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Revolut completes UK ‘Pay With Smile’ facial recognition payments pilot

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

Banks face $230bn payments revenue threat as Tokenised money goes mainstream

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

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

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

PayPal joins Meta’s Muse as Agentic Commerce moves beyond the demo stage

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

ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

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

Mastercard and Danske Bank complete Denmark’s first AI Agent payment

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

The closing window: why mortgage disbursement is still the weakest link in consumer payments

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

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

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

UK Banks back £50m push for payments infrastructure

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

lntervention in Binance MiCA bid raises questions

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

AI is industrialising E-Commerce Fraud

17 Sep 26 @ 16:57

Artificial intelligence is transforming online fraud from a collection of individual scams into something resembling an industrialised criminal supply chain, allowing attackers to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. New... read more

Revolut Hackers claim 680 ‘Crypto Whales’ targeted

17 Sep 26 @ 16:57

Hackers claiming responsibility for Revolut’s recent data breach say they deliberately targeted 680 customers with significant cryptocurrency holdings, adding a troubling new dimension to an incident already under investigation by... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more