06 Oct 26 @ 17:07

New merchants are particularly vulnerable to fraud during their earliest months of trading, with fresh analysis from Fraudio showing that 10.5% of newly observed businesses experienced at least one fraudulent... read more

01 Oct 26 @ 08:52

FIS has integrated Spade’s real-time transaction enrichment technology into its debit processing platform, giving issuing banks access to more detailed merchant information at the point a transaction is processed. The... 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 existing safeguards around fraud, scams, privacy... read more

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent’s economy while intensifying debate over payments innovation and competition from overseas sellers.... read more

17 Sep 26 @ 16:57

Artificial intelligence is transforming online fraud from a collection of individual scams into something resembling an industrialised criminal supply chain, allowing attackers to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. New... read more

10 Sep 26 @ 15:45

Artificial intelligence is already changing how consumers shop, but the leap from AI-assisted discovery to autonomous payments remains some distance away, according to Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney. Speaking at... read more

19 Aug 26 @ 15:12

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the economics of online fraud, allowing criminals to automate attacks, exploit stolen identities and test compromised payment credentials at a scale that would previously have... read more

18 Aug 26 @ 18:12

Instant payments are moving rapidly from alternative infrastructure towards a significant component of the global payments system, but new research suggests adoption depends as much on economics and customer behaviour... read more

05 Aug 26 @ 16:36

Fiserv and Mastercard have strengthened their long-standing partnership with a new global agreement designed to simplify payment acceptance for enterprise merchants operating across multiple markets and sales channels. The collaboration... read more

15 Jul 26 @ 16:28

Stripe and private equity group Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint $53 billion bid for PayPal, in a proposed transaction that could significantly reshape the digital payments market. The... read more

13 Jul 26 @ 20:08

Banks that embed artificial intelligence into their core operations today are likely to emerge as the dominant players in European retail banking by the end of the decade, according to... read more

09 Jul 26 @ 21:02

Open Banking payment fraud continues to remain significantly lower than across the wider UK payments industry, despite increasingly sophisticated scam techniques and a gradual rise in overall fraud volumes, according... read more

18 Jun 26 @ 19:36

Three of Spain’s largest banking groups have taken a significant step towards strengthening the fight against financial crime, launching a shared fraud intelligence platform designed to identify and prevent fraudulent... read more

16 Jun 26 @ 18:17

Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and raising fresh questions about whether current... read more

14 Jun 26 @ 14:59

Stripe has unveiled a suite of new products designed to help UK businesses accelerate international growth and prepare for the emerging era of AI-driven commerce, underlining the payments giant’s ambition... read more

11 Jun 26 @ 15:56

The race to commercialise agentic commerce has taken a significant step forward with Visa and OpenAI announcing a strategic partnership designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to initiate and complete... read more

07 Jun 26 @ 17:47

The race to commercialise agentic commerce has taken a significant step forward after ING, Worldline and Mastercard announced the successful completion of what they describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end... read more

04 Jun 26 @ 20:58

The rise of agentic commerce is rapidly reshaping the future of online retail, with enterprise merchants moving at speed to ensure their businesses are visible to AI-powered shopping assistants. However,... read more

26 May 26 @ 20:23

The scale of global financial crime has reached unprecedented levels, with illicit financial activity estimated to have surged to $4.4 trillion in 2025, according to new research from Nasdaq Verafin.... read more

26 May 26 @ 20:22

Open banking and payments infrastructure provider Plaid has launched a new guaranteed ACH payments solution designed to reduce settlement risk and accelerate transaction approvals for businesses operating in the digital... read more