June 30, 2025 @ 1:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Relay, a small business banking and money management platform, has released new data showing 88% of American small businesses are currently facing cash flow disruptions. The data comes from the second and latest edition of Relay’s Cash Flow Compass report. It surveyed more than 1,000 U.S…. Read More

 Tagged cash flow, Mike Michalowicz, relay, SMB, sme's

June 30, 2025 @ 9:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

MTCM, a Luxembourg-based securitization platform serving clients across Europe, the Americas, MENA, and Asia, has entered into a strategic partnership with Tokeny, an on-chain operating system, to enable the issuance of both traditional and digital securities through a unified workflow. This collaboration marks the launch… Read More

 Tagged luc falempin, luxembourg, MTCM, Pedro Herranz, t-rex, tokeny

June 30, 2025 @ 8:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Xero Limited has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Melio, an SMB bill pay platform. The acquisition is expected to be funded through a mix of cash and equity. The upfront consideration will be $2.5 billion in cash and equity consideration. Additional contingent consideration,… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, matan bar, melio, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, xero

June 30, 2025 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bolt, the checkout, identity and payments platform, today announced Bolt Connect, a new product designed to help marketplaces onboard merchants faster, streamline operations and scale with fewer resources. Bolt Connect gives marketplace operators “a single integration to support one-click merchant onboarding, built-in compliance workflows, and… Read More

 Tagged bolt, checkout, digital technology, payments

June 30, 2025 @ 6:27 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This past week, Bloomberg launched geopolitical country-of-risk scores for seven million companies built with Seerist’s geopolitical risk and security intelligence. Available on the Bloomberg Terminal and via Data License for enterprise-wide use, these scores enable risk managers, portfolio managers and traders to quickly identify 29… Read More

 Tagged bloomberg, Geopolitics, Seerist, Tim Roots, Zane Van Dusen

June 29, 2025 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Starling Bank is reportedly exploring a bold move to expand its footprint into the United States by acquiring a US-based lender. This step marks a significant milestone in the bank’s plans to grow beyond its domestic market and establish a presence in one of… Read More

 Tagged digital banking, starling bank, uk, united kingdom, us

June 29, 2025 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a key decision, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that the multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) charged by Visa and Mastercard to retailers violate European competition law. This ruling, delivered in June 2025, marks a significant moment in the ongoing scrutiny of payment… Read More

 Tagged fees, mastercard, uk, united kingdom, visa

June 29, 2025 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a global firm focused on stablecoin payments and digital finance, is pleased to announce that Wirex Pay Chain is now supported on Fireblocks, the digital asset and payments infrastructure platform. This integration enables Fireblocks’ institutional clients to “access Wirex Pay’s self-custodial stablecoin payment infrastructure,… Read More

 Tagged finance, Fireblocks, payments, stablecoin, wirex

June 29, 2025 @ 7:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spendbase, a spend management platform that helps businesses save on software and cloud costs, is launching a new suite of financial tools that take spend control to the next level: Digital Banking and Virtual Cards. With this release, Spendbase moves “beyond expense optimization and into… Read More

 Tagged cloud, digital banking, software, spend management, spendbase, virtual cards

June 29, 2025 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgian authorities have initiated a formal investigation into the local operations of Worldline (Euronext: WLN), a French payments processing company, following serious allegations of money laundering. The probe comes in response to claims that the firm may have facilitated illicit financial activities through its Belgian… Read More

 Tagged belgium, europe, france, investigation, money laundering, payments, worldline