Cardstream Group has launched Flowes, a new brand for its white-label Payment Facilitation-as-a-Service offering for payment firms.

Affirm has announced an expansion of its partnership with Stripe to support Shared Payment Tokens, bringing pay-over-time options to AI agent-driven checkout flows.

Zūm Rails has completed its all-in-one payments ecosystem by becoming a payments facilitator through a collaboration with Fiserv.

Paytently has inked a strategic partnership with SEON to deploy fraud prevention and anti-money laundering controls across its payment orchestration platform.

Digital payments company Checkout.com has joined Freenow by Lyft in a collaboration aimed at facilitating optimal digital payments across the latter’s European markets.

Payment software provider Akurateco has joined Aquanow, a digital asset platform, in a collaboration aimed at facilitating access to crypto payment options.

WalletConnect Pay enables payments providers and merchants to easily and compliantly accept stablecoin and crypto payments, providing low-cost, instant settlement payments with a single integration. Built on the WalletConnect Network, which facilitated over USD 400 transactions in 2025, WalletConnect Pay makes crypto payments available to over 500 million end users via its connectivity with any crypto wallet on any chain. Ingenico is the first major payments leader to integrate WalletConnect Pay.