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27 Sep 26 @ 18:53

Six major banks have joined forces to establish principles for trusted agentic commerce, warning that the rapid adoption of AI shopping agents could outpace existing safeguards around fraud, scams, privacy... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:52

Seven major UK financial institutions have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenised sterling deposits, marking an important step in Britain’s attempt to move programmable money from experimentation into... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:51

Revolut has completed a three-day UK pilot of its Pay with Smile facial recognition checkout, giving customers at selected London cafés the ability to make in-store payments simply by looking... read more

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Banks could lose as much as $230bn in payments revenue as stablecoins, tokenised deposits and central bank digital currencies move from experimentation into commercial use, according to Capgemini’s latest World... read more

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, front companies, commodity revenues, promissory notes and stablecoins. A Financial Times investigation... read more

24 Sep 26 @ 16:28

PayPal has partnered with Meta to enable users of the technology group’s new Muse personal AI agent to shop and check out across PayPal’s merchant network, adding another major payments... read more

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launching Pontes to allow wholesale tokenised asset transactions to settle in... read more

23 Sep 26 @ 14:33

Mastercard and Danske Bank have completed Denmark’s first payment carried out entirely by an artificial intelligence agent on behalf of a consumer, providing another indication that agentic commerce is moving... read more

22 Sep 26 @ 11:49

Most of the payments industry’s attention over the past decade has gone to the front end of the transaction. Card-present acceptance, tokenisation, wallet provisioning, real-time account-to-account transfers. The disbursement side,... read more

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent’s economy while intensifying debate over payments innovation and competition from overseas sellers.... read more

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

21 Sep 26 @ 19:09

European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has reportedly personally intervened to derail Binance’s attempt to secure an EU-wide crypto licence through Greece, according to the Wall Street Journal, raising fresh... read more