the leading private banks in Latin America made a strategic move: it began replacing its legacy card issuing system in a bold shift toward digital-first issuing. That investment was quickly put to the test when later, during times of lockdown, the bank was tasked with issuing one million prepaid cards for a nationwide financial aid initiative.

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Payment Outages – What You Can Do

Cardfellow

There are a number of reasons that you might find yourself unable to take credit card payments at your business. Maybe you have an issue with the machine itself, your internet goes out, or the payment network itself goes down. (It’s happened!) For small businesses, even short amounts of downtime mean lost revenue and unhappy customers. You still have sales to make, but these days many customers don’t carry cash.

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Finovate Global Peru: Digital Wallet Partnerships and Innovations in Payment Services

Finovate

This week’s edition of Finovate Global looks at recent fintech headlines from the South American nation of Peru. EBANX partners with Peruvian digital wallet Yape Brazilian payments company EBANX announced a direct integration with Peruvian digital wallet, Yape. Designed for cross-border commerce and relying on an easy user enrollment process, Yape enables users to pay for purchases on international ecommerce websites using either their Yape wallet balance or a linked card.

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PashaPay Partners with Mastercard Under MOU at Money 20/20 Europe to Enhance Strategic Collaboration

Fintech Finance

The Pashapay Mastercard partnership was formalized at Money 20/20 Europe through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), marking a new milestone in fintech collaboration. This Pashapay Mastercard collaboration aims to accelerate digital payment innovation globally, with both parties leveraging each other’s networks and technology. The strategic alliance seeks to deepen collaboration between Mastercard and PashaPay in: Collaborating on cybersecurity, digital identity, and fraud

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Top Strategies to Future-Proof & Sustain Your Merchant Services Portfolio

Build a sustainable merchant services portfolio with practical strategies to ensure long-term success. Diversify across industries to spread risk and stabilize income, balancing high-risk and low-risk clients for a robust mix. Combine large and small merchants to create a resilient payment portfolio, leveraging each type's strengths. Foster long-term relationships through exceptional service and personalized support.

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Deutsche Bank goes live with Swift Instant Cash Reporting

Finextra

Deutsche Bank has gone live with Swift’s new API-driven Instant Cash Reporting (ICR) tool for accessing real-time account and balance information with a single, standardised connection.

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FV Bank Rolls Out Virtual Account Identifiers to Automate Payment Attribution

The Fintech Times

FV Bank, a US-licensed digital bank serving small and medium-sized enterprises, has launched a new Virtual Account feature to tackle a major operational challenge in global payments: attributing high volumes of incoming transactions quickly and accurately. The new tool enables businesses to assign unique account numbers to individual clients or counterparties, automating reconciliation and reducing manual errors.

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India to take the lead in SoftPOS adoption?

NFCW

“India’s SoftPOS market is set to outpace global averages, driven by government initiatives, UPI integration, and a robust fintech ecosystem,” Worldline India reports in a new study which also predicts that more than half of all transactions in the Asia-Pacific region will be contactless this year. “The Indian government’s $1.2bn support program for digital payment solutions, including SoftPOS, is accelerating adoption among small businesses, kirana stores, and service provider

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JPMorgan Chase to Charge Data Aggregators for Consumer Data Access: What It Means for US Open Banking

Finovate

Late last week, news was released that has the potential to disrupt the trajectory of open banking in the US. JPMorgan Chase has been in discussions with data aggregators, telling them that it plans to charge them to access customer data. Traditionally, data aggregators like Plaid , Finicity , and MX have been able to access consumer banking data at no cost by using login credentials provided through third-party services.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Weavr Teams Up with Visa to Enhance Embedded Payments in the Expanding Global Employee Benefits Sector

Fintech Finance

Weavr , the embedded finance company, has announced their Associate Membership with Visa , a global leader in digital payments. As a Visa Associate Member and one of its embedded finance partners in Europe, Weavr is now empowering SaaS companies to integrate Visa-powered financial products into their platforms, focusing initially on the rapidly growing sector of employee benefits.

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Genome and Huch partner for SEPA payments alerts

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PayJunction Decreases Wait Time for Payment Processing Over the Phone Through Twilio Partnership

The Fintech Times

Businesses will now be able to easily automate and scale their phone payment operations following a new partnership between PayJunction , the paytech firm, and Twilio , the customer engagement platform providing real-time personalised experiences. Following an integration with Zapier , the workflow automation, application integration, and artificial intelligence orchestration platform, which will enable firms to create custom, scalable workflow automation, PayJunction’s latest partnership

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Worldpay Accelerates Global SaaS Growth with Embedded Payments Platform

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

From a Press Release dated July 8, 2025, Cincinnati, Ohio Worldpay has announced a significant global expansion of its Worldpay for Platforms embedded payments solution, targeting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers in Canada, the UK, and Australia. This move comes in response to rapidly growing demand for integrated financial services, with Worldpay research showing that 90% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) consider access to financial products within their software platforms crit

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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How GDP Trends Impact the Payments Industry

Clearly Payments

Economic growth and the payments industry are closely connected. When the economy grows, people and businesses spend more, fueling transaction volume and, in turn, payment processing activity. Conversely, slowdowns in GDP can signal tighter consumer spending, lower business investment, and reduced demand for financial services. In this article, we break down the relationship between GDP and the payments industry with real-world data and insights.

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Clear Junction Extends Named Virtual IBAN Services to VASP-Licensed Businesses

Fintech Finance

Clear Junction , a specialist in global payments and banking infrastructure for regulated financial institutions, has extended access to its named virtual IBAN (vIBAN) services to licensed virtual asset service providers (VASPs) – a functionality previously only available to banks and electronic money institutions (EMIs). A named vIBAN is a unique code assigned to an individual customer for sending and receiving payments, without creating a separate payment account.

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SIX And Pictet complete pilot project to tokenise financial assets

Finextra

Today, SIX and Banque Pictet & Cie SA have announced the successful conclusion of a joint pilot project, tokenising corporate debt instruments and allocating fractional quantities of these assets to portfolios managed by Pictet Asset Management SA.

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Capitalising in Peru: EBANX Collaborates With Yape to Facilitate Entry for Cross-Border Merchants

The Fintech Times

According to research from payments platform EBANX , the Peruvian e-commerce market is expected to reach $60billion by 2027, growing 20 per cent year-on-year. To ensure cross-border merchants are capitalising on this potential, EBANX has announced it will be integrated into Yape , Peru’s superapp. In 2024, Yape captured the largest share of the volume transacted online with a digital wallet in the country, according to data from Payments and Commerce Market Intelligence (PCMI).

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7 Essential Criteria for Choosing the Right Payments Partner

Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.

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How CFO Job Listings are Changing

The Finance Weekly

Did you know that CFO job listings are shifting to reflect new business demands? A recent analysis of 6,000 CFO job postingsshows a clear trend. From just 8% to a staggering 27% in one yearAI is no longer optional for CFOs.More organizations are looking for CFOs who can lead AI-driven financial operations.

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