Registry — Vantage Bank Texas (US) added to the registry
Enforcement — Guidance issued against Industry-wide · OCC · Jul 22, 2026
Partnership — Flex Files for Utah Industrial Bank Charter with FDIC · Jul 25, 2026
Product — KamelPay Launches AbsoluteCard Corporate Payments Platform in UAE · Jul 24, 2026
M&A — Monext Acquires French Payments Firm Alcinéo to Control Value Chain · Jul 19, 2026
Funding — Parafin Closes $300M Forward-Flow Deal to Expand Embedded Finance Lending · Jul 23, 2026
Deal Feed
Partnerships, funding rounds, product launches, and M&A across the ecosystem.
Global payments fintech Payvision partnered with Dutch bank ING to provide cross-border e-commerce payment processing. The deal emphasized complementary strengths, combining Payvision's payments technology with ING's banking infrastructure and regulatory reach. This was an early example of the bank-fintech collaboration trend that accelerated throughout 2018.
Volante Technologies collaborated with BNY Mellon on payments technology innovation, including real-time payments processing via the VolPay Hub and tokenized payments with Zelle. The partnership demonstrates how infrastructure providers enable banks to offer modern payment rails. This collaboration supports BNY Mellon's ability to provide embedded payment capabilities to its clients.
Visa partnered with NovoPayment to enable digital financial services such as mass disbursements and collections via a cloud-based platform for banks across Latin America. The partnership leverages NovoPayment's API-driven platform to help banks deliver embedded payment and account services to corporate clients. This represents an early embedded finance play in the LATAM region.
Paris-based Spendesk raised €8M in a Series A led by Index Ventures to expand its business spending platform across Europe. The round follows a €2M seed in 2017. Spendesk provides companies with a platform for managing purchases and expenses.