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28 Oct 25 @ 10:19

Mastercard and PayPal have announced a collaboration that could define how consumers and businesses transact in the emerging world of agentic commerce. At the heart of the initiative is the... read more

24 Oct 25 @ 14:31

Europe’s ambitious digital identity programme has reached a critical milestone with the launch of Aptitude, one of the European Commission’s new Large-Scale Pilots (LSPs) for the EU Digital Identity Wallet... read more

24 Oct 25 @ 14:13

For years, industry pundits predicted the death of the point-of-sale (POS) terminal, replaced by a future of frictionless payments and invisible checkout. Yet for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the... read more

24 Oct 25 @ 10:44

Artificial intelligence has become the latest weapon in the arsenal of organised fraudsters, driving a sharp rise in fraud and scams across the UK. According to new data from UK... read more

23 Oct 25 @ 17:32

Visa’s newly implemented Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) has officially taken effect, bringing one of the most sweeping overhauls to dispute and fraud oversight in recent years. The global framework consolidates... read more

23 Oct 25 @ 17:16

Artificial intelligence could erase up to $170 billion in global banking profits over the next decade, according to McKinsey & Company’s Global Banking Annual Review 2025. The consultancy warns that... read more

23 Oct 25 @ 15:23

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved Global Payments’ proposed $22.7 billion acquisition of Worldpay, marking a major milestone for one of the largest payments industry mergers in... read more

22 Oct 25 @ 16:06

Cybersecurity has climbed to the top of UK finance leaders’ risk agendas, with 99% of CFOs reporting a payments-related cyber incident in the past two years, according to new research... read more

22 Oct 25 @ 16:05

The American Fintech Council (AFC) has entered the already muddy waters of the US Open Banking market, urging the CFPB to maintain the principles underpinning Open Banking and protect consumers’... read more

22 Oct 25 @ 15:57

TrueLayer, Europe’s largest Pay by Bank network, has announced the acquisition of Zimpler, the fastest-growing Pay by Bank provider in the Nordics, in a landmark deal that consolidates TrueLayer’s position... read more

22 Oct 25 @ 08:58

Allica Bank, the UK’s fastest-growing fintech, has announced the acquisition of Kriya, a leading SME lending and embedded finance specialist, in a deal that significantly expands its reach into the... read more

21 Oct 25 @ 17:18

Japan’s three largest financial groups — Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), and Mizuho Financial Group — are collaborating to issue a stablecoin pegged to the... read more