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21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent’s economy while intensifying debate over payments innovation and competition from overseas sellers.... read more

21 Sep 26 @ 19:10

Britain’s payments overhaul is moving from policy to execution, with the new UK Payments Delivery Company launching an equity raise to finance the development of the country’s next-generation retail payments... read more

21 Sep 26 @ 19:09

European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has reportedly personally intervened to derail Binance’s attempt to secure an EU-wide crypto licence through Greece, according to the Wall Street Journal, raising fresh... read more

17 Sep 26 @ 16:57

Artificial intelligence is transforming online fraud from a collection of individual scams into something resembling an industrialised criminal supply chain, allowing attackers to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. New... read more

17 Sep 26 @ 16:57

Hackers claiming responsibility for Revolut’s recent data breach say they deliberately targeted 680 customers with significant cryptocurrency holdings, adding a troubling new dimension to an incident already under investigation by... read more

17 Sep 26 @ 16:55

Nearly 1,000 US merchants have urged a federal judge to reject the latest proposed settlement in the long-running battle over Visa and Mastercard interchange fees, arguing that the agreement offers... read more

15 Sep 26 @ 17:05

Artificial intelligence is already embedded across European banking. More than 85 per cent of banks supervised by European authorities now use AI, according to the European Central Bank. The next... read more

15 Sep 26 @ 17:05

The European Central Bank is inviting online and mobile merchants to participate in its forthcoming digital euro pilot, moving the project another step closer to testing how a central bank... read more

15 Sep 26 @ 17:04

Revolut has disclosed sensitive information belonging to a small number of customers after fraudsters used a legitimate government agency email domain to submit apparently authentic requests for customer data. The... read more

13 Sep 26 @ 19:35

Consumers may be embracing artificial intelligence for shopping, but most are not yet prepared to let an AI agent control the final and most sensitive part of the journey: payment.... read more

13 Sep 26 @ 19:33

Britain’s payments industry overwhelmingly supports the government’s attempt to modernise the country’s retail payment infrastructure, but confidence in its ability to deliver the transformation is considerably less certain. Research from... read more

13 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The World Bank Group is putting its balance sheet behind a $700mn initiative designed to help banks and fintechs in emerging markets overcome one of the less visible barriers to... read more