NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- According to The Conference Board Holiday Spending Survey, the average US consumer intends to spend $990 on holiday-related purchases in 2025. That's down 6.9% from $1063 in 2024 and close to holiday spending intentions in 2023 ($985), but lower than in 2022 ($1,006) and 2021 ($1,022). Consumers intend to spend $650 on gifts this year, down 3.9% from $677 last year and the lowest since 2022. Meanwhile, budgets for non-gift items—including food, deco...

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WESTERLY, R.I., Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington Trust has added Clover technology to its business banking solutions, giving merchants more tools to run their business and greater options for accepting credit cards and other digital payments from customers more securely. Businesses can sign up to use Clover's all-in-one business operating system, which provides products specifically designed to make financial transactions in restaurants, services, and retail settings more convenient for...

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HONG KONG, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PhotonPay, an AI-powered financial infrastructure provider, has officially joined Circle's Arc public testnet, an open, developer-friendly Layer-1 blockchain network designed to bring real-world economic activity onchain and evolve into the next-generation Economic Operating System (OS) for the internet. Working alongside leading innovators in global payments, technology, and fintech, this initiative represents a major stride toward building open, prog...

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Singapore 14 November - Paymentology, the global issuer-processor powering digital-first banks and fintechs, is rolling out PayCredit across Asia Pacific. The advanced credit ledger unifies card issuing and credit logic on a single platform, enabling financial institutions to launch tailored credit products faster, with region-specific configuration and precise control over repayment terms. Flexible credit is surging across Asia Pacific, but legacy infrastructure isn’t keeping pace. In Si...

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Integration brings seamless digital ordering and delivery capabilities to NRS convenience stores, bodegas, and neighborhood retailers nationwide Newark, NJ -- November 2025 -- National Retail Solutions (NRS) announced today that independent retailers in its nationwide point-of-sale (POS) network can now offer their customers remote ordering for delivery or in-store pick-up via the Grubhub app. "We are tremendously excited to announce our integration with Grubhub,” said Elie Y. Katz, Pres...

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Romania, November 2025– Banca Transilvania, leading bank in Romania, and BPC, global leader in payments solutions, have completed the first Romanian pilot of the EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) for payments, enabling cardholders to authenticate online purchases with their new European Digital ID. The project forms part of the EU Digital Wallet Consortium led large‑scale pilot funded by the European Commission to push the agenda of the eIDAS 2 regulation, which requires all EU banks to ...

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London, 13 NOVEMBER 2025—Ebury launches a new mobile app to help clients manage global cash flows on the go. ● Enables clients to manage international payments, FX conversions, and approvals securely from their mobile device ● Provides access to real-time rates for 130+ currencies, balances, and transaction tracking ● Reflects Ebury’s ongoing investment in technology to enhance its global transaction platform Ebury, the leading global fintech specialising in international payme...

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ONEKEY IoT & OT Cybersecurity Report 2025: The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) poses new challenges for organizations, particularly when it comes to defining responsibilities across departments and functions. Düsseldorf, 13 November 2025 – The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) requires industry players to take extensive measures starting this year to ensure the secure development and monitoring of products that can withstand hacker attacks. However, the question of who is responsible for complyin...

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London, United Kingdom - 13th November 2025 - FintechOS today announces FintechOS 8, the world’s first Unified AI ProductOps Platform. FintechOS 8 is purpose-built to help banks and insurers manage the entire financial product lifecycle with unprecedented speed, intelligence, and control. As adoption of AI in Financial Services accelerates, with nearly 70% of FS firms reporting AI-driven revenue increases, embedding generative and agentic AI capabilities in every workflow is crucial for b...

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London, November 13, 2025. My Compliance Centre today announced the launch of Pay Assure, a purpose-built compliance management system created in direct response to the FCA’s heightened supervision of payments and e-money firms. The regulator has recently reinforced expectations around safeguarding, governance and operational resilience, signalling that smaller firms must now meet the same standards as major banks. Pay Assure gives firms the structure, automation and evidence to stay in ...

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