22 Oct 26 @ 18:16

The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering barriers for banks, fintechs and wallet providers seeking to... read more

22 Oct 26 @ 18:14

Finance leaders across the UK and Ireland are under growing pressure to adopt artificial intelligence faster than they are comfortable with, even as confidence in the technology itself remains high.... read more

22 Oct 26 @ 18:12

Fintech money transfer providers have substantially reduced the cost of cross-border payments compared with traditional bank wires, while stablecoins remain constrained by conversion fees, liquidity and the continued need for... read more

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration since Mastercard acquired the stablecoin infrastructure... read more

20 Oct 26 @ 09:05

The European Payments Council is developing a common framework to govern how payment service providers accept EU Digital Identity Wallets for strong customer authentication, as Europe prepares for large-scale deployment... read more

20 Oct 26 @ 09:04

UniCredit has secured approval from the European Central Bank to take a controlling stake in Commerzbank, clearing one of the most significant regulatory hurdles in its pursuit of the German... read more

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank looks to deepen its use... read more

15 Oct 26 @ 19:37

The Bank of England and International Monetary Fund have issued unusually stark warnings over the systemic threat posed by cyber attacks, arguing that a serious incident affecting payments or access... read more

15 Oct 26 @ 19:36

Stablecoin payments provider Noah has secured both a MiCA crypto-asset service provider licence and a PSD2 payment institution licence, giving it a regulated framework to offer stablecoin and fiat payment... read more

13 Oct 26 @ 20:13

The next phase of stablecoin competition may be decided less by who issues digital money and more by who controls access to customers. Recent moves from SAP and Samsung point... read more

13 Oct 26 @ 20:11

Latvia is intensifying efforts to position itself as a leading European fintech centre, seeking to compete more directly with neighbouring Lithuania and Estonia for companies looking for a base inside... read more

13 Oct 26 @ 20:10

FIS has launched a new agentic AI suite aimed at helping finance teams manage collections, liquidity, credit risk and cash flow from a single intelligence layer. The Agentic Insights Suite... read more

11 Oct 26 @ 17:42

Mastercard is introducing new offline payment requirements across Europe from 2027, allowing cardholders to continue making essential purchases during internet or power outages. From February 2027, all newly issued Mastercard... read more

11 Oct 26 @ 17:41

American Express National Bank has been fined $350m by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency after regulators identified significant weaknesses in its anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act... read more

11 Oct 26 @ 17:40

Banks and securities firms across the UK and European Union are entering the final year of preparations for the move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, with regulators and... read more

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