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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

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

24 Aug 26 @ 19:24

HSBC and Standard Chartered have completed the first live interbank tokenised deposit transaction using Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, marking another step towards integrating digital money into established banking infrastructure. The transaction... read more

18 Aug 26 @ 18:11

Mastercard is seeking to resolve a dispute with Brazilian merchant acquirers over hundreds of millions of dollars in unsettled card payments following the collapse of Will Financeira, better known as... read more

18 Aug 26 @ 18:11

PayPal has reportedly resumed takeover discussions with a consortium including Stripe and private equity group Advent International, potentially setting the stage for one of the largest deals in the payments... read more

05 Aug 26 @ 16:36

Fiserv and Mastercard have strengthened their long-standing partnership with a new global agreement designed to simplify payment acceptance for enterprise merchants operating across multiple markets and sales channels. The collaboration... read more

04 Aug 26 @ 18:09

Lloyds Banking Group and CaixaBank have completed a series of live tokenised deposit transactions as part of Project Agorá, marking another important milestone in the evolution of wholesale cross-border payments.... read more

22 Jul 26 @ 19:55

Mastercard has launched Wallet Services, a suite of software tools and services intended to help banks, fintechs and digital platforms add contactless payment functionality directly to their mobile applications. Mastercard... read more

15 Jul 26 @ 16:28

Stripe and private equity group Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint $53 billion bid for PayPal, in a proposed transaction that could significantly reshape the digital payments market. The... read more

13 Jul 26 @ 20:06

The UK government has formally designated four of the world’s largest cloud service providers as Critical Third Parties (CTPs), placing them under direct supervision by the country’s financial regulators in... read more

01 Jul 26 @ 21:24

Just weeks after Payments Industry Intelligence reported on ING, Worldline and Mastercard’s completion of Europe’s first live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in a production environment, another milestone has been reached... read more