Fintech Weekly

JUNE 1, 2025

As XData Group prepares for a Nasdaq listing via SPAC, two key voices unpack what the deal means for European fintechs global ambitions.

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Fintech News

JUNE 1, 2025

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced that the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee ( CGAC ) will lead a review of the Code of Corporate Governance. The review aims to build on established good practices and strengthen governance and disclosure standards among listed companies. It also complements the work of the Equities Market Review Group to enhance the country’s equities market.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2025

HyperPay , a payment gateway provider in the Middle East and North Africa, has HyperTap, a new service designed to enhance user experience and transaction security for small business owners and mobile-first users. Launched by HyperPay at Seamless Middle East 2025 in Dubai, HyperTap is a payment system that transforms customers’ smartphones into contactless point-of-sale terminals.

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Fintech News

JUNE 1, 2025

Singapore-based stablecoin infrastructure provider StraitsX has unveiled a refreshed brand identity as it expands its role in enabling compliant, real-time payment settlements. The company, originally founded as a payment gateway called Xfers to support treasury and settlement needs for SMEs, has evolved into a regulated platform enabling purpose-built, fiat-backed stablecoins designed for real-world payment use cases.

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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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Stripe

JUNE 1, 2025

Last month at Stripe Sessions, we announced Global Payouts, which allows you to easily and securely send money to third parties around the world. Global Payouts is part of our biggest-ever upgrade to Stripe to make it less expensive, complex, and time-consuming for you to fund, store, and pay out in multiple currencies.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 1, 2025

Cashflows , the platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments , and Cardstream Group , the UK’s leading independent Fintech provider , have entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate Cashflows embedded payments solutions for Independent Sales Organisations (ISOs), software platforms, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) across the UK and Europe.

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The Paypers

JUNE 1, 2025

Financial technology firm Plaid has announced the launch of Transactions for Business, a new solution that aims to simplify converting business bank account data into actionable insights.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2025

On this week’s episode of News & Views, The Fintech Times Podcast team speak about Apple launching Tap to Pay on iPhone in eight new European countries and Curve announcing that it will be launching Curve Pay on iOS as an alternative digital wallet to Apple Pay for iPhone users. With a focus on digital wallets on Apple devices, this week’s podcast kicked off with Francis discussing alternatives to Apple Pay on iPhones.

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The Paypers

JUNE 1, 2025

Programmable financial services company Stripe has announced its latest AI-powered features to optimise the growth of UK businesses.

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Finextra

JUNE 1, 2025

Card giant Visa is taking aim at the UK's burgeoning account-to-account market through its new pay-by-bank offering.

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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

Payments

The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2025

Jarvis , a pension fintech supporting employees planning for their ideal retirement, is teaming up with Octopaye , a HMRC-recognised cloud platform that simplifies complex payroll processes, to offer streamlined payroll and pension solutions for businesses managing temporary workers and contractors. By connecting the pension solution from Jarvis with the Octopaye payroll system, employees will receive accurate pension contributions based on their varying workloads and project durations Although

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Finextra

JUNE 1, 2025

American investment management giant Vanguard has joined forces with the University of Toronto (UofT) to set up several labs focused on the use of AI in financial services.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 1, 2025

Bank payment company GoCardless announces the launch of Outbound Payments, a significant expansion of its platform that will enable merchants to send money directly to customers, suppliers, and third parties via GoCardless. Merchants will be able to use GoCardless to manage both account-to-account collections and payouts within a single platform, streamlining operations, simplifying reconciliation and enhancing payment visibility.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2025

Self-custodial wallet provider, Exodus , has selected global paytech Worldpay to help it bring a native checkout experience to its users by launching a new solution enabling consumers to purchase cryptocurrencies directly within a self-custodial wallet. Through the launch of XOPay, Exodus is enabling consumers to use a credit or debit card to buy crypto within a self-custodial wallet, a cryptocurrency wallet where the owner of those assets has full control over private keys, granting full access

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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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Finextra

JUNE 1, 2025

Fiserv might not grab fintech headlines like flashier startups, but this Fortune 500 financial tech

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2025

Bourgeois Bohme , the platform for high-net-worth individuals and family offices, is launching dual-sided contactless technology in the form of a Mastercard -certified gold-coated payment card. Bourgeois Bohme is launching dual-interface contactless technology fully embedded into a metal structure, in a move to offer a more premium option than other metal card offerings, which rely on a plastic layer to enable contactless payments on one side.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2025

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled new proposals for issuing stablecoins, which aim to support innovation in the UK cryptoasset sector and help UK cryptofirms compete internationally. New FCA crypto and stablecoin proposals would require firms providing crypto custody services, who have responsibility for keeping consumers crypto safe, to ensure they are effectively secured and can be easily accessed at any time.

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