Bottomline's Payments Fraud Defense recognized in Chartis RiskTech100(R) 2027 ranking. Recognition highlights Bottomline's innovative approach to helping financial institutions detect evolving threats and strengthen fraud prevention. PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Oct. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Bottomline, a global leader in business payments, announced that its Payments Fraud Defense solution has been recognized in the Chartis RiskTech100(R) 2027 ranking. The annual evaluation assesses risk technology providers on strategic vision, market impact, innovation, customer success, and execution. "Bottomline leapfrogged many regulars into the RiskTech100(R) 2027 ranking," said Sid Dash, Chief Researcher at Chartis. "The company's solutions for combatting payments fraud and automating payments, as well as its business payments network, were key to this achievement." Financial institutions face increasingly sophisticated fraud attacks, rising operational complexity, and mounting pressure to stop financial crime without disrupting legitimate payments. Payments Fraud Defense addresses these challenges by combining intelligence, analytics, and workflow support to help organizations identify suspicious activity earlier, strengthen fraud controls across payment channels, and reduce risk exposure. "Fraud threats are evolving continuously, while risk teams are expected to react faster than ever," said Dalit Amitai, Head of Product & Technology, Cyberfraud and Risk Management, Bottomline. "Recognition in the Chartis RiskTech100 reinforces the importance of adaptive fraud prevention strategies that help organizations detect emerging threats earlier, respond with greater precision, and maintain trust in an increasingly complex payments environment." Payments Fraud Defense brings behavioral analytics, interdiction precision, analytics tuning, and session replay together in a single platform. Its AI-driven capabilities analyze behavioral and transaction signals to help identify emerging fraud patterns, enable faster, more explainable decisions, and streamline investigations. Designed to complement existing fraud systems, this unified approach helps financial institutions strengthen controls and adapt to evolving threats. The Chartis recognition independently validates Bottomline's commitment to helping financial institutions combat financial crime while supporting secure, efficient payment operations. About Bottomline Bottomline helps businesses transform the way they pay and get paid. A global leader in business payments and cash management, Bottomline's secure, comprehensive solutions modernize payments for businesses and financial institutions globally. With more than 35 years of experience and more than $16 trillion in payments processed annually, Bottomline is committed to helping customers drive measurable business outcomes by reimagining business payments and delivering solutions that add to the bottom line. Bottomline is a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, one of the largest software private equity firms in the world. For more information, visit Bottomline.

Bottomline wins Best SaaS Provider of the Year for Commercial Banking from The Digital Banker. Award recognizes Bottomline's unified platform for modernizing business banking, payments and fraud prevention. PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Sept. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Bottomline, a global leader in business payments, has been named Best SaaS Provider of the Year (Software) - Commercial Banking in The Digital Banker's 2026 Global BankTech Awards. The recognition honors Bottomline's Commercial Digital Banking Platform, a SaaS ecosystem designed to help financial institutions modernize business banking, payments, cash management, and fraud prevention. Commercial banks are under pressure to modernize outdated technology while meeting business customers' expectations for secure, intuitive and real-time digital experiences. Solutions adapted from retail banking or pieced together from multiple systems can make it difficult to manage user access, approval workflows, high-value payments and reporting across the organization. Bottomline addresses this challenge with a unified commercial banking platform that integrates payments, cash management, fraud prevention and digital banking. From a single platform, financial institutions can offer ACH, wire and real-time payments; support digital assets and tokenization; access account reporting; and customize workflows. Its interoperable architecture connects with core banking, payment and third-party systems, helping banks modernize without creating another technology silo. "This recognition reflects our focus on helping financial institutions move beyond a basic digital channel to create a more connected commercial banking experience," said Jessica Cheney, VP, Banking Solutions and Growth, Bottomline. "By bringing together modern payments, cash management, fraud prevention, intelligence and broad network access, we help banks modernize with confidence, operate more efficiently, strengthen customer relationships and support businesses of all sizes." The award recognizes Bottomline's innovative approach to commercial banking modernization, combining digital banking, payments, intelligence, connectivity, and fraud defense in a managed SaaS environment that can support the distinct needs of businesses ranging from small and mid-size to large commercial enterprises. It reinforces Bottomline's role as a strategic partner to financial institutions seeking to improve efficiency, strengthen customer relationships and create new sources of non-interest revenue. About the Global BankTech Awards The Global BankTech Awards, organized by The Digital Banker, honor and celebrate the world's preeminent and ground-breaking technology companies and their contribution to technology-based enhancements, initiatives and innovations within the financial services industry that are streamlining operational processes, automating workflow and re-engineering business models, while materially driving productivity gains. To learn more about the awards, visit Global BankTech Awards - The Digital Banker. About Bottomline Bottomline helps businesses transform the way they pay and get paid. A global leader in business payments and cash management, Bottomline's secure, comprehensive solutions modernize payments for businesses and financial institutions globally. With over 35 years of experience, moving more than $16 trillion in payments annually, Bottomline is committed to driving impactful results for customers by reimagining business payments and delivering solutions that add to the bottom line. Bottomline is a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, one of the largest software private equity firms in the world, with more than $170 billion in assets under management. For more information, visit www.bottomline.com.

