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Wero expands merchant payments in France with Orange

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

Wero delays Luxembourg launch to strengthen market readiness

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

FIS brings Digital One Commercial to APAC

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

Emerging markets accelerate the shift to cashless payments

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

Bank of America’s CashPro app usage rises 20%

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

AI fraud is becoming industrialised — and banks are running out of time

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

Apple Pay set for India launch with major banks

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

Why delivery matters more than vision in payments reform

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

From Promissory Notes to Stablecoins: Inside Russia’s shadow payments network

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

The evolution of POS: From terminals to touchpoints

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

The global wallet war: Who will own the customer?

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

Crypto payments move into mainstream POS payments

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

Klarna pushes further into everyday banking with P2P play

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

Global Payments bets on scale as FIS doubles down on Issuing

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

Payments on the move: Three ways checkout is changing

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

Mollie closes in on GoCardless as European payments consolidation accelerates

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

A step closer to reality: An update on the UK’s National Payment Vision

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

Payment resilience: A growing risk for Retail and Hospitality in Europe

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

Instant Payments adoption gains momentum in the United States

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

Meta expands WhatsApp in-app payments for SMEs

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

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Global Banks set ground rules for Agentic Commerce as Fraud and Liability risks rise

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

Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

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

UK Banks complete first live transactions using Tokenised Deposits

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