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13 Oct 25 @ 16:13

The payments industry is entering a new phase of transformation — one driven not by cards or mobile wallets, but by autonomous agentic commerce agents. Two of the most significant... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 15:51

The United Kingdom’s retail payments landscape is undergoing a rapid and irreversible shift. What was once dominated by cards and cash is now being reshaped by mobile wallets and Buy... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 12:55

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that the bank led stablecoin race was hotting up as nine of Europe’s largest banks unveiled plans to issue a euro-denominated stablecoin, the... read more

10 Oct 25 @ 15:05

The payments industry’s long-standing battle against fraud may be producing unintended casualties. According to new data from Chargebacks911, the cost of false declines—legitimate transactions incorrectly rejected by fraud filters—has now... read more

10 Oct 25 @ 13:17

A high-stakes bidding war appears to be brewing between crypto exchange Coinbase and payments giant Mastercard over the acquisition of BVNK, the London-based fintech firm building enterprise-grade stablecoin payment infrastructure.... read more

10 Oct 25 @ 13:04

Generative artificial intelligence has changed the pace and scale of financial fraud. What was once a slow, reactive contest between banks and cybercriminals has become a real-time arms race —... read more

09 Oct 25 @ 16:16

Payment systems have become the nervous system of the consumer economy. Every transaction at a supermarket checkout, hotel reception, or café till depends on complex networks of hardware, software, and... read more

09 Oct 25 @ 12:48

Global financial authorities are set to fall short of the G20’s ambitious goal to make cross-border payments faster, cheaper and more transparent by 2027. This is according to an update... read more

09 Oct 25 @ 12:14

A simmering policy debate in Washington over whether stablecoin issuers should be allowed to pay interest has burst into the open. Coinbase and the Blockchain Association have launched a campaign... read more

07 Oct 25 @ 16:45

The long-running debate over “who should pay” for Open Banking has re-emerged, reignited by a series of developments in the US that could reshape the economics of data access. JPMorgan... read more

07 Oct 25 @ 15:59

OpenAI has made another strategic move that signals a widening of its ambitions far beyond conversational AI. The company has acquired Roi, a personal investing app that combines portfolio management... read more

07 Oct 25 @ 15:31

Worldpay has unveiled its Embedded Finance Engine, a suite of lending, banking and commercial card issuing products designed for software platforms seeking to expand their financial services offering without the... read more