Money20/20 Middle East closed its active three-day run in Riyadh this week, bringing the fintech community a set of regulatory announcements from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), a new unicorn in the Kingdom’s payments sector, and cross-border card interoperability with Qatar.
As US Senate vote on the crypto regulation bill known as Clarity Act failed this week, bitcoin’s price declined along with the share prices of crypto-linked companies, including Coinbase and Circle. Vote hold for an uncertain period also affects crypto service developers in less visible ways.
UK stablecoin infrastructure startup Velocity has raised $10 million in an extension of its Series A funding round, bringing the total value of the round to $48 million.
Hong Kong-native cryptocurrency exchange CoinEx is winding up operations. Users have till December 22, 2026 to transfer their funds elsewhere.
Nubank has entered the US market, rolling out a suite of deposit products through a sponsor bank and struck partnership with Sygnum for crypto accounts.
Before agentic commerce becomes routine, someone has to answer a basic question: how does a bank or merchant know that AI agent initiating transaction is trustworthy and really acting on your behalf? Three of the biggest names in global payments industry are looking for a joint solution.
Traditional credit scoring and lending practices have long disadvantaged a significant share of the population. Thankfully, alternative lending services are helping more people access credit options in these critical times when the affordability of daily purchases is decreasing.
Worldline has become one of the first payment providers in Europe to launch a payment handler for the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).
Paymentus Holdings Inc. (NYSE: PAY) and PYMNTS Intelligence have released the Service Commerce Performance Gap Report study measuring differences between what consumers expect from billing and payment experiences and what service providers believe they deliver. The revealed gap lies not only in frustrated expectations. It has material tag on it too. The report finds that […]
The UK payments industry broadly supports the government’s National Payments Vision, but new research shows limited confidence that the programme will be delivered smoothly.
Starbucks and Alipay together launched an AI-powered “Coffee Alarm Clock” in China. The new service allows consumers to schedule recurring Starbucks orders through Alipay’s AI agent, Ah Bao.
Nearly 60% of US states, plus Washington, D.C., would take more than two years of welfare checks to cover just one year of childcare, according to a new analysis from SingleMothersGrants.org.
Mastercard has launched Wallet Pay, a global portfolio of solutions designed to connect digital wallets to its worldwide payments network.
Razorpay, India’s omnichannel payments platform, has launched RAY, a conversational AI account manager on WhatsApp, in partnership with IndusInd Bank. Bajaj Finance is among the first businesses live on the platform, which lets founders manage payments and get support around the clock without logging into a dashboard.
Bitcoin recently staged a sharp comeback, now hovering around $80K for several weeks. The late August surge was extremely notable after the prolonged $60-65K summer lull. At the same time, two separate incidents involving a hardware wallet and a mid-cap blockchain have reopened debate on how much the industry can actually trust its own custody […]
Anthropic withheld its latest, most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude Mythos 5.1 from pre-release testing by independent UK body that usually receives early access to frontier models.
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