Clearly Payments

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Growth Trends : Despite the rise of alternative payment methods, credit card transactions continue to grow in sectors like travel, accounting for 60% of all travel bookings globally. Popular Providers : PayPal, Alipay, and Apple Pay lead the market, with PayPal alone reporting over 430 million active accounts worldwide as of 2023.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 20, 2025

Waza , a B2B payment provider for emerging market businesses, has announced the launch of Lync, its new multi-currency account platform that combines market-leading foreign exchange (FX) liquidity solutions with a cutting-edge banking experience to power a new age of global trade for emerging market businesses incorporated in the US, UK or EU.

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Multi-Currency Global Payments Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border 97

The Fintech Times

MARCH 16, 2025

Bank payment company GoCardless is partnering with iplicit , a cloud accounting software platform purpose-built for the UK mid-market, to enable faster payment methods for its customers. Through the collaboration, GoCardless can offer its open banking-powered Instant Bank Pay (IBP) directly within the iplicit platform.

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Faster Payments Non-Bank Payments Instant Payments 69

Fintech Finance

JULY 11, 2025

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.

Payee 52

Payee Faster Payments Push-to-Card Regulations 52

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 16, 2025

As small and medium-size businesses are increasingly turning to non-banking cost-efficient payments solutions, Guavapay is at the forefront of providing solutions that meet the evolving needs of global businesses with real-time, affordable fund transfer, multi-currency accounts and advanced payment APIs.

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Innovation Technology Multi-Currency Payment APIs and Integration 98

Fintech News

JANUARY 26, 2025

As of June 2024, China maintains its leadership in digital wallet adoption, with over 88% of mobile internet users approximately 969 million individuals engaging in mobile payments. Back in 2023, digital wallets accounted for 82% of China’s e-commerce spending and 66% of physical purchases, totalling around US$7.6

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Payments Trends Payment APIs and Integration Embedded Finance Cross-Border 128

The Fintech Times

JULY 11, 2025

With its new EMI licence, Finmo can now issue electronic money and offer a range of new payment services, including account issuance, domestic and cross-border fund transfers, and foreign exchange transactions. Finmo also plans to expand its UK-based compliance and operations team to support these efforts.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 14, 2025

Through this collaboration, Airwallex will leverage ClearBank’s agency banking solution to enhance its UK offering with virtual business accounts, GBP collections, and Confirmation of Payee (CoP) functionality. ClearBank has enabled the global fintech to issue virtual accounts and IBANs under its own brand identity.

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Payee IBAN Payments Faster Payments 105

The Fintech Times

MARCH 19, 2025

This is made possible by setting up e-money accounts that are integrated with and utilise payment schemes such as Faster Payments and SEPA. Firstly, they can easily manage funds while ensuring their compliance and protection at all times.

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Payment Solutions Product Process Reconciliation 104

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

According to the Worldwide Retail Ecommerce Forecast 2024 by eMarketer, eCommerce will account for 21.0% But launching your eCommerce store is just half the equationaccepting payments efficiently and effectively is a whole different ball game. This requires the merchant to become a registered payment facilitator or PayFac.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 8, 2025

This integration makes Dext’s accounting automation platform better by letting Airwallex’s global infrastructure handle fast, safe, and cost-efficient payments. It gives businesses and their advisors clarity, control and confidence over how money moves, whether paying suppliers or getting paid faster by customers.

Multi-Currency 52

Multi-Currency Embedded Finance Payments Automation 52

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Simplicityhassle-free one-time passcode Another major advantage for customers is that they no longer need to remember account numbers or passwords to make online payments. Once the issuing bank gives the go-ahead, the payment services provider will facilitate the transfer of funds from the customers account to a merchant account.

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Payment APIs and Integration Online and Mobile Banking Payment Gateways Gateways 68

Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, has announced the extension of its fintech partnership ecosystem through an alliance with Banfico , a leading fintech specializing in regulatory technology, global account verification and Open Banking solutions. Additionally, Banfico is a Pay.UK-certified

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Payment Service Provider (PSP) Instant Payments Verification FinTech 59

Fintech Finance

JUNE 25, 2025

Medius , a leading provider of Accounts Payable (AP) automation and spend management solutions, has announced the launch of Medius Payments, an embedded payment solution that enables finance teams to securely approve and execute payments, all within one unified accounts payable platform.

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Automation Embedded Payments Payments Multi-Currency 59

Fintech Finance

JUNE 15, 2025

It operates out of New Zealand and has vehicle pick-up locations in over 45 countries, with a particularly strong market presence in Australia, where it has now integrated Volt via payment infrastructure provider Optty. PayTo is a real-time payment system developed by Australia’s New Payments Platform in 2022.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JULY 7, 2025

.” Key Features and Benefits Increased efficiency: The platform automates and streamlines the processing and reconciliation of high volumes of payments, reducing manual work for suppliers’ finance teams and lowering operational costs. Many SMBs still use paper-based payments, which are slow and prone to delays.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The company’s entry into the market is intended to provide businesses with more competitive foreign exchange rates and faster payment processing, particularly beneficial for the growing SaaS and export sectors.

Cross-Border Payments 90

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Faster Payments Settlement 90

Fintech Finance

MAY 19, 2025

now provides businesses with seamless access to all major UK payment schemes – Faster Payments, BACS, and CHAPS – enabling real-time transactions in GBP. ’s Business Accounts offering, reinforcing its commitment to helping UK businesses stay ahead in an evolving payments landscape.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

Leading global fintech Airwallex today announced that it now enables businesses to receive and hold funds in Israeli Shekels (ILS) through its Global Accounts and multi-currency wallet. The new offering enables Israeli and global Airwallex customers to open accounts, facilitating seamless transactions in ILS via the Israeli payment network.

