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Bunq Celebrates First Decade of Operations With 20 Million Users and App Revamp

One of the EU’s largest neobanks, bunq, has reached its tenth anniversary while hitting a major 20-million-user milestone. The challenger unveiled a new app design to mark the occasion.

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Thunes Expands Real-Time Payments to Morocco

Being one of the top remittance receivers in Africa, Morocco heavily depends on the speed and reliability of cross-border payment solutions, so Thunes’ real-time payment infrastructure can be a game-changer for many local households.

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Mastercard Unveils On-Demand Decisioning To Add Flexibility to Payment Authorization

On-demand decisioning functionality will help Mastercard’s banking partners gain more control over transaction authorization processes, reduce false declines, and improve fraud prevention.

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Irish Banks to Launch P2P Payments App Zippay

Leading Irish retail banks, AIB, Bank of Ireland, and PTSB, are launching a Zippay solution integrated into each bank’s mobile app.

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Nuvei Integrates With Paze Online Checkout Via Early Warning Services Partnership

Fast, tokenized Paze checkout brings Nuvei merchants enhanced security, reduced cart abandonment, and increased conversion, all through a simple integration process.

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Ant to Pilot Card-Based Agentic AI Payments

Ant Group’s global merchant payments powerhouse unit, Antom, has made a foray into agentic payments, enabling AI agents to initiate and complete transactions on users’ behalf.

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Fintech Giant Revolut Deepens Ties with Google Cloud in Multi-Million Dollar Deal

Revolut has a strategic plan to deploy Google Cloud’s expansive infrastructure across all segments of its operations, starting from back-end systems to the user-facing app.

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JPMorgan Sets Sights on Europe’s Digital Banking Future With 2026 Germany Launch

By choosing Germany for its 2026 retail banking debut, JPMorgan signals confidence in Europe’s largest economy as the next frontier for digital finance.

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Airwallex Acquires OpenPay, Adds Billing to Automate Customer Revenue

Airwallex’s acquisition of OpenPay combines global payments infrastructure with advanced subscription and usage-based billing tools, giving businesses a unified, multicurrency platform to scale recurring revenue and simplify cross-border commerce.

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Kite AI Bags $18M From PayPal, General Catalyst

Over two dozen prominent investors, including PayPal Ventures, General Catalyst, 8VC, and Samsung Next, have placed their bets on an AI-driven startup, Kite AI, focused on agentic AI payment and e-commerce infrastructure.

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Stripe Expands in Japan With Terminal for Unified Commerce

Stripe launched its Terminal service in Japan, complemented by new cellular-enabled readers and integrations with local methods like PayPay and WeChat Pay, to simplify payments and reconciliation across online and in-store channels.

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5 Best Payment Orchestration Platforms in 2025

A payment orchestration platform is a set of tools and services that assist in unifying and managing the different aspects of transaction processing from start to finish. Typically, the core elements include connections to various payment service providers (PSPs), transaction routing, cascading, fraud protection, automated reconciliation and settlements, vaulting, tokenization, compliance, and comprehensive analytics and […]

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Bridging the Instant Payment Divide: How FedNow Could Emulate UPI and Pix

While FedNow is a rapidly expanding instant payment network in the U.S., we cannot help but wonder how this growth compares to the real-time transactions behemoths like Indian UPI and Brazilian Pix. 

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Klarna Expands Debit-First Card Offering to EU

The Klarna Card is debit-by-default, so purchases are settled immediately from the user’s funds, while the benefits of Klarna’s flexible repayment options still remain.

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TrueLayer Enhances Poland’s Instant Payment Ecosystem

One of Europe’s fastest-growing payment networks, TrueLayer, will complement the existing BLIK solution in the instant transaction market of Poland.

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SEA Shoppers Prefer Digital Wallets for Cross-Border Shopping

Mobile wallets are now the payment method of choice across Southeast Asia, with 83% of Indonesian shoppers and 80% of Malaysians opting for them when making international purchases.

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