ACCEPTANCE & PROCESSING

Payrexx launched its first branded payment terminal range in partnership with Newland Payment Technology, offering merchants pre-configured Android SmartPOS devices starting with the entry-level Newland N910 Pro. The terminals support Visa, Mastercard and Switzerland’s TWINT scheme, include optional SIM connectivity, and run on Newland’s TOMS platform for remote deployment, diagnostics and updates. The launch signals continued consolidation of hardware branding among mid-sized European PSPs, as providers seek tighter control over the merchant-facing terminal experience rather than reselling generic hardware.

Teya launched the Teya Pro card machine for UK and European small merchants, an Android-based terminal that completes transactions in under 1.7 seconds, supporting contactless, chip-and-PIN and mobile wallet payments, plus Tap to Pay via a merchant’s own phone, and integrates with more than 50 electronic point-of-sale systems. The launch underlines how SME-focused acquirers increasingly compete on bundled banking features rather than processing speed alone, as terminal hardware itself becomes commoditised.

CORPORATE ACTIVITY

Trust Payments partnered with felloh, integrating its payment infrastructure with felloh’s travel finance-operations platform to give merchants a single view across bookings, payment processing, settlement and reporting. The integration automates margin recovery through felloh’s intelligent surcharging capability and reduces manual reconciliation across disparate systems. The deal reflects a broader push among UK and European acquirers to bundle reconciliation and finance-ops tooling alongside core acceptance, as travel merchants’ payment complexity increasingly outstrips what processing alone can resolve.

DIGITAL & eCOMMERCE

Fiserv and Mastercard deepened their global partnership for enterprise merchants, agreeing to integrate Mastercard Merchant Cloud into Fiserv’s Commerce Hub. The arrangement gives eligible enterprise merchants and platforms a single connection to Mastercard’s merchant services across online, mobile and in-store channels, pairing Fiserv’s acquiring capability with Mastercard’s value-added services and tooling intended to support agentic commerce. By embedding services directly inside an acquirer’s orchestration platform, Mastercard reaches merchant revenue historically owned by acquirers and gateways, narrowing the value-added services space in which European acquirers have been defending margin against processing-fee compression.

AGENTIC COMMERCE

ABN AMRO agreed a strategic partnership with Mistral, giving the Dutch bank access to the frontier models to build AI applications developed and governed within Europe. The deal covers cybersecurity and compliance applications, against bank requirements for security, transparency, data privacy and regulatory compliance, aiming to reduce dependence on non-European technology suppliers and supporting European digital resilience and strategic autonomy. European institutions are extending the case for domestic control from schemes and processing into the software layer, which will shape procurement of the fraud, orchestration and risk tooling that acquirers and PSPs buy.

MOBILE MONEY/WALLETS

Wero pushed its Luxembourg launch to September, delaying the European Payments Initiative’s rollout from 1 July to allow participating banks and local infrastructure providers to complete extended use-case testing. EPI framed the move as aligning all parties, including non-bank players, so that peer-to-peer transfers, invoice payments, in-store and online acceptance are verified before go-live. Wero will replace Payconiq in Luxembourg, with merchant migration scheduled for September. The slip illustrates how far pan-European A2A acceptance now depends on migrating incumbent domestic schemes rather than greenfield adoption.

OPEN BANKING & PSD

Data Energy adopted GoCardless’s Recurring Pay by Bank to automate utility billing, deploying the open banking-based account-to-account (A2A) solution, built on the UK Payments Initiative’s new A2A scheme, to collect flexible recurring meter top-up payments directly from customer bank accounts. Recurring Pay by Bank adds automatic fallback to Direct Debit where a bank payment fails, plus a bank-recognition feature. The deal illustrates utilities’ shift away from card rails toward bank-to-bank collection for recurring bills, as UK open banking infrastructure matures enough to support fallback logic and payer-recognition tooling that Direct Debit alone cannot offer.