Partnerships

Partnerships
Uber Teams With Shopify to Offer Merchants One-Hour Delivery
December 10, 2025

Uber has launched a collaboration with Shopify aimed at speeding delivery for merchants. The partnership makes Uber Direct available to Shopify Plus merchants in the U.S., Canada, and France, allowing them to embed delivery offerings into their checkout, Uber said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10)...

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AppDirect Acquires vCom to Bolster ‘Everything Store’ for B2B
December 10, 2025

B2B commerce platform AppDirect has acquired vCom, an IT lifecycle management provider for midsize companies. The closure of the $100 million deal, announced Wednesday (Dec. 10), will see vCom’s offerings embedded with AppDirect’s recently launched unified lifecycle management platform. “Integrating vCom’s lifecycle management platform, Buyers’...

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Thredd Helps Netbank Roll Out Cards-as-a-Service Solution
December 10, 2025

Philippines-based embedded banking platform Netbank has tapped Thredd to launch its Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution. This solution will allow FinTechs, banks and eWallets to “rapidly deploy modern, flexible card issuing across both consumer and commercial segments,” Thredd said in a Wednesday (Dec. 9) news release. “The Philippines presents a dynamic growth...

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ClearBank and Finseta Team to Simplify International Payments
December 09, 2025

Embedded banking provider ClearBank has launched a collaboration with foreign exchange (FX) and payments solutions company Finseta. The partnership, announced in a news release Tuesday (Dec. 9) is designed to deliver agency banking services supporting British pound (GBP) and multi-currency (MCCY) accounts. The partnership will...

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Fifth Third Turns to Brex for Commercial Card Tech
December 09, 2025

Fifth Third Bank and Brex have partnered on a commercial card that will enable the bank’s commercial banking clients to access Brex’s intelligent finance platform. With access to the platform and the Fifth Third Commercial Card powered by Brex, these clients will be able to...

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Verra Mobility’s New Platform Turns Cars Into Verified Payment Actors
December 09, 2025

Watch more: The Digital Shift: Verra Mobility’s Stacey Moser Automakers have spent the past decade polishing and promising visions of a software-defined future for vehicles and drivers. It’s one where cars become intelligent devices, services are activated with a tap, and digital ecosystems can generate...

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IBM to Buy Confluent for $11 Billion to Expand AI, Data Platform
December 08, 2025

IBM said on Monday (Dec. 8) it plans to acquire Confluent for about $11 billion in cash for the real-time data streaming company in one of its largest acquisitions in the recent years. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2026, pending shareholder and regulatory...

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Mastercard Move and TenPay Global Facilitate Digital Remittances to Weixin Pay
December 08, 2025

Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s cross-border payment platform, the companies said in a Monday (Dec. 8) press release. Together,...

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Socure Acquires Qlarifi in Move Toward BNPL Credit Infrastructure
December 05, 2025

Socure acquired Qlarifi to establish what it called “the industry’s first unified identity, anti-fraud and BNPL credit infrastructure.” The combination brings together Socure’s artificial intelligence-first platform for global identity, compliance and risk decisioning and Qlarifi’s real-time buy now, pay later (BNPL) consumer credit database, the...