13 Apr 22 @ 16:00

Mastercard has joined the land grab by major payments players and banks into the Metaverse, with new filings related to NFTs, virtual worlds and more. The 15 filings by Mastercard,... read more

06 Apr 22 @ 11:59

I think it would be a fair statement to make, that some people are still sceptical about the Metaverse. However, Citi bank sees tremendous potential in the concept of the... read more

16 Mar 22 @ 12:46

American Express is making what appears to be a landgrab for what some see as the next big market for payments – the metaverse. The company has filed trademark applications for... read more

21 Feb 22 @ 10:51

Following the 28 October 2021 announcement that Facebook will be renamed ‘Meta’, the term ‘metaverse’ has truly come out from the back room, where the gamer is consumed by games such... read more

27 Jan 22 @ 12:11

The Diem cryptocurrency project is being forced to sell its assets, as Meta (Facebook) admits defeat in its ambitions in the digital payments space. The Diem Association, which was launched... read more

09 Dec 21 @ 16:26

Meta’s cryptocurrency wallet, Novi, will now allow users to send and receive money through WhatsApp. The pilot program is open to a limited number of people in the US, Stephane Kasriel,... read more

02 Feb 15 @ 16:13

Four bits of credit card metadata is capable of re-identifying nearly 90% of the people, warns a study carried out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers. For the purpose of... read more

18 Apr 23 @ 10:52

Back in 2019, I wrote a piece for Wired predicting that in time robots will take over in banking just as they have done in manufacturing. I said that going to the... read more

05 Dec 22 @ 19:27

The rising cost of leverage as well as volatile valuations amidst a global economic downturn and tightening monetary policies have been identified as the greatest challenges facing the private equity... read more

04 Nov 22 @ 11:30

A new study from FIS finds Millennials in the US are more open to adopting new and digitally-oriented financial experiences, including those enabled through embedded finance experiences than other generational... read more

22 Sep 22 @ 16:25

Crypto enthusiasts believe, the switch by the Ethereum blockchain to a new system for validating transactions — a move known as “the merge” — is an historic moment for what... read more

23 Aug 22 @ 14:23

A new study has found the global number of NFT (Non-fungible Token) transactions will rise from 24 million in 2022 to 40 million by 2027. This is based on a... read more

03 Mar 26 @ 16:14

Visa and Bridge – the stablecoin infrastructure provider acquired by Stripe earlier this year –  are to expand their stablecoin card programme to more than 100 countries across Europe, Africa,... 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

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

01 Dec 25 @ 15:24

EU policymakers have struck a provisional agreement to overhaul the bloc’s payment services rulebook, marking one of the most significant regulatory updates since PSD2 came into force nearly a decade... read more

27 Nov 25 @ 16:48

Digital teams manage many types of payments every day: ad budgets, SaaS subscriptions, and business travel. Handling all of this through traditional banking cards is often slow and unreliable. Teams... read more

24 Oct 25 @ 10:44

Artificial intelligence has become the latest weapon in the arsenal of organised fraudsters, driving a sharp rise in fraud and scams across the UK. According to new data from UK... read more

16 Oct 25 @ 19:23

The convergence of blockchain, stablecoins and mainstream financial infrastructure continues to gather pace. Two major players—Coinbase and Euronet—this week unveiled new tools designed to make cross-border payments faster, cheaper and... read more

22 Sep 25 @ 09:34

Brussels looks set to deliver a significant blow to US technology giants by excluding them from Europe’s new FiDA financial data-sharing framework. Negotiations over the EU’s Financial Data Access (FiDA)... read more