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Corpay extends reach to 22 new markets with Mastercard Move

Corpay’s business and financial institutional clients will benefit from near-real-time payouts to 22 new markets, leveraging Mastercard Move’s extensive network.

/startups

Fiat and stablecoin payment network Mesta raises $5.5 million

Mesta, the Global fiat + Stablecoin Payment Network, today announced it has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Village Global, with participation from Circle Ventures, Paxos, and WTI – Western Technology Investment.

/crypto

IG secures FCA crypto licence

Investing and trading platform IG has been granted a cryptoasset licence by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), enabling the firm to significantly expand its crypto offering for customers.

/payments

Yuno expands in Asia with new offices in Singapore and China

Yuno, the global payment orchestration platform, today announced important expansions within APAC including the opening of regional headquarters in Singapore and new operations in China.

/identity

Gleif and Chainlink to create legal entity identifier for the blockchain industry

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the only global source of open, standardized and high-quality legal entity reference data, and Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, today announced a strategic partnership to create an institutional-grade identity solution for the blockchain industry.

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B2B fintech startup Upfront raises $10 million

Dubai-based fintech startup UPFRONT has secured a $10 million pre-seed round, a mix of equity and debt allocation, to tackle one of the most persistent pain points for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the MENA region, which is cash flow inefficiencies.

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PhtonPay taps Thredd to strenthen card issuing architecture

PhotonPay, an AI-powered financial infrastructure platform, has entered a strategic partnership with Thredd, a leading global payments processor, to strengthen the underlying issuer processing architecture of PhotonPay Card globally.

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Couldflare to introduce US dollar stablecoin for the agentic web

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web.

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HSBC: Treasurers expect tokenisation to grow five-fold

Treasurers anticipate tokenisation, embedded payments and wallet-based solutions to increase fivefold over the next two years, as they embrace innovative payment models and digital assets in response to an evolving economic environment, according to new research by HSBC.

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Nium adds global collections to technology suite

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the launch of Global Collections for banks, a new solution designed to allow banks to offer local currency receivables to their customers in multiple countries.

/ai

Nuvei introduces AI integration agent

Nuvei announced the launch of its AI-powered Integration Agent, a new solution that enables merchants and partners to connect to its global payments infrastructure in hours instead of weeks.

/crime

AMLTRIX introduces the world’s first open source AML knowledge graph

A new open-source initiative, AMLTRIX, has been launched to create a universal standard in the global fight against money laundering, a criminal enterprise the United Nations estimates drains up to $2 trillion, or 5% of global GDP each year from the world’s economy.