UPI can not just move money digitally now but also bring cash to Indian users within minutes at a neighborhood store. The functionality is soon-to-be available via Ezeepay new UPI Cash-Out service.
From subscription management to stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure, this week delivered a concentrated burst of fintech news that signals where the industry’s attention and capital is pointing in early 2026. Here are the five stories shaping the conversation.
Global payment and treasury management platform SUNRATE has relocated its Kuala Lumpur operations to a larger office at Menara Binjai, as the Singapore-headquartered company deepens its presence in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing fintech markets.
RS2 has spent decades powering payments behind the scenes. Now it’s stepping into the consumer card payments spotlight and the $17.55bn co-branded card market it’s entering explains why.
Nexi, the European PayTech, and PayPal have announced a significant expansion of their partnership, embedding PayPal’s payments ecosystem directly into Nexi’s merchant platform across five EU countries.
Explore the 2026 stablecoin showdown between Apple Wallet and PayPal. Compare fees, usability, and global reach as PayPal expands PYUSD to 70 markets and Apple enables USDC payments via Apple Pay merchant integrations.
Mastercard news reveals a strategic pivot from traditional payment rails and A2A systems toward AI‑driven, agentic payments. The firm’s snowball of agentic AI transaction launches, spanning India, South Korea, Latin America, and the position of the company in EU payment sovereignty debate shows how Mastercard is trying to fill the niche of a future orchestrator […]
As OTPs become irrelevant in India starting tomorrow due to RBI new payment security policies, Razorpay, one of the local market leaders in digital payment processing, is introducing regulation compliant biometric authentication for card payments, in partnership with Mastercard and Visa.
The Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE) event, held on March 17-19, brought together industry leaders to explore the forces reshaping the future of payments, with discussions pointing to a sector already in transition to emerging innovative ecosystem rather than one just awaiting disruption.
A new white paper from RS2 argues that merchant acquiring is at an inflection point where artificial intelligence emerges as a practical tool to address its structural inefficiencies and redefine how the sector operates.
Extend has announced new integrations with Sage Intacct, Xero, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, widening its accounting coverage and strengthening its position as a software layer for banks looking to modernize their commercial card offerings.
PayNearby has become the first Business Correspondent in India to roll out a fully integrated solution for cash withdrawals via UPI, expanding how users can access physical cash in a digital-first payments environment.
For most of financial history, sending money across borders has felt like mailing a letter through a postal system designed in the 1950s — slow, expensive, and surprisingly opaque. You hand your money to a bank, it disappears into a chain of intermediaries, and somewhere between two and five days later it reappears in another […]
European PayTech Nexi has broadened its agreement with local and nationwide banks in Denmark to provide SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) services, deepening the country’s integration with the European payments infrastructure.
A new partnership between DNB and Two is aiming to reshape the Nordic B2B payments landscape through artificial intelligence (AI), as financial institutions increasingly target one of the least digitized segments of global commerce.
When the 2026 World Cup kicks off in Mexico this June, fans in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey will find something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: taco stands and corner stores ready to take their cards. Mexico’s banks had decades to wire the country for digital payments. The paytechs did it in […]
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