Bottomline launches Global Pay Connect to provide financial institutions with a future-proofed payment messaging ecosystem. Global Pay Connect is designed to unify global and domestic payment connectivity, with intelligent data, fraud controls and interoperability across traditional and emerging payment networks. Portsmouth, NH (September 17, 2026) - Bottomline, a global leader in business payments, has launched Global Pay Connect, a next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, to help financial institutions extend their payments infrastructure beyond traditional connectivity through API-enabled services and third-party data integration. The platform provides a resilient, intelligent and adaptable foundation for the future of payment messaging. Financial institutions are being pushed to support real-time payments, ISO 20022 compliance, cross-border transparency and emerging payment models. Outdated systems are making this a challenging environment to navigate. Bottomline research recently found 40% of CFOs cite outdated infrastructure as the biggest barrier to adopting real-time payments, and only 28% describe SaaS adoption across their institution as modern, API-enabled and end-to-end. To address this, Bottomline has launched Global Pay Connect to help financial institutions manage interoperability across traditional and emerging blockchain-based payment networks, providing: * Connectivity across major global and domestic payment networks, including Swift, SEPA, SIC, Bacs, CHAPS, CHIPS, Lynx, EBICS and host-to-host connections. * Modernization through ISO 20022 transformation, payment data enrichment and Message Vault capabilities. * Intelligence through real-time visibility into payment activity and AI-enabled insights that help institutions secure more value from payment data. * Control through operational resilience, compliance and fraud prevention in a single, adaptable platform. Bottomline has also entered into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Chainlink, a market-leading blockchain ecosystem player, marking a significant milestone for Bottomline's Blockchain and Digital Assets strategy. Global Pay Connect enables interoperability through Chainlink, connecting banks seamlessly to multiple blockchain networks through a single, network-agnostic integration model via their existing Bottomline connectivity. Vitus Rotzer, Global Head of Banking GTM, Bottomline, said, "Financial institutions are trying to build a foundation for richer operational intelligence and emerging payment models. The challenge has moved from connecting to payment networks, towards institutions needing infrastructure that can adapt to real-time payments, API-enabled services and evolving payment models. Global Pay Connect brings these capabilities together in a single platform, so organizations can simplify operations today, while building a foundation for the future of payments." Designed for the future of payments, Global Pay Connect provides financial institutions with a flexible foundation to adapt to evolving market, regulatory and customer demands. Rotzer adds, "Global Pay Connect is the bridge between today's payment infrastructure requirements and the future evolution of payments ecosystems. It will help institutions deliver greater value from payment data through intelligent validation and AI-enhanced insights, while supporting emerging payment models, such as digital assets and tokenization." Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, said, "As a top-three Swift service provider, Bottomline provides critical payment connectivity to the world's largest financial institutions. By combining Bottomline's reach with Chainlink's infrastructure, Global Pay Connect enables hundreds of financial institutions to use their existing infrastructure to access onchain payment rails through a single, network-agnostic connection." Global Pay Connect is one of many solutions Bottomline brings to banks and corporates around the world to help streamline, protect and innovate payments. Bottomline is attending Sibos Miami 2026 where you can find out more about the Global Pay Connect platform at booth #I067. About Bottomline Bottomline helps businesses transform the way they pay and get paid. A global leader in business payments and cash management, Bottomline's secure, comprehensive solutions modernize payments for businesses and financial institutions globally. With over 35 years of experience, moving more than $16 trillion in payments annually, Bottomline is committed to driving impactful results for customers by reimagining business payments and delivering solutions that add to the bottom line. Bottomline is a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, one of the largest software private equity firms in the world, with more than $183 billion in assets under management. For more information visit www.bottomline.com. 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