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

10 Sep 26 @ 15:45

Artificial intelligence is already changing how consumers shop, but the leap from AI-assisted discovery to autonomous payments remains some distance away, according to Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney. Speaking at... read more

10 Sep 26 @ 15:44

US Bank has completed a live cross-border transaction using its own dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming one of the latest major lenders to test whether blockchain technology can improve the movement of... read more

10 Sep 26 @ 15:43

Stablecoins are moving trillions of dollars across public blockchains, but the numbers risk giving a misleading impression of their penetration into mainstream payments. Visa’s Onchain Analytics platform recently recorded $4.6tn... read more

08 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Anthropic has launched a blueprint enabling retailers to build AI-powered shopping and merchant agents using Claude, with support from Visa, Mastercard and Accenture. The framework is aimed at retailers, travel... read more

07 Sep 26 @ 20:20

Mobile wallet adoption continued to accelerate in the UK last year, with almost two-thirds of adults now registered for at least one service as digital payments become increasingly entrenched in... read more

07 Sep 26 @ 20:12

Saudi Arabia’s PayTabs has agreed to acquire Amazon Payment Services’ operations across the Middle East and North Africa in a deal valued at more than $100 million, in a transaction... read more

06 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil are examining whether Europe’s TIPS instant-payment infrastructure could be connected with Brazil’s hugely successful Pix network, potentially creating a new real-time... read more

06 Sep 26 @ 19:31

Wero is moving further beyond its origins as a peer-to-peer payment service, with Orange becoming the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill payments through the European Payments Initiative’s... read more

06 Sep 26 @ 19:30

Revolut has secured conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national bank, taking the London-founded fintech a significant step closer to... read more