02 Mar 26 @ 11:25

Three months ago, I was approached by marketing representatives of ETC Mining, who paid $2,500 in Bitcoin for native advertising placement. On the surface, the proposition appeared straightforward: a cloud... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:04

Mastercard has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure specialist BVNK in a deal worth up to $1.8 billion, marking one of the clearest signals yet that major card networks are positioning... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial intelligence agents could initiate... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Sweden’s central bank has issued a warning to the country’s banks: expand instant domestic payment services within a year or risk new legislation. The intervention, set out in the Riksbank’s... read more

15 Mar 26 @ 21:02

The European Central Bank has taken an important step in the evolution of Europe’s wholesale financial architecture with the publication of a roadmap for Appia, a long-term initiative designed to... read more

15 Mar 26 @ 21:02

Elon Musk announced that X Money, the payments service being developed inside social media platform X, will enter early public access in April, a move that brings fresh momentum to... read more

15 Mar 26 @ 21:02

Europe’s fintech industry is becoming more formidable, more mature and more strategically important, yet it remains caught in what Finch Capital calls a sovereignty paradox. The region has produced globally... read more

12 Mar 26 @ 18:26

US online retail ended 2025 with another clear gain over the wider retail market, reinforcing the extent to which e-commerce is taking a larger share of everyday consumer spending. New... read more

12 Mar 26 @ 18:21

For years, the credit card industry has pursued a simple ambition: to become the card a consumer reaches for first. Top of wallet became the organising principle for issuers, shaping everything... read more

12 Mar 26 @ 18:20

Revolut’s long-awaited receipt of a full UK banking licence marks a pivotal moment not only for the company itself, but also for the wider evolution of digital banking in Britain.... read more

12 Mar 26 @ 18:18

Mastercard has moved to defend its position in Europe as the political and regulatory debate over payments sovereignty gathers pace. For more than a year, European policymakers, central bankers and... read more

10 Mar 26 @ 17:34

Ireland’s three largest retail banks have joined forces to launch a new peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service designed to strengthen their position against fast-growing fintech rivals. The service, known as Zippay,... read more

10 Mar 26 @ 17:33

Visa has unveiled a new capability within its Visa Acceptance Platform designed to help payment acquirers modernise their transaction processing infrastructure through a single application programming interface (API). The new... read more

10 Mar 26 @ 17:33

Open Banking Limited has highlighted the substantial economic potential of open banking in the United Kingdom, with new research suggesting the technology could ultimately generate up to £43bn in annual... read more

09 Mar 26 @ 14:46

Mastercard has unveiled a new open standard designed to address one of the most pressing challenges in the rise of AI-driven commerce: how to verify that a transaction initiated by... read more

09 Mar 26 @ 14:45

SWIFT has introduced a new international payments framework aimed at significantly improving the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border retail transactions. The initiative, backed by a coalition of more than... read more

09 Mar 26 @ 14:45

Ripple has expanded its enterprise payments platform to support end-to-end money movement across both traditional fiat currencies and stablecoins, marking a further step in the convergence between conventional financial rails... read more

08 Mar 26 @ 13:03

Kraken has achieved a notable milestone in the integration of digital assets with traditional financial infrastructure after its banking subsidiary, Kraken Financial, was granted a Federal Reserve master account. The... read more

08 Mar 26 @ 13:03

Innovate Finance has sharply criticised proposed stablecoin regulations from the Bank of England, arguing that the framework risks undermining the development of a competitive sterling-based stablecoin market. In a response... read more