07 Jun 26 @ 17:47

The race to commercialise agentic commerce has taken a significant step forward after ING, Worldline and Mastercard announced the successful completion of what they describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end... read more

07 Jun 26 @ 17:47

The debate over the future of stablecoins in the UK has intensified after a House of Lords committee called on the Bank of England to adopt a more flexible approach... read more

07 Jun 26 @ 17:45

Finastra has agreed to sell its US mid-market banking business to CORA Group, a portfolio company of Constellation Software, in the latest move by the financial technology giant to streamline... read more

02 Jun 26 @ 20:28

Concerns over Europe’s dependence on foreign-owned payment infrastructure are moving beyond policymakers and into the mainstream, according to a new report from card issuing and processing specialist Enfuce – “Payment... read more

02 Jun 26 @ 20:27

Mastercard has taken another significant step in its push to modernise cross-border money movement, joining a pilot programme designed to enable instant cross-currency payments on the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment... read more

27 May 26 @ 19:59

Italy’s state-backed lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti is preparing to increase its holding in payments giant Nexi, signalling Rome’s determination to retain influence over one of Europe’s most strategically important... read more

27 May 26 @ 19:58

Global card giant Mastercard is reportedly seeking financial support from Brazil’s largest payment processors after suffering substantial losses linked to the collapse of Banco Master and its fintech subsidiary, Will... read more

21 May 26 @ 18:45

The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is preparing to intensify oversight of card payment economics by proposing new financial reporting requirements for Mastercard and Visa. The move marks the latest... read more

18 May 26 @ 17:07

The Bank of England has found that distributed ledger technology could improve aspects of wholesale payments and settlement, but only at the cost of significant trade-offs in governance, resilience and... read more

14 May 26 @ 13:42

RS2 has strengthened its position in Latin America after signing a long-term processing agreement with a major, undisclosed financial services partner in the region. The five-year, multi-million-euro deal will expand... read more

12 May 26 @ 15:44

Visa has launched a new tap-based authentication technology that could reshape how banks verify customers in mobile banking environments. The scheme, introduced with fintech partner Keyno and Fidelity Bank (Bahamas),... read more

11 May 26 @ 19:52

U.S. Bank is deepening its relationship with Amazon Web Services in a multi-year technology programme designed to move hundreds of mission-critical banking applications into the cloud and accelerate the use... read more

07 May 26 @ 16:28

Anthropic is sharpening its pitch to financial institutions with the launch of ten ready-to-use Claude agent templates designed to automate some of the most labour-intensive work across banking, asset management,... read more

06 May 26 @ 16:43

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are reportedly in talks to sell Moneris, their jointly owned payments processing business, to Francisco Partners, in a transaction that could value... read more

05 May 26 @ 16:51

The European Payments Initiative is facing an uncomfortable test of its own strategic logic. Created to build a pan-European payments alternative to the dominant US card networks, the bank-backed consortium... read more

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

ANZ has moved to take full ownership of its Australian merchant payments joint venture with Worldline, underlining the growing strategic importance of acquiring and transaction banking to the country’s major... read more

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

Cashless payments are becoming an increasingly important marker of financial modernisation across emerging market and developing economies, with new data from the Bank for International Settlements showing a sharp rise... read more

28 Apr 26 @ 18:14

France’s domestic card scheme Cartes Bancaires (CB) is attempting to reassert itself at a moment when Europe’s dependence on US payment networks is attracting renewed political and commercial scrutiny. For... read more

28 Apr 26 @ 18:14

ACI Worldwide has launched a major expansion of its Connetic platform in the US, positioning the service as a response to the growing complexity faced by banks operating across multiple... read more

27 Apr 26 @ 12:54

The UK Government has set out a broad package of payments reforms designed to prepare the sector for stablecoins, tokenised deposits, Open Banking and AI-driven transactions. The move reflects a... read more