Daily News

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

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

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

17 Sep 26 @ 16:55

Nearly 1,000 US merchants have urged a federal judge to reject the latest proposed settlement in the long-running battle over Visa and Mastercard interchange fees, arguing that the agreement offers... read more

15 Sep 26 @ 17:05

Artificial intelligence is already embedded across European banking. More than 85 per cent of banks supervised by European authorities now use AI, according to the European Central Bank. The next... read more

15 Sep 26 @ 17:05

The European Central Bank is inviting online and mobile merchants to participate in its forthcoming digital euro pilot, moving the project another step closer to testing how a central bank... read more