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

06 Oct 26 @ 17:06

Citi has launched multi-market instant payments through Swift, allowing bank clients to reach several domestic real-time payment systems through a single account structure and existing Swift connectivity. The service is... read more

06 Oct 26 @ 17:06

HSBC is preparing to launch a Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin under the HSBC RedCoin brand, beginning with retail payment use cases before expanding into corporate and institutional applications. The bank... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Tokenisation is moving rapidly from experimentation towards mainstream financial infrastructure, with Lloyds’ latest Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey showing growing conviction that digital assets will materially change how money and securities... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Some of Europe’s largest domestic payment schemes are joining forces to create a new cross-border network designed to reduce the continent’s reliance on US-controlled card infrastructure. Bancomat, Bizum, the European... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:35

Barclays is extending its use of Anthropic’s Claude AI models across software development, customer support and operational processes as the bank looks to modernise legacy technology and improve efficiency. The... 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

30 Sep 26 @ 13:15

OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing AI valuations into territory previously occupied by only the world’s largest listed technology companies, while simultaneously revealing just how expensive the race to build frontier... read more

30 Sep 26 @ 13:04

The battle over the future of digital money is becoming less about choosing between stablecoins, tokenised bank deposits and central bank money, and increasingly about building infrastructure capable of allowing... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 20:08

Swift is taking aim at one of the most persistent frustrations in international payments: the need for consumers to enter unfamiliar account details when sending money abroad. The messaging network... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 20:07

Mambu and Mastercard have formed a strategic partnership designed to make it easier for banks to launch and scale cross-border payment services without undertaking complex infrastructure projects. Under the agreement,... read more

29 Sep 26 @ 13:03

Citi and Coinbase are deepening their partnership as the boundary between conventional banking infrastructure and stablecoin payments continues to narrow. Under the expanded arrangement, Coinbase will use Citi’s Virtual Account... 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

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 Britain’s attempt to move programmable money from experimentation into... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:51

Revolut has completed a three-day UK pilot of its Pay with Smile facial recognition checkout, giving customers at selected London cafés the ability to make in-store payments simply by looking... read more

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Banks could lose as much as $230bn in payments revenue as stablecoins, tokenised deposits and central bank digital currencies move from experimentation into commercial use, according to Capgemini’s latest World... read more

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, front companies, commodity revenues, promissory notes and stablecoins. A Financial Times investigation... read more

24 Sep 26 @ 16:28

PayPal has partnered with Meta to enable users of the technology group’s new Muse personal AI agent to shop and check out across PayPal’s merchant network, adding another major payments... read more