27 Feb 26 @ 10:07

The UK has set its direction on a payments infrastructure overhaul. What matters now is how it is built and run in practice. For much of the past year, discussion... read more

25 Feb 26 @ 17:55

Reports that Stripe is exploring a potential acquisition of PayPal have sent tremors through the global payments industry. The reports follow closely on the heels of our story yesterday linking... read more

25 Feb 26 @ 17:53

The rapid ascent of stablecoins as a pillar of digital finance is now intersecting with a more troubling statistic: illicit cryptocurrency flows reached an estimated $154bn in 2025, the highest... read more

24 Feb 26 @ 13:10

Jana Partners has quietly accumulated a minority stake in Fiserv, intensifying scrutiny on a payments group whose market performance has sharply deteriorated over the past year. Regulatory filings show that... read more

24 Feb 26 @ 12:45

After a bruising year on the public markets, PayPal has become the subject of early-stage takeover interest, underscoring how sharply sentiment has shifted around one of digital payments’ most recognisable... read more

20 Feb 26 @ 19:10

The UK’s payments watchdog has imposed a £3.78m penalty on Bank of Ireland UK after the lender failed to meet the regulatory deadline for implementing Confirmation of Payee (CoP), a... read more

20 Feb 26 @ 13:28

Nexi Group has launched Nexi Ready, a fully managed digital issuing proposition designed to help banks, corporates and fintechs accelerate product deployment without building and maintaining their own payments infrastructure.... read more

20 Feb 26 @ 13:18

Klarna’s ambitions to evolve beyond its buy now, pay later (BNPL) roots have been dealt a sharp market rebuke. Shares in the Swedish fintech fell 27 per cent on Thursday... read more

19 Feb 26 @ 16:32

Artificial intelligence is no longer a peripheral tool in retail. It is becoming the interface through which consumers discover products, compare options and complete purchases. What began as conversational experimentation... read more

16 Feb 26 @ 14:31

Stablecoins have moved decisively into the financial mainstream. With more than $300 billion in circulation and annual settlement volumes estimated to exceed $20 trillion, tokenised dollars now function as a... read more

16 Feb 26 @ 14:12

Global fintech investment staged a notable recovery in 2025, marking a decisive break from three consecutive years of contraction. Total funding rose to $116 billion across 4,719 deals, up from... read more

13 Feb 26 @ 14:51

Alipay has crossed a symbolic threshold in the evolution of digital payments. The company revealed that its agentic commerce, AI Pay platform processed more than 120 million transactions in a... read more

09 Feb 26 @ 17:14

Warnings about bitcoin excess are hardly new, but when they come from Michael Burry, markets tend to pay closer attention. The investor famed for anticipating the US subprime mortgage collapse... read more

09 Feb 26 @ 13:24

Europe’s long-running ambition to reclaim control over its payments infrastructure has taken a tangible step forward. A new memorandum of understanding signed by Bancomat, Bizum, SIBS, Vipps MobilePay and EPI... read more

05 Feb 26 @ 10:06

When Western governments cut major Russian banks off from the Swift messaging system in the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, they hoped to choke the country’s ability to... read more

04 Feb 26 @ 17:17

For decades, the POS terminal was a steadfast but unremarkable fixture of retail life — the small, grey box whose sole purpose was to approve or decline a card transaction.... read more

04 Feb 26 @ 16:51

Mobile wallets were once presented as sleek digital accessories — a faster way to tap in store, a smooth way to pay online. That era has passed. Today, the wallet... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:20

A quiet but consequential struggle is under way at the heart of the global financial system. On one side sit Wall Street’s largest banks, guardians of deposits, credit creation and... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:03

Visa has delivered a solid set of first-quarter results, comfortably exceeding market expectations as consumer spending remained resilient across its global network. Yet the numbers were not enough to placate... read more

29 Jan 26 @ 19:33

Checkout.com has taken a decisive step deeper into Europe’s regulated digital money ecosystem with the acquisition of Blue EMI, a licensed electronic money institution authorised to issue euro-denominated stablecoins. The... read more