06 Sep 26 @ 19:31
Wero is moving further beyond its origins as a peer-to-peer payment service, with Orange becoming the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill payments through the European Payments Initiative’s... read more
10 Aug 26 @ 20:40
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has postponed the launch of its Wero digital wallet in Luxembourg until 1 September 2026, pushing back its original June timetable to allow additional testing... 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
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
14 Apr 26 @ 20:02
Bank of America has offered a striking illustration of how corporate treasury is being reshaped by mobile technology, real-time data and artificial intelligence. The bank says clients approved a record... read more
26 Mar 26 @ 19:03
Fraud in digital finance is no longer best understood as a series of isolated scams carried out by opportunistic criminals. It is increasingly operating as an industrialised system: fast, scalable... 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
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
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
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
16 Jan 26 @ 14:00
Klarna has taken another decisive step beyond buy now, pay later with the launch of instant P2P payments across 13 European markets. The new functionality allows users to send money... read more
13 Jan 26 @ 13:47
Global Payments has completed a long-anticipated strategic reset, finalising the acquisition of Worldpay while divesting its Issuer Solutions business to FIS. Together, the transactions reshape the competitive landscape of global... read more
17 Dec 25 @ 13:51
Generation Alpha is the first cohort to grow up in a largely cashless society. Where grandparents once paid in shillings, francs or lira, fishing coins out of purses or pockets,... read more
11 Dec 25 @ 11:08
Dutch payments processor Mollie is on the brink of acquiring UK fintech GoCardless in what would be one of Europe’s most consequential private-market payments deals this year. According to people... read more
10 Dec 25 @ 17:21
On 07 November 2025, the Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) published its “Strategy for Future Retail Payments Infrastructure.” As a quick refresher, the PVDC was set up in November 2024 to... read more
09 Oct 25 @ 16:16
Payment systems have become the nervous system of the consumer economy. Every transaction at a supermarket checkout, hotel reception, or café till depends on complex networks of hardware, software, and... read more
03 Oct 25 @ 08:58
The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) has released its 2025 US Instant Payments Adoption Quantitative Study, providing one of the clearest signals yet that real-time payments are moving from promise... read more
19 Sep 25 @ 14:47
Meta has unveiled a significant expansion of its WhatsApp Business App, allowing small enterprises to accept payments directly within the platform. Announced at the company’s second business summit in Mumbai,... read more
27 Sep 26 @ 18:53
Six major banks have joined forces to establish principles for trusted agentic commerce, warning that the rapid adoption of AI shopping agents could outpace exi... more
20 Oct 26 @ 09:06
Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more
27 Sep 26 @ 18:52
Seven major UK financial institutions have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenised sterling deposits, marking an important step in Britai... more