In the increasingly high-stakes game of customer retention, Payway just launched a secret weapon for subscription-driven businesses. Announced today at the 2025 ADMA Annual Conference, Payway Censalytics™ is a new business intelligence platform designed to give media companies and card-not-present businesses real-time insight into payment performance—and the tools to do something about it.
In a notable move aimed at reshaping the future of global payment processing, Visa and RS2 are teaming up to deliver a full-stack acceptance platform that blends Visa’s real-time authorization muscle with RS2’s powerful back-end capabilities. The partnership is already rolling out across Europe and Latin America, with a broader global push on the horizon.
In a major move to modernize its compliance infrastructure, I&M Group PLC—a leading financial services provider in East Africa—has partnered with ThetaRay, the AI-first firm making waves in financial crime detection. The result? A unified, cognitive AI-powered AML (Anti-Money Laundering) platform now set to roll out across I&M’s operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and Mauritius.
Bluefin, best known for its encryption-first approach to payment security, just made it easier for businesses to get paid—by embedding payment directly into text messages. The company announced a partnership with Authvia, the conversational commerce firm behind TXT2PAY®, bringing secure, app-free payments to messaging platforms like SMS, RCS, and email via Bluefin’s flagship PayConex™ platform.
Bankers are tired of the binary choice between clunky legacy cores and the risky leap to entirely new tech stacks. Enter Stratum, a newly commercialized SaaS platform from Mascoma Technologies, that promises to help financial institutions modernize without blowing up their infrastructure—or their budgets.
In a move that reflects the growing convergence of fintech and insurtech, Algebrik AI has inked a partnership with TruStage™ to embed lending protection products—think GAP coverage, credit insurance, and mechanical repair plans—directly into its AI-driven Loan Origination System (LOS). The result? A more seamless lending experience where borrowers can opt for protection at the exact moment they’re signing on the dotted line.
Legal tech player CARET just handed the reins to Jay Kuhlman, a seasoned SaaS executive with a track record of scaling operations and driving sustained growth. The appointment signals a sharpened focus on innovation and market expansion in the highly competitive world of practice management and integrated payments for midsize law firms.
Digital Asset, the firm behind the Canton Network, has raised $135 million in a strategic funding round led by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb Markets. The round saw significant participation from top-tier financial institutions and crypto-native players, including Goldman Sachs, Circle Ventures, Citadel Securities, DTCC, Paxos, Polychain Capital, and BNP Paribas.
In the latest sign that institutional DeFi is more than a buzzword, Blueprint Finance has raised $9.5 million in fresh capital to double down on its multi-chain infrastructure ambitions. The round was led by Polychain Capital, with backing from heavyweights like Yzi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), VanEck, and BitGo.
As financial institutions face increasing pressure to modernize aging infrastructure and meet global resiliency mandates, ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) is beefing up its cloud-native payments platform, ACI Connetic, with a deeper stack of strategic technology partners.
