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10 Feb 26 @ 15:31

Amazon’s launch of Pay by Bank in the UK marks a significant moment for account-to-account (A2A) payments in e-commerce. By allowing customers to pay directly from their bank accounts without... read more

09 Feb 26 @ 18:07

Alphabet is no stranger to outsized investment cycles, but its latest capital expenditure plans signal something more structural. With projected spending of between $175bn and $185bn in 2026, Alphabet is... read more

09 Feb 26 @ 17:14

Warnings about bitcoin excess are hardly new, but when they come from Michael Burry, markets tend to pay closer attention. The investor famed for anticipating the US subprime mortgage collapse... read more

09 Feb 26 @ 13:24

Europe’s long-running ambition to reclaim control over its payments infrastructure has taken a tangible step forward. A new memorandum of understanding signed by Bancomat, Bizum, SIBS, Vipps MobilePay and EPI... read more

05 Feb 26 @ 10:06

When Western governments cut major Russian banks off from the Swift messaging system in the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, they hoped to choke the country’s ability to... read more

04 Feb 26 @ 17:17

For decades, the POS terminal was a steadfast but unremarkable fixture of retail life — the small, grey box whose sole purpose was to approve or decline a card transaction.... read more

04 Feb 26 @ 16:51

Mobile wallets were once presented as sleek digital accessories — a faster way to tap in store, a smooth way to pay online. That era has passed. Today, the wallet... read more

03 Feb 26 @ 18:04

Digital asset payments are edging closer to everyday commerce as Lydian launches a new application enabling cryptocurrency acceptance across Clover devices for crypto POS payments. The move allows merchants using... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:37

OpenAI has raised a pointed warning about an underappreciated vulnerability in agentic AI systems: hyperlinks. As AI agents move beyond conversation into execution — browsing the web, retrieving data and... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:20

A quiet but consequential struggle is under way at the heart of the global financial system. On one side sit Wall Street’s largest banks, guardians of deposits, credit creation and... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:03

Visa has delivered a solid set of first-quarter results, comfortably exceeding market expectations as consumer spending remained resilient across its global network. Yet the numbers were not enough to placate... read more

29 Jan 26 @ 21:31

Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from novelty to infrastructure in retail, and nowhere was that more apparent than at Retail’s Big Show in New York. While retailers once dominated the... read more