27 Apr 26 @ 12:53

Nexi and Visa have unveiled a strategic partnership in Germany that signals a broader change in how banks are expected to modernise their card issuing operations. Rather than continuing to... read more

16 Apr 26 @ 11:46

American Express is positioning itself early for what could become one of the next major shifts in digital payments: AI agents that do more than recommend products and instead complete... read more

02 Apr 26 @ 18:44

The Reserve Bank of Australia is preparing one of the most consequential interventions in the country’s retail payments market in years, unveiling a reform package that will ban merchant surcharging... read more

31 Mar 26 @ 19:08

The Payments Association has escalated pressure on ministers and regulators to confront what it describes as a structural failure at the heart of the UK’s fraud regime: the platforms where... read more

24 Mar 26 @ 17:43

Venmo is making its most significant international move since launch, allowing users in the United States to send and receive money with PayPal account holders across 90 markets. The integration... read more

19 Mar 26 @ 15:00

PayPal’s decision to extend access to its PYUSD stablecoin across 70 markets is more than a product expansion. It is a carefully judged attempt to position stablecoins as a practical... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial intelligence agents could initiate... read more

15 Mar 26 @ 21:02

The European Central Bank has taken an important step in the evolution of Europe’s wholesale financial architecture with the publication of a roadmap for Appia, a long-term initiative designed to... read more

09 Mar 26 @ 14:45

Ripple has expanded its enterprise payments platform to support end-to-end money movement across both traditional fiat currencies and stablecoins, marking a further step in the convergence between conventional financial rails... read more

05 Mar 26 @ 13:53

European Payments Initiative has launched online payment functionality for its Wero digital wallet in Belgium, marking the second European market — after Germany — to enable ecommerce transactions through the... read more

03 Mar 26 @ 16:12

Nexi Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Google Cloud to develop foundational infrastructure capable of supporting agentic commerce across Europe — a move that underscores how AI is... read more

03 Mar 26 @ 16:11

Banco Santander and Mastercard have completed what they describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end payment initiated and executed by an artificial intelligence agent within a regulated banking framework — a... read more

02 Mar 26 @ 18:08

Apple Inc. is reportedly in discussions with leading Indian lenders and global card networks as it prepares to launch Apple Pay to India, one of the world’s most dynamic digital... read more

02 Mar 26 @ 11:25

Three months ago, I was approached by marketing representatives of ETC Mining, who paid $2,500 in Bitcoin for native advertising placement. On the surface, the proposition appeared straightforward: a cloud... read more

25 Feb 26 @ 17:51

Payoneer has taken a decisive step into the regulated heart of the American financial system, filing an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 13:35

The race to define the next phase of digital commerce via agentic payments has moved decisively into the banking mainstream. Visa and Mastercard have enlisted leading Asia-Pacific institutions to trial... read more

09 Feb 26 @ 18:07

Alphabet is no stranger to outsized investment cycles, but its latest capital expenditure plans signal something more structural. With projected spending of between $175bn and $185bn in 2026, Alphabet is... read more

26 Jan 26 @ 22:01

At NRF Big Show in New York, agentic commerce emerged as more than a futuristic talking point. The event revealed a retail and payments industry actively preparing for AI systems... read more

23 Jan 26 @ 14:48

Shopify is preparing its merchant base for a structural shift in online retail. From late January, products sold through AI chatbot checkouts will incur a new cost: a 4 per... read more

19 Jan 26 @ 17:27

Project Agorá, the flagship cross-border distributed ledger initiative led by the Bank for International Settlements, has entered its long-anticipated testing phase. After progressing from design to prototype build during 2025,... read more