05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Tokenisation is moving rapidly from experimentation towards mainstream financial infrastructure, with Lloyds’ latest Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey showing growing conviction that digital assets will materially change how money and securities... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Some of Europe’s largest domestic payment schemes are joining forces to create a new cross-border network designed to reduce the continent’s reliance on US-controlled card infrastructure. Bancomat, Bizum, the European... read more

01 Oct 26 @ 08:52

FIS has integrated Spade’s real-time transaction enrichment technology into its debit processing platform, giving issuing banks access to more detailed merchant information at the point a transaction is processed. The... read more

30 Sep 26 @ 13:04

The battle over the future of digital money is becoming less about choosing between stablecoins, tokenised bank deposits and central bank money, and increasingly about building infrastructure capable of allowing... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 20:08

Swift is taking aim at one of the most persistent frustrations in international payments: the need for consumers to enter unfamiliar account details when sending money abroad. The messaging network... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 20:07

Mambu and Mastercard have formed a strategic partnership designed to make it easier for banks to launch and scale cross-border payment services without undertaking complex infrastructure projects. Under the agreement,... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 13:03

Citi and Coinbase are deepening their partnership as the boundary between conventional banking infrastructure and stablecoin payments continues to narrow. Under the expanded arrangement, Coinbase will use Citi’s Virtual Account... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:52

Seven major UK financial institutions have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenised sterling deposits, marking an important step in Britain’s attempt to move programmable money from experimentation into... read more

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

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

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

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

15 Sep 26 @ 17:04

Revolut has disclosed sensitive information belonging to a small number of customers after fraudsters used a legitimate government agency email domain to submit apparently authentic requests for customer data. The... read more

13 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The World Bank Group is putting its balance sheet behind a $700mn initiative designed to help banks and fintechs in emerging markets overcome one of the less visible barriers to... read more

08 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Anthropic has launched a blueprint enabling retailers to build AI-powered shopping and merchant agents using Claude, with support from Visa, Mastercard and Accenture. The framework is aimed at retailers, travel... read more

07 Sep 26 @ 20:20

Mobile wallet adoption continued to accelerate in the UK last year, with almost two-thirds of adults now registered for at least one service as digital payments become increasingly entrenched in... read more

07 Sep 26 @ 20:12

Saudi Arabia’s PayTabs has agreed to acquire Amazon Payment Services’ operations across the Middle East and North Africa in a deal valued at more than $100 million, in a transaction... read more

06 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil are examining whether Europe’s TIPS instant-payment infrastructure could be connected with Brazil’s hugely successful Pix network, potentially creating a new real-time... read more

06 Sep 26 @ 19:31

Wero is moving further beyond its origins as a peer-to-peer payment service, with Orange becoming the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill payments through the European Payments Initiative’s... read more

06 Sep 26 @ 19:30

Revolut has secured conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national bank, taking the London-founded fintech a significant step closer to... read more