04 Mar 26 @ 15:40

CaixaBank has introduced a new AI agent within its mobile banking application, designed to assist customers navigating digital product purchases. The system marks a further step in the Spanish lender’s... read more

02 Mar 26 @ 18:11

Barclays is reportedly in advanced discussions with technology vendors over the development of a blockchain-based platform capable of supporting payments, deposits and digital asset applications. The move, first reported by... read more

27 Feb 26 @ 10:11

Visa has secured pole position in the payments industry’s contest to operationalise AI, according to a new global benchmark assessing AI maturity across leading firms. The index, compiled by Evident,... read more

24 Feb 26 @ 12:26

The next evolution of digital commerce may not be driven by consumers clicking ‘buy now’, but by AI acting on their behalf. According to dispute specialist Chargebacks911, that shift could... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 12:37

Senior executives from Britain’s largest lenders will convene this week to advance plans for a domestic card network alternative to the global card schemes that dominate UK commerce. The meeting,... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 08:55

The UK’s credit card market is enjoying an unexpected revival. After years in which regulators, fintech challengers and pandemic-era savings appeared to dampen demand, plastic has reasserted itself as a... read more

10 Feb 26 @ 17:30

Visa is pushing deeper into one of the world’s most strategically important payment corridors, announcing a partnership with UnionPay International to enable cross-border, real-time payments into mainland China. The agreement... read more

10 Feb 26 @ 16:59

As Agentic AI moves from experimentation to execution, Mastercard is arguing that technology alone will not determine winners. Instead, organisational readiness — spanning skills, data, governance and security — is... read more

10 Feb 26 @ 15:31

Amazon’s launch of Pay by Bank in the UK marks a significant moment for account-to-account (A2A) payments in e-commerce. By allowing customers to pay directly from their bank accounts without... read more

03 Feb 26 @ 18:04

Digital asset payments are edging closer to everyday commerce as Lydian launches a new application enabling cryptocurrency acceptance across Clover devices for crypto POS payments. The move allows merchants using... read more

02 Feb 26 @ 20:37

OpenAI has raised a pointed warning about an underappreciated vulnerability in agentic AI systems: hyperlinks. As AI agents move beyond conversation into execution — browsing the web, retrieving data and... read more

29 Jan 26 @ 21:31

Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from novelty to infrastructure in retail, and nowhere was that more apparent than at Retail’s Big Show in New York. While retailers once dominated the... read more

27 Jan 26 @ 17:37

Predictions of a weak Christmas trading period for e-commerce proved wide of the mark. Fresh data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics shows that online retail enjoyed a robust... read more

26 Jan 26 @ 21:38

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a notable shift in tone emerged from discussions on artificial intelligence in banking and FinTech. Rather than racing to deploy the newest models,... read more

26 Jan 26 @ 18:07

Merchant acquiring has rarely been accused of being exciting. For much of the past two decades it has been a business defined by scale, operational efficiency and relentless margin pressure.... read more

23 Jan 26 @ 11:56

For more than two decades, e-commerce has been built around a predictable assumption: that the buyer is human, present, and actively persuadable. Product pages, marketing funnels and checkout flows have... read more

22 Jan 26 @ 16:50

The UK payments industry is sharpening its critique of the country’s approach to stablecoins, arguing that regulatory caution is slipping into competitive self-harm. In a new manifesto, The Payments Association... read more

20 Jan 26 @ 17:57

For much of blockchain’s commercial history, regulation hovered in the background as an unresolved constraint. Financial institutions ran proofs of concept, explored distributed ledgers and monitored policy debates, but few... read more

16 Jan 26 @ 13:37

As global scam losses climb beyond $400bn annually, payment fraud is evolving faster than the controls designed to stop it. Against this backdrop, Scamnetic is repositioning its patented IDeveryone technology... read more

16 Jan 26 @ 11:59

Stablecoin-linked payment cards are emerging as a meaningful driver of growth for Visa’s blockchain settlement business, underlining how digital currencies are increasingly being absorbed into mainstream payments infrastructure rather than... read more