Retail Banking

02 Jun 26 @ 20:27

Mastercard has taken another significant step in its push to modernise cross-border money movement, joining a pilot programme designed to enable instant cross-currency payments on the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment... read more

27 May 26 @ 19:59

Italy’s state-backed lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti is preparing to increase its holding in payments giant Nexi, signalling Rome’s determination to retain influence over one of Europe’s most strategically important... read more

06 May 26 @ 16:45

Citi has introduced Arc, a new internal platform designed to help the bank build, govern and scale artificial intelligence agents across its global business. The launch marks a further step... read more

05 May 26 @ 16:51

The European Payments Initiative is facing an uncomfortable test of its own strategic logic. Created to build a pan-European payments alternative to the dominant US card networks, the bank-backed consortium... read more

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

ANZ has moved to take full ownership of its Australian merchant payments joint venture with Worldline, underlining the growing strategic importance of acquiring and transaction banking to the country’s major... read more

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

Cashless payments are becoming an increasingly important marker of financial modernisation across emerging market and developing economies, with new data from the Bank for International Settlements showing a sharp rise... read more

28 Apr 26 @ 18:14

ACI Worldwide has launched a major expansion of its Connetic platform in the US, positioning the service as a response to the growing complexity faced by banks operating across multiple... read more

27 Apr 26 @ 12:53

Nexi and Visa have unveiled a strategic partnership in Germany that signals a broader change in how banks are expected to modernise their card issuing operations. Rather than continuing to... read more

02 Apr 26 @ 18:44

Visa is stepping up its effort to modernise one of the most cumbersome parts of the payments chain, launching a suite of artificial intelligence-powered dispute resolution tools aimed at merchants,... read more

31 Mar 26 @ 19:08

The Payments Association has escalated pressure on ministers and regulators to confront what it describes as a structural failure at the heart of the UK’s fraud regime: the platforms where... read more

24 Mar 26 @ 17:43

Venmo is making its most significant international move since launch, allowing users in the United States to send and receive money with PayPal account holders across 90 markets. The integration... read more

19 Mar 26 @ 15:00

PayPal’s decision to extend access to its PYUSD stablecoin across 70 markets is more than a product expansion. It is a carefully judged attempt to position stablecoins as a practical... read more