08 Oct 26 @ 20:03

Plaid is expanding its use of AI across lending, fraud detection and payments, with a new generation of models designed to interpret financial behaviour over time rather than rely on... read more

08 Oct 26 @ 20:02

ANZ has completed a live cross-border corporate treasury transaction using tokenised deposits and Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, in a test aimed at showing how digital money could move between banks without... read more

08 Oct 26 @ 20:01

Mollie has launched a new version of Pay by Bank built on GoCardless’s open banking infrastructure, marking the first major product to emerge since the two companies combined earlier this... read more

06 Oct 26 @ 17:07

New merchants are particularly vulnerable to fraud during their earliest months of trading, with fresh analysis from Fraudio showing that 10.5% of newly observed businesses experienced at least one fraudulent... read more

06 Oct 26 @ 17:06

Citi has launched multi-market instant payments through Swift, allowing bank clients to reach several domestic real-time payment systems through a single account structure and existing Swift connectivity. The service is... read more

06 Oct 26 @ 17:06

HSBC is preparing to launch a Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin under the HSBC RedCoin brand, beginning with retail payment use cases before expanding into corporate and institutional applications. The bank... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Tokenisation is moving rapidly from experimentation towards mainstream financial infrastructure, with Lloyds’ latest Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey showing growing conviction that digital assets will materially change how money and securities... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Some of Europe’s largest domestic payment schemes are joining forces to create a new cross-border network designed to reduce the continent’s reliance on US-controlled card infrastructure. Bancomat, Bizum, the European... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:35

Barclays is extending its use of Anthropic’s Claude AI models across software development, customer support and operational processes as the bank looks to modernise legacy technology and improve efficiency. The... read more

01 Oct 26 @ 08:52

FIS has integrated Spade’s real-time transaction enrichment technology into its debit processing platform, giving issuing banks access to more detailed merchant information at the point a transaction is processed. The... read more

30 Sep 26 @ 13:15

OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing AI valuations into territory previously occupied by only the world’s largest listed technology companies, while simultaneously revealing just how expensive the race to build frontier... read more

30 Sep 26 @ 13:04

The battle over the future of digital money is becoming less about choosing between stablecoins, tokenised bank deposits and central bank money, and increasingly about building infrastructure capable of allowing... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 20:08

Swift is taking aim at one of the most persistent frustrations in international payments: the need for consumers to enter unfamiliar account details when sending money abroad. The messaging network... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 20:07

Mambu and Mastercard have formed a strategic partnership designed to make it easier for banks to launch and scale cross-border payment services without undertaking complex infrastructure projects. Under the agreement,... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 13:03

Citi and Coinbase are deepening their partnership as the boundary between conventional banking infrastructure and stablecoin payments continues to narrow. Under the expanded arrangement, Coinbase will use Citi’s Virtual Account... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:53

Six major banks have joined forces to establish principles for trusted agentic commerce, warning that the rapid adoption of AI shopping agents could outpace existing safeguards around fraud, scams, privacy... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:52

Seven major UK financial institutions have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenised sterling deposits, marking an important step in Britain’s attempt to move programmable money from experimentation into... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:51

Revolut has completed a three-day UK pilot of its Pay with Smile facial recognition checkout, giving customers at selected London cafés the ability to make in-store payments simply by looking... read more