10 Sep 26 @ 15:44

US Bank has completed a live cross-border transaction using its own dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming one of the latest major lenders to test whether blockchain technology can improve the movement of... read more

02 Sep 26 @ 20:54

Twenty-one of the world’s largest financial institutions are preparing to establish a new stablecoin company, marking one of the banking industry’s most significant attempts yet to compete for a role... read more

18 Aug 26 @ 18:11

Mastercard is seeking to resolve a dispute with Brazilian merchant acquirers over hundreds of millions of dollars in unsettled card payments following the collapse of Will Financeira, better known as... read more

18 Aug 26 @ 18:11

PayPal has reportedly resumed takeover discussions with a consortium including Stripe and private equity group Advent International, potentially setting the stage for one of the largest deals in the payments... read more

10 Aug 26 @ 20:39

FIS has completed the global rollout of its Digital One™ Commercial platform with its launch across the Asia-Pacific region, providing banks with a unified digital banking platform designed to modernise... read more

05 Aug 26 @ 16:36

Fiserv and Mastercard have strengthened their long-standing partnership with a new global agreement designed to simplify payment acceptance for enterprise merchants operating across multiple markets and sales channels. The collaboration... read more

22 Jul 26 @ 19:55

Mastercard has launched Wallet Services, a suite of software tools and services intended to help banks, fintechs and digital platforms add contactless payment functionality directly to their mobile applications. Mastercard... read more

15 Jul 26 @ 16:28

Stripe and private equity group Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint $53 billion bid for PayPal, in a proposed transaction that could significantly reshape the digital payments market. The... read more

15 Jul 26 @ 16:27

German-regulated e-money institution will contribute acquiring expertise to practical testing of a possible future digital euro RS2 Financial Services GmbH, an electronic money institution supervised by BaFin and part of... read more

15 Jul 26 @ 16:24

BNPL providers in the UK, have entered a new regulatory era, with the Financial Conduct Authority assuming oversight of a market that expanded from £60 million in 2017 to more... read more

13 Jul 26 @ 20:06

The UK government has formally designated four of the world’s largest cloud service providers as Critical Third Parties (CTPs), placing them under direct supervision by the country’s financial regulators in... read more

07 Jul 26 @ 19:13

Google has been ordered to pay approximately $1.97 billion in damages to PriceRunner, the price comparison platform owned by Klarna, following a landmark competition ruling by Sweden’s Patent and Market... 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

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

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

14 Jun 26 @ 15:00

Visa has unveiled an ambitious strategy to position itself at the centre of the emerging programmable money ecosystem, announcing plans to build the technology infrastructure that will enable banks to... read more

10 Jun 26 @ 17:04

ING is extending its support for Wero in Germany by enabling customers to use the European payment scheme for online shopping, marking an important step in the evolution of the... read more