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Jack Henry signs Mercantile Bank

Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) announced today that Mercantile Bank, Michigan’s largest community bank, has selected Jack Henry to evolve its technology infrastructure, streamline operations, and support its long-term growth strategy.

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Worldline appoints Srikanth Seshadri CFO

Srikanth Seshadri is an experienced global finance leader, with a broad expertise in financial control, corporate finance, and funding.

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Aleo joins Binance Alpha

The Aleo Network Foundation (Aleo), the non-profit corporation that oversees the health of the ALEO Network, a privacy and compliance infrastructure that powers secure, programmable, worldwide payments, today announced it has joined Binance Alpha, a pre-listing discovery program spotlighting the industry’s most promising projects.

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Visa Acceptance Platform now hosted on local cloud in Saudi Arabia

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today announced that the Visa Acceptance Platform is now hosted on local cloud in Saudi Arabia — a world‑first implementation by Visa — in alignment with the Saudi Central Bank “SAMA” mandate.

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Trade Republic expands from brokerage to wealth management

Trade Republic, Europe’s largest savings platform, continues to grow, surpassing 10 million customers, across 18 European markets and more than 150 billion euro in assets under management.

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Alibaba adopts Slope's 'Pay Later for Business' offering

Slope, the AI-powered credit and risk infrastructure provider, announced today their partnership with Alibaba.com on “Pay Later for Business,” an embedded financing solution enabling U.S. business buyers to conveniently manage payments and cash flow directly at checkout.

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Visa launches premium offering in UAE

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, has announced the launch of Visa Private, an exclusive premium offering tailored for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) who seek a level of service and benefits that go beyond conventional card experiences.

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Investa rolls out zero-commission options trading app

Investa, the UK’s first zero-commission options trading app, is now available to investors after an active soft launch where over 1400 trades were facilitated — putting what they believe is an under-utilised investment product in reach of on-the-go traders and more sophisticated investors.

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Azentio Software unveils loan origination tech

Azentio Software, a leading technology enabler in the BFSI space, announced the launch of Azentio Loan Origination, its next-generation product that redefines how financial institutions scale credit operations across retail, SME, and corporate segments, and supports both conventional and Islamic financing.

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PXP launches Checkout Components

PXP, the omnichannel global payment platform, has launched Checkout Components, a new enterprise-grade solution that addresses one of ecommerce’s biggest challenges: customers abandoning their purchases at the final hurdle.

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Vodafone and Software Group ink digital banking MoU

Software Group, a global technology leader in digital financial service platforms, and Vodafone Oman have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on advancing innovative digital financial services in Oman.

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Thunes expands real-time payments to Saudi Arabia

Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, has announced the rollout of real-time cross-border payments into Saudi Arabia.

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