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- Mastercard Inc. has launched its Crypto Partner Program, an effort to bring together more than 85 companies and financial institutions involved in cryptocurrency payments around the world. The aim is to encourage dialogue and collaboration on crypto-based ventures.
- Bilt Technologies Inc., a payments and rewards platform related to homeownership, announced it has acquired Sion Inc., a commission-management platform for travel advisors, for $30 million. Bilt says the deal will reinforce its business in travel rewards. Sion says it has 8,000 users.
- Finzly Inc., a payments-technology provider to financial institutions, launched Token Galaxy, a service supporting banks that seek to work more readily with both traditional and tokenized forms of currency and to connect with multiple blockchains.
- Payment-data security platform Bluefin Payment Systems LLC said it has agreed to offer a wider set of services, including PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) capabilities, to Volante Systems, a foodservice point-of-sale provider.
- The processing platform Thredd Group Ltd. said it will work with Cross River Bank in a joint effort to offer services that could ease the entry of international fintechs into the U.S. market to launch new payment technologies.
- In a measure of its digital connections to customers, Bank of America Corp. said users linked to the bank through various digital services approximately 30 billion times in 2025, up 14% from 2024.
- Payoneer Global Inc., a cross-border payments specialist, announced it will work with FundPark to finance client businesses in Hong Kong to spur their growth.
- Stake Network Inc., a processor for rent payments and connected rewards, closed on $8 million in new debt and equity financing led by LAGO Asset Management LLC.
- Mozark Pte. Ltd., a digital-network testing platform, has closed on a $40-million Series B funding round led by IFC International Finance Corp.
- NEACH, the New England Automated Clearing House Association, has appointed Alex Campbell to its board. Campbell is first vice president and chief payments officer at Connecticut On-Line Computer Center Inc., a banking fintech.
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