Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Indonesia has reached a significant milestone in its journey toward exploring the potential of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with the completion of the Proof of Concept (PoC) for the wholesale Digital Rupiah under the auspices of Bank Indonesias Project Garuda. Marking a pivotal point, Indonesias efforts underscore its drive to harness digital technologies for modernising payment systems while safeguarding financial stability and promoting inclusivity.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Adyen , the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces the launch of Adyen Uplift. The AI-powered payment optimization suite will help businesses increase payment conversion, simplify fraud management, and reduce the cost of payments. Adyens customers can utilize data-driven, tailored performance recommendations and opportunities to test different payment configurations to maximize performance.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Skyee Pte. Ltd. (Skyee) is excited to announce that it has been granted In-Principle Approval (IPA) for the Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Skyee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Skyee Group a Chinese leading cross border payment solution provider in China, Europe, North America and North Asia. If obtained, the MPI license will allow Skyee to service its Singapore market, further enhancing the payment experience for cross-border sellers, str

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has announced the granting of a license to HyperPay Inc. Saudi Arabia for Information Systems Technology to operate digital payment services via an electronic wallet in the Kingdom. This license marks an important step in enhancing the companys position in the growing digital payments market in Saudi Arabia. HyperPay is a leading company in the financial technology sector, aiming to support the transition to a less cash-dependent society by offering innovative payme

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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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JANUARY 9, 2025

The NFC Forum has expanded its certification program to include next-generation cordless kitchen appliances that conform to the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) Ki Cordless Kitchen Standard. Ki is a global wireless power transfer standard for kitchens that aims to eliminate power cords and add a communication channel between the appliance and the Ki power transmitter.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

The 2024 holiday shopping season shattered records, with consumers spending $1.2 trillion online globally, according to a Salesforce report released Monday. In the UK, in-store sales alone were projected to generate nearly 56 billion. However, the surge in holiday sales will soon be accompanied by a rise in product returns and disputed transactions, according to experts at Chargebacks911 , signaling a challenging start to 2025 for retailers known as the holiday hangover.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Community banks and credit unions can now increase their understanding to better serve their customers’ needs through a new partnership between DeepTarget Inc. and FinGoal. By combining FinGoal’s advanced transaction analysis and DeepTarget, financial institutions can transform routine transaction data into actionable insights that power highly personalized product recommendations and offers.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Airwallex , the global payments and financial platform, is partnering with online car-changing marketplace Carwow to enable the firm to process payments for enterprise dealer groups who purchase cars from thousands of private sellers through its daily online auctions every week. Through the integration of the Scale Native API from Airwallex, Carwow will also remove major operational hurdles for its dealer partners.Dealers in the Carwow network will agree to terms and conditions before being allo

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Kuady , the leading payments service processor, for Latin America, has today announced the launch of its physical prepaid Mastercard, expanding its payment options for users in Peru. Following the success of Kuadys virtual card, the physical card provides a secure, flexible and convenient way for users to make in-store payments. Integrated with the Kuady app, the physical Kuady card also allows users to make secure in-store purchases with any merchant accepting Mastercard using their Kuady walle

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Tearsheet

JANUARY 9, 2025

Embedded payments are becoming a staple in the B2C world, and more businesses are also jumping on board, aiming to streamline and automate processes from payroll (automated invoicing) to procurement (trade credit). However, B2B transactions in embedded payments are more challenging and don’t flow as easily as B2C ones. B2B is anything but seamless, Daniel Artin, Head of Fintech Partnerships at Boost Payment Solutions told PYMNTS.

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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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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the launch of the Diners Club International Card for its travel customers. This milestone makes Nium one of the first global card issuers in the travel space to offer cards across the four major schemes. Nium empowers some of the worlds largest online travel intermediaries to instantly, securely, and cost-effectively pay airlines and travel suppliers around the world using its B2B virtual card solution.

