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Zip US expands partnership with Stripe

Zip (ASX: ZIP), the digital financial services company offering innovative, people-centered products for everyday Americans, announced the next evolution of its partnership with Stripe, the programmable financial services business.

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Clerq raises $21m to power high-ticket transactions

Clerq, the next-generation payments platform for high-ticket transactions, announced that it has secured $21 million in capital to power the future of payments.

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Prospero.ai and Finimize partner to bring institutional-grade AI insights to retail investors

Prospero.ai, the award-winning AI-powered investing platform helping retail investors trade like professionals, today announced its third partnership with Finimize, one of the world's largest retail investor communities globally (1m+) that empowers retail investors with concise insights from world-class analysts.

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Natural raises $9.8m to build agentic payments infrastructure

Natural, a fintech company building the infrastructure powering agentic payments, announced its emergence from stealth driven by a $9.8 million seed round.

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Standard Chartered partners Dandelion on real-time cross-border payments

Standard Chartered has partnered with Dandelion Payments, a Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT) company, to enhance the Bank’s low-value global disbursements proposition.

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Corpay names Matt Hanks VP, marketing, UK fleet

Corpay, the global S&P 500 corporate payments company, has appointed Matt Hanks as Vice President Marketing for UK Fleet, a new role created to accelerate growth across its UK fleet and payments brands, including Allstar, Keyfuels and The Fuelcard Company (TFC).

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IBM and Groq partner up to accelerate enterprise AI deployment

IBM and Groq today announced a strategic go-to-market and technology partnership designed to give clients immediate access to Groq's inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate – providing clients high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment.

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Tri Nam and Software Group partner up for digital transformation in Vietnam and Bulgaria

Tri Nam Group Joint Stock Company (Vietnam) and Software Group (Bulgaria) have officially entered into a strategic partnership, uniting their strengths to accelerate digital transformation and expand international market presence.

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Affirm expands partnership with Worldpay

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps businesses grow, today announced an expanded partnership with Worldpay, a global industry leading payment services provider.

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CardFlight and Worldpay bring Tap to Pay on iPhone to SwipeSimple merchants

CardFlight, Inc., and Worldpay®, a global leader in payment technology, today announced Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available to all SwipeSimple® merchants.

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Finix integrates with Canada's Interac

Finix, the full-stack payment processor enabling businesses to accept and send payments online and in-store, today announced a new integration with Interac Corp. (Interac), a leading Canadian payments provider.

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Fireblocks buys Dynamic

Fireblocks, the enterprise platform securing more than $4 trillion in digital asset transfers annually, today announced its acquisition of Dynamic, a developer platform powering over 50 million on-chain accounts for industry leaders including Kraken and zerohash, and web3 leaders such as Magic Eden, Lighter, and Ondo Finance.

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