Multi-Currency 52

Multi-Currency Payment APIs and Integration Embedded Finance Cross-Border 52

EBizCharge

MARCH 18, 2025

The Sage 100 system provides comprehensive tools for accounting, financial management, inventory control, manufacturing, and distribution. A reliable Sage 100 integration will be user-friendly and effortlessly compatible to provide merchants with robust functionality and features to securely process payments while managing business finances.

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Finextra

JUNE 9, 2025

has reached a real-time tipping point 0 09 June 2025 1 comment Anand Vaidya Principal Solutions Consultant Icon Solutions Location Wimbledon Followers 0 Opinions 3 Follow Unfollow The need for speed, convenience and certainty is driving demand for faster payment services in the U.S. year-over-year in the first quarter of 2025 [1].

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Finextra

JULY 7, 2025

Together, software, banking and retail account for 38% of the global AI spend. These real implementations in 2024–2025 demonstrate tangible benefits, such as faster customer service, increased financial security, more inclusive products and higher customer satisfaction across the banking industry.

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Finextra

JULY 8, 2025

Home Announcements Payments Dext and Airwallex introduce cross-border payment routing and accounting for SMEs External This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. Commenting on the partnership, Sabby Gill, CEO of Dext, said “Airwallex stood out as the ideal partner to power Dext Payments.

Cross-Border Payments 52

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Accounts Payment APIs and Integration 52

The Payments Association

JULY 19, 2025

This difference in regulatory architecture is one reason criminals may favour EMIs for faster, less scrutinised access to financial systems. Synthetic and stolen identity fraud : Used to open multiple EMI accounts for use in authorised push payment (APP) scams and drug-related activity.

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Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In addition, online payments will sit alongside existing FX, global accounts and company and employee cards. Airwallex is set to disrupt the market by offering lower costs, competitive FX rates, and faster payments critical advantages for businesses operating globally, particularly in New Zealands high-growth SaaS and export sectors.

Cross-Border Payments 59

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Payments Faster Payments 59

The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

By partnering with non-custodial wallet providers, MoonPay is also looking to ensure that users maintain complete control and ownership of their crypto assets, by lowering the risk of account freezes or hacks often experienced on centralised platforms.

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Non-Bank RTP Wire Wires 75

Finovate

APRIL 17, 2025

This optimizes payment execution efficiency across multiple banking partners for Swift, SEPA, and UK Faster Payments. Second, Argentex will leverage advanced reconciliation capabilities to ensure accurate financial record-keeping and operational accuracy of both cross-border payments and associated FX trades.

Risk Management 59

Risk Management Risk Multi-Currency Reconciliation 59

Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In recent years, Real-Time Payments (RTP) have seen a rapid rise in use among individuals and businesses across Asia Pacific, allowing transactions to be settled between accounts at different financial institutions within secondssomething which in the past often took a matter of days.

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Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In addition, online payments will sit alongside existing FX, global accounts and company and employee cards. By offering streamlined international payments, global accounts, and competitive FX rates, Airwallex is positioning itself as a vital partner for the country’s burgeoning startup ecosystem.

Cross-Border Payments 59

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Payments Faster Payments 59

The Payments Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Faster payments and faster fraud As new payment use cases and systems emerge, they naturally introduce new fraud risks. For instance, decreasing authorized push payment (APP) fraud is still a key priority for the UKs Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in 2025.

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Fintech Review

MAY 10, 2025

The bank holds the account, processes the funds, and clears the transaction. Central bank systems such as the UKs Faster Payments or the USs Fedwire rely on banks to distribute access. Banks Power: A New Era of Accountability The power banks hold also brings responsibility. Banks still hold enormous power.

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Central Bank Push-to-Card FedWire Regulations 52

EBizCharge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ease of integration: Virtual terminals can integrate with accounting, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and online shopping cart systems to streamline workflows and simplify transaction management.

Credit Cards 52

Credit Cards Encryption ACH Process 52

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming accounts receivable (AR) and B2B trade credit management by replacing manual, error-prone processes with intelligent, AI-driven tools. Credit decision-making, collections, cash application, deductions, and communications are greatly enhanced by AI-powered AR automation.

Automation 52

Automation AI Embedded Finance Payment Reconciliation 52

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 17, 2025

.” As small and medium-sized businesses increasingly turn to non-banking cost-efficient payment solutions, Guavapay aims to provide solutions that meet the evolving needs of global businesses with real-time, affordable fund transfer, multi-currency accounts and advanced payment APIs.

Innovation 59

Innovation Technology Payment APIs and Integration Multi-Currency 59

Neopay

MAY 28, 2025

The figures are compelling: a record 31 million Open Banking payments were processed in a single month (March 2025), representing nearly 8% of all Faster Payments. This includes players offering advanced account aggregation tools, real-time cash flow analytics, credit access platforms, and embedded payment solutions.

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Faster Payments Small Business Embedded Payments Credit Cards 52

Fintech Finance

MARCH 18, 2025

Key benefits of Edenred Payment Solutions Virtual Cards in Insurance: Easy Funds Management: e-money accounts are set up for insurers and seamlessly integrated with payment schemes such as Faster Payments and SEPA.

Payment Solutions 59

Payment Solutions Product Reconciliation Payments 59

EBizCharge

JUNE 16, 2025

8 common features of enterprise merchant services Merchant accounts are specific types of bank accounts that allow enterprise merchants to accept credit, debit, Automated Clearing House (ACH)/eCheck, and other payments. This account holds funds from sales until they’re deposited into a business’s primary bank account.

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