07 Jul 26 @ 19:12

Crédit Agricole has acquired Worldline’s shareholding in French merchant payments joint venture CAWL, taking full ownership of the business just two years after the partnership was established. While financial terms... read more

06 Jul 26 @ 20:34

European banks risk falling behind in the race towards real-time payments and faster securities settlement unless they accelerate investment in automation and modern payments infrastructure, according to new research from... read more

06 Jul 26 @ 20:32

Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and NatWest are set to become among the first financial institutions globally to implement Swift‘s new consumer payments framework, marking an important milestone in the evolution... read more

06 Jul 26 @ 20:31

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has unveiled proposals that could significantly reshape the mobile payments landscape by requiring Apple and Google to give app developers greater freedom to... read more

01 Jul 26 @ 21:25

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued one of its strongest warnings yet on the risks posed by stablecoins, arguing that their current structure falls short of the core... read more

01 Jul 26 @ 21:24

Just weeks after Payments Industry Intelligence reported on ING, Worldline and Mastercard’s completion of Europe’s first live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in a production environment, another milestone has been reached... read more

30 Jun 26 @ 07:06

A technology outage at Worldpay left thousands of UK consumers unable to make card payments on one of the busiest evenings of the summer, disrupting transactions at supermarkets, pubs and... read more

30 Jun 26 @ 07:05

Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide Building Society, NatWest Group and Santander UK are working with UK Finance in the development of a voluntary digital verification service that could transform... read more

30 Jun 26 @ 07:04

Europe’s landmark crypto regulation is entering its enforcement phase, with Binance becoming one of the highest-profile exchanges to be caught by the bloc’s new licensing regime after failing to secure... read more

25 Jun 26 @ 19:24

The European Union has taken a significant step towards creating a digital euro, with the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee approving its negotiating position on the legislation... read more

25 Jun 26 @ 19:24

New research from Commerce and PayPal suggests consumers are increasingly willing to let AI help them shop, but widespread adoption of agentic commerce will depend on payment security, transparency and... read more

25 Jun 26 @ 19:24

After several years of volatile funding conditions and slowing investment, the global fintech industry is entering a new phase of expansion. According to McKinsey & Company, fintech revenues reached approximately... read more

23 Jun 26 @ 18:52

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest banking groups joining the organisation and committing to... read more

23 Jun 26 @ 18:52

The regulatory framework governing stablecoins in the United States continues to take shape, with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) proposing new rules that would subject stablecoin... read more

23 Jun 26 @ 18:51

AI is rapidly shifting from a future ambition to a measurable business driver across the banking industry, and Banco Santander is positioning itself at the forefront of that transition. The... read more

22 Jun 26 @ 19:59

The Bank of England has significantly revised its proposed framework for sterling-backed stablecoins, abandoning controversial holding limits in favour of a broader issuance cap as it seeks to balance financial... read more

22 Jun 26 @ 19:59

Visa and Revolut have announced a major expansion of Click to Pay across Europe, a move that could significantly accelerate the adoption of tokenised online payments and reshape consumer expectations... read more

22 Jun 26 @ 19:58

Google has launched legal action against a sophisticated cybercrime operation accused of using artificial intelligence to conduct large-scale phishing attacks, marking one of the most significant private-sector interventions yet against... read more