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Mobile wallets established as new payment standard in Soth East Asia and Africa

Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today unveiled its comprehensive Complete Guide to Mobile Wallets 2025, the second edition of an extensive study that dives into the acceleration of mobile wallet adoption and the evolution of digital payments.

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IFX Payments granted Category 3C lincence by the Dubai Financial Services Authority

Service-led alternative banking partner, IFX Payments expands its service offering in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Real-time yield bearing settlement network Lynq set for launch

Arca Labs, Tassat Group, Inc. (“Tassat”), and tZERO Group, Inc. (“tZERO”) today announced the launch of Lynq, a real-time, yield-bearing settlement network powered by a tokenized treasury fund custodied at a special purpose broker-dealer.

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Affirm to report all pay-over-time loans to TransUnion

Affirm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, is expanding the credit reporting of its pay-over-time products to TransUnion (NYSE: TRU), the companies jointly announced today.

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Fortis appoints Brad Bialas and Kimling Lan to C-Suite positions

Fortis, the payment technology leader for software platforms and scaling businesses, today announced the strategic appointment of two industry veterans to its executive leadership team: Brad Bialas as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Kimling Lam as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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Wave CX transforms natural language requests into direct in-app action

WaveCX, provider of personalized, digital product engagement solutions for financial institutions, today announced the launch of Curator Command, a major advancement in digital banking user experience (UX) that transforms natural language requests into direct in-app action.

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Norm Ai assembles an AI Agent Advisory Committee

Norm Ai, a Regulatory AI agent company, is announcing the formation of two strategic advisory bodies composed of industry leaders to guide the responsible development and deployment of AI agents in highly regulated industries.

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VantageScore expands open banking credit score for lending to underserved borrowers

VantageScore today announced the expansion of their groundbreaking VantageScore 4plus pilot program for lenders launched in partnership with Credit Builders Alliance.

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Terra Security raises $8 million for AI-based white hacker

Terra Security, an Agentic AI-native penetration testing service-as-a-software platform, raises $8M in a seed round led by SYN Ventures and FXP Ventures with participation from Underscore VC and notable angel investors including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelback, Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, founders of Talon Security, Travis McPeak and Itamar Friedman.

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Stripe unveils new payment products for Japan

Today, programmable financial services company Stripe announced a set of payments updates for Japanese businesses and businesses looking to expand into Japan.

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Iress enters into binding agreement to sell QuantHouse business to BAHA

Iress (ASX:IRE) today announces it has entered into a binding share sale and purchase agreement to divest its European headquartered low-latency market data business, QuantHouse, to BAHA Tech Holding AG (BAHA).

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Crypto gateway Paydify goes live

Paydify, a universal gateway for any crypto payments, has officially launched to enable businesses to accept crypto payments from any wallet or blockchain network.