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Finovate

JANUARY 9, 2025

doxo launched doxoBILLS , a new platform that combines six key features to help consumers manage household finances more effectively. Among the new tools are all-in-one bill pay, real-time bank balance insights, credit score protection, $1 million in identity theft protection, and utility usage tracking. While doxoBILLS offers standard features for free, premium options like identity theft protection and overdraft safeguards are available through the doxoPLUS subscription, priced at $5.99 per mo

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Klarna , the AI-powered global payment network and shopping assistant, is strengthening its partnership with Zalando , Europes leading online multi-brand fashion destination, by introducing Klarnas Pay in 3 option in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, and Denmark. This expansion builds on last years successful launch in France, Italy, and Spain,where already millions of customers embraced the flexibility of Klarnas payment solutions.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Account holders with US licenced digital bank, FV Bank , will now be able to convert PayPal USD (PYUSD) into USD in real time as the digital bank expands its stablecoin capabilities. Offering an integrated suite of traditional and digital asset banking and custody services, this new expansion builds on FV Bank’s integration of Circle ‘s USDC in September 2021 and Tether ‘s USDT in December 2024.

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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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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

In a groundbreaking move to enhance the Edutech ecosystem, Ottu , a leading Online payment management solution in the GCC, has partnered with Edunation , a premier provider of innovative e-learning platforms. With this collaboration, Ottu aims to simplify and streamline payment processes for educational institutions regionally by launching end-to-end fully integrated seamless online payments on Edunation platform empowering them with fee collections through their student management systems, web

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Bank Automation

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Clearing House Real Time Payments network grew 94% year over year on a dollar basis in 2024 as it continued to benefit from the Federal Reserves marketing of FedNow. TCH moved $246 billion on its network in 2024 and increased transaction volume by 38% YoY to 343 million transactions, according to a Jan. 8 […] The post RTP payment volume up 94% in 2024 appeared first on Bank Automation News.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

BlueSnap , a global payment orchestration platform for leading B2B and B2C businesses, today announced its selection by MarginEdge , a provider of restaurant management solutions, as its North American client billing partner. MarginEdge helps restaurant owners and managers get out of the back office and back onto the restaurant floor by automating their operations.

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Finextra

JANUARY 9, 2025

De La Rue has received a preliminary takeover offer from the same group of investors which in December made a bid for up to 40% of the UK banknote printer.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Telr , the award-winning online payment gateway in the MENA, serving over 30,000 merchants across the region, today announced a strategic partnership with Apaya , the leading commerce automation platform in the Middle East and Africa. This partnership combines Telr’s comprehensive payment solutions in the UAE, KSA, Bahrain and Jordan, with Apaya’s no-code commerce automation platform, enabling merchants to build and scale world-class payment experiences with just a few clicks. “

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Finextra

JANUARY 9, 2025

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces the launch of Adyen Uplift. The AI-powered payment optimization suite will help businesses increase payment conversion, simplify fraud management, and reduce the cost of payments.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 9, 2025

The cash advance online platform called the lawsuit “a continued example of government overreach.

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Finextra

JANUARY 9, 2025

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces the launch of Adyen Uplift. The AI-powered payment optimization suite will help businesses increase payment conversion, simplify fraud management, and reduce the cost of payments.

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Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Basis Theory

JANUARY 9, 2025

Doing commerce globally requires the services of providers all around the world.

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Axway

JANUARY 9, 2025

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform designed to handle high-throughput, real-time data feeds.

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Finextra

JANUARY 9, 2025

Global banks will cut as many as 200,000 jobs in the next three to five years as artificial intelligence encroaches on tasks currently carried out by human workers, according to a market survey conducted by Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 9, 2025

The venture capital firm with a fintech focus said the latest fundraising brings the total raised since its founding to $10.2 billion.

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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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Finextra

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has approved Financial Data Exchange (FDX) as the first standard setting body for the regulator's new open banking regime.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 9, 2025

Commerce automation platform Apaya has announced its partnership with Telr in order to accelerate the development and growth of digital commerce in MENA.

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Finextra

JANUARY 9, 2025

Days after departing from Finastra, former CEO Simon Paris has resurfaced as chief executive officer of enterprise resource planning oufit Unit4.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 9, 2025

Baltini , an online platform specialising in luxury Italian fashion, has announced a partnership with Triple-A, a licenced cryptocurrency payment provider.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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