17 Mar 26 @ 15:04

Mastercard has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure specialist BVNK in a deal worth up to $1.8 billion, marking one of the clearest signals yet that major card networks are positioning... read more

12 Mar 26 @ 18:21

For years, the credit card industry has pursued a simple ambition: to become the card a consumer reaches for first. Top of wallet became the organising principle for issuers, shaping everything... read more

10 Mar 26 @ 17:33

Visa has unveiled a new capability within its Visa Acceptance Platform designed to help payment acquirers modernise their transaction processing infrastructure through a single application programming interface (API). The new... 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

20 Feb 26 @ 13:28

Nexi Group has launched Nexi Ready, a fully managed digital issuing proposition designed to help banks, corporates and fintechs accelerate product deployment without building and maintaining their own payments infrastructure.... read more

27 Jan 26 @ 10:48

Stablecoins are moving rapidly from the margins of crypto markets to the centre of global payments strategy, as artificial intelligence reshapes how economic activity is conducted. Speaking at the World... 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

22 Jan 26 @ 21:38

Europe’s payments industry is approaching a structural inflection point. New research conducted by Celent in collaboration with Plaid, suggests that SEPA Instant Credit Transfers are on track to overtake traditional credit... read more

08 Dec 25 @ 15:25

B2B payment infrastructure is evolving to become faster and more intelligent. This shift currently sees large corporates, as well as small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), increasingly using commercial cards – including purchase... read more

28 Nov 25 @ 15:00

The days where payment tokenisation simply provides a tokenised, domain-controlled version of a payment account number appear to be diminishing fast. With international payment schemes now announcing advanced features such as... read more

24 Nov 25 @ 09:50

Gamers today face a world of choices when it comes to paying for their games, subscriptions, and in-game items. Credit cards, debit cards, crypto, digital wallets, and other options all... read more

20 Nov 25 @ 13:45

AI is about to redefine banking as we know it — not by digitising existing processes, but by taking the act of banking out of consumers’ hands entirely. According to... read more

06 Nov 25 @ 18:05

I cant believe I am saying this, but as the financial world heads into 2026, the convergence of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing is transforming how consumers, corporates, and... read more

23 Oct 25 @ 17:16

Artificial intelligence could erase up to $170 billion in global banking profits over the next decade, according to McKinsey & Company’s Global Banking Annual Review 2025. The consultancy warns that... read more

07 Oct 25 @ 16:45

The long-running debate over “who should pay” for Open Banking has re-emerged, reignited by a series of developments in the US that could reshape the economics of data access. JPMorgan... read more

11 Sep 25 @ 16:44

Once a technical detail confined to fraud prevention, tokenization has become one of the most strategically significant developments in global finance. From protecting card payments to enabling central bank experiments... read more

09 Sep 25 @ 16:04

By 2030, digital commerce will be underpinned by an invisible web of billions of connected devices and intelligent agents. These technologies promise a golden age of economic growth, where AI-powered... read more

09 Sep 25 @ 13:17

Stripe has entered the blockchain arena in earnest, unveiling Tempo, a new network designed in partnership with crypto investment firm Paradigm to enable high-speed stablecoin transactions. The project, incubated within... read more

22 Jul 25 @ 12:43

As we pass the halfway point of 2025, the global banking and fintech sectors (as ever) find themselves in a state of transformation. The first two quarters have been punctuated... read more