Ziina Becomes First Homegrown UAE Fintech With Three CBUAE Licences
UAE fintech Ziina says it is the first homegrown UAE fintech company…
Payments
Splitit Launches White-Label World Mastercard for Mid-Sized Banks and Credit Unions
Splitit, the installment payments platform, has announced the upcoming launch of the…
Checkout.com Goes Live With US Direct Acquiring Under Georgia MALPB Charter
Checkout.com has begun direct card acquiring in the US under its Georgia Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank charter, gaining direct access to card networks.…
PhonePe Wins In-Principle Approval From UAE Central Bank for First International Market
PhonePe has secured in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE for two payment licences, its first step into an international market.…
Mubadala and EBRD Co-Lead $35m Pre-Series C in Paymob as GCC Nears Half of Revenue
Paymob has raised $35m in a pre-Series C round co-led by Mubadala and the EBRD, after GCC revenues grew sevenfold in 18 months.…
OpenPayd Adds 43 US Money Transmitter Licences Ahead of Nasdaq Listing
OpenPayd has integrated MSB USA Inc. to acquire 43 state money transmitter licences, giving its 1,200 clients a regulated US route as it prepares to list on Nasdaq.…
Mollie Completes GoCardless Acquisition, Creating a 350,000-Business European Group
Mollie has closed its acquisition of GoCardless, combining cards and local payment methods with one of Europe's largest Pay by Bank and Direct Debit networks.…
Adyen Takes Direct CBUAE Licence, Cutting Local Intermediaries Out of Its UAE Settlement Chain
Adyen has secured a Retail Payment Services Category II licence from the…
Oman Arab Bank Completes Visa Tokenisation Rollout as BPC Partnership Hits Ten Years
Oman Arab Bank (OAB) has gone live with Visa tokenisation, completing a…
Nium acquires Cypher to bridge fiat and blockchain payments
Nium, the global cross-border payments infrastructure company, has acquired Cypher, a…
Backbase and Mastercard Team Up to Simplify Cross-Border Payments for Banks
Backbase has announced a strategic collaboration with Mastercard to embed Mastercard Move,…
Checkout.com Adds Stablecoin Acceptance in Partnership with Coinbase
Checkout.com has launched a stablecoin acceptance capability powered by Coinbase Payments,…