Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
Octet Türkiye and Mastercard have partnered strategically to help B2B companies. The Mastercard Octet collaboration provides SMEs in the MENA region with digital tools that increase their financial flexibility. According to data by Statista , the number of digital B2B payments in the Middle East and Africa is forecast to nearly double between 2023 and 2028.
The Fintech Times
JULY 4, 2025
Lloyds Banking Group is joining forces with a deep tech startup UnlikelyAI, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) technology could bolster innovation and enhance customer experience. Through the new partnership, Lloyds Banking Group will test UnlikelyAI technology within its Innovation Sandbox. It will look to conduct a proof of concept experiment to explore how neurosymbolic AI can be used across the Group, in a way that delivers responsible, accurate and consistent support.
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Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
Exactly.com , a payment provider for SMEs and micro businesses, has enhanced its offering by integrating Bizum—a leading Spanish alternative payment method. This strategic integration enables UK merchants to strengthen their local presence and boost revenue streams. Bizum has emerged as a well-established mobile payment solution in Spain, offering instant transfers directly between bank accounts via users’ mobile numbers.
The Fintech Times
JULY 4, 2025
To be successful in the digital economy, businesses must consider financial exchange (FX) related risks and costs when expanding abroad. With firms spending roughly $120billion (S$154.2billion) on cross-border transaction fees, alternatives are being sought after. According to a new report from the Project Guardian FX industry group, implementing tokenised bank liabilities and shared ledgers in cross-border payments and FX is a viable solution.
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.
Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
TBC Bank Uzbekistan (TBC UZ), the country’s largest digital bank, announces that it has issued over 500,000 Salom Cards, its flagship debit card and daily banking product, in the first six months since its rollout. Following the late-2024 soft launch and gradual rollout of Salom Card, TBC UZ has seen strong demand for the product, which serves as the primary entry point into TBC Uzbekistan’s wider digital banking ecosystem – Central Asia’s largest with 19.7 million users.
The Fintech Times
JULY 4, 2025
Fostering bank and fintech partnerships that deliver digital first services to underserved communities and small businesses is an absolute must according to the American Fintech Council (AFC), the premier industry association representing responsible fintech companies and innovative banks, as it responds to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) request for information (RFI) on community bank digitisation.
Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
Six months after its launch, TBC Uzbekistan’s Salom debit card has more than 500,000 users. One of the fintech products in the region that is being adopted the fastest is the TBC Uzbekistan Salom card. Following the late-2024 soft launch and gradual rollout of Salom Card, TBC UZ has seen strong demand for the product, which serves as the primary entry point into TBC Uzbekistan’s wider digital banking ecosystem – Central Asia’s largest with 19.7 million users.
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Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
Six months after its launch, TBC Uzbekistan’s Salom debit card has more than 500,000 users. One of the fintech products in the region that is being adopted the fastest is the TBC Uzbekistan Salom card. Following the late-2024 soft launch and gradual rollout of Salom Card, TBC UZ has seen strong demand for the product, which serves as the primary entry point into TBC Uzbekistan’s wider digital banking ecosystem – Central Asia’s largest with 19.7 million users.
Finextra
JULY 4, 2025
Speaking to FinextraTV while attending Money 20/20, Stanley Wachs, Director of Business Development and Head of France, Benelux, Switzerland, and Africa at Dandelion Payments, shared his thoughts on how mobile wallets are impacting the modernization efforts of banks and fintech's. Wachs positions mobile wallets as a key component of the future of cross-border payments and of progressing the modernization of payment infrastructure.
Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
Exactly.com has expanded its footprint in Spain. The expansion of Exactly.com Spain Coverage enhances local payment performance and fortifies cross-border capabilities. Bizum has emerged as a well-established mobile payment solution in Spain, offering instant transfers directly between bank accounts via users’ mobile numbers. Designed for convenience and speed, it integrates seamlessly with banking apps and facilitates both peer-to-peer payments and e-commerce transactions.
Finextra
JULY 4, 2025
BBVA has unveiled its cryptocurrency trading and custody service for bitcoin and ether, which is now available to all retail customers of legal age in Spain. After filing the relevant disclosure with the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the bank has been gradually rolling out the service in recent weeks.
Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
Spending in the UAE is expected to increase as Dubai Summer Surprises 2025 draws near. Strong consumer activity is anticipated during the seasonal retail period. As the UAE gears up for another season of Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS), new data from Checkout.com reveals a sharp increase in digital spending during last year’s campaign, with signals pointing to even greater momentum this summer.
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
Finextra
JULY 4, 2025
Whilst joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025, Craig Ramsey, Head of A2A Payments, ACI Worldwide helped to both define the fundamentals of account-to-account payments, as well as sharing his insights into the current landscape. Touching on recent regulation obstacles, Ramsey described how modernisation projects have been stopped to strategically meet regulatory standards.
The Fintech Times
JULY 4, 2025
The Financial Ombudsman Service , the service that settles complaints between customers and businesses, has revealed that in the last financial year, consumers lodged 305,726 complaints about financial products with independent service – the highest number in the past six years. The last time the Financial Ombudsman received more complaints was during the PPI issue in 2018/19 (388,392).
Finextra
JULY 4, 2025
SIX announces the successful closing of its acquisition of Aquis Exchange plc, a leading European challenger exchange. With this strategic acquisition, SIX is evolving into a truly pan-European exchange innovator at scale, with an aggregated market share of 15% and access to 16 capital markets across Europe.
CoinRemitter
JULY 4, 2025
Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) are two of the most popular Bitcoin forks. A fork happens when developers change the original code of a blockchain to create a new version with different features. Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash were both designed to address some of Bitcoin’s issues, such as slow transaction times and comparatively high fees. These two coins are often used for payments.
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JULY 4, 2025
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Fintech Finance
JULY 4, 2025
The Payments Association , the most influential community in payments helping shape the industry, today reinforced the importance of robust Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) initiatives within the payments sector, as PridePay , the LGBTQIA+ focused payment app from Cardaq , announced its headline sponsorship of Pride in London 2025. The announcement comes on the heels of The Payments Association’s 2025 D&I survey, which reveals significant gaps in the collection and utilisation of di
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The Fintech Times
JULY 4, 2025
Experian , the global data and technology firm, has published insights uncovered by Mosaic, its AI-powered classification and segmentation tool that helps businesses, charities and public sector firms better understand their audiences, revealing how the UK’s communities are evolving in light of flexible working and the rising cost of living. Mosaic categorises households into 18 groups and 68 types of house using consumer data to offer a detailed view of UK lifestyles.
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The Fintech Times
JULY 4, 2025
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is close to seeing its first distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based bond listing as UAE-based exchange, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), has commenced the pricing stage of the bond. Introducing the digital bond into ADX ’s growing list of financial products supports its broader ambition to offer innovative financial instruments and signifies the exchange’s role in introducing tokenised finance.
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JULY 4, 2025
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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.
Finextra
JULY 4, 2025
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Finextra
JULY 4, 2025
DeFi Technologies Inc. (the “Company” or “DeFi Technologies”) (Nasdaq: DEFT) (CBOE CA: DEFI) (GR: R9B), a financial technology company bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance (“DeFi”), has announced its expansion in the GCC and MENA region with the registration of DEFI DMCC (certification no DMCC199558) with offices in Jumeirah Lake Towers Dubai UAE.
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JULY 4, 2025
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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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