AI agents can soon pay your grocery order, your electricity bill, or your monthly subscription, without you tapping a single button. India may be about to make that real for hundreds of millions of people who use UPI.
Most merchants still start their day the same way: log in, check a dashboard, compare money in against money out. Mark Alsentzer, Chief Technology Officer at Kurv, argues that this decades-old ritual is exactly what AI should be eliminating, not improving.
A UK digital bank best known for lending to small and mid-sized companies has just taken its first step onto the European continent. The Allica Bank Swedish banking licence application marks a new chapter for the six-year-old British lender, though what happens next depends entirely on a regulator most people outside Scandinavia have never heard […]
A month of takeover speculation that had lifted PayPal’s stock by more than 40% came to an abrupt end on August 28, wiping out much of those gains in a single trading session. What changed, and what it means for one of fintech’s best-known names, is only now becoming clear.
NFC is no longer a flagship-only extra. It has become one of the baseline checkboxes smartphone buyers look for, alongside a decent camera and a battery that lasts the day. This is true even at the low end of the market — a trend that has only accelerated through 2026, as more manufacturers ship the […]
Banks racing to deploy agentic AI in financial crime compliance are running into a familiar trap: treating the new technology as a faster version of the old one, rather than a reason to rethink how the work gets done. Janet Bastiman, Chief Data Scientist at Napier AI, explains what can be a better alternative.
Hong Kong financial regulators enhance their practical artificial intelligence with select 36 use cases for the first cohort of the GenAI Sandbox++. Projects to test span across agent-initiated commerce, payments, customer onboarding and liquidity management.
Embedded banking is expanding as fintechs and payment platforms seek to provide accounts and payment services without building their own banking infrastructure.
Put the bank card down and pay with your watch.
For most of business history, selling to another country meant years of paperwork, banking relationships and legal setup before a single overseas sale could happen. Stripe’s latest move in Singapore is built around a bet that this is no longer true and the numbers behind it are striking.
AI shopping traffic is growing fast and bringing shoppers who are more inclined to buy something along.
Wero ING Deutschland has reached a milestone that could say a lot about Europe’s payment ambitions. After one year of real-world use, the numbers are starting to show whether Wero can move towards its promising role in European payments. Read on to see what the latest figures reveal and what they do not.
After years of steering shoppers toward its own checkout apps, Walmart is opening the door to Apple Pay, Google Pay and every other tap-to-pay wallet, which says a lot about who really controls how we pay at the register.
What if charging customers a little extra at checkout didn’t send them running for the exit? New research on the topic of credit card surcharge small business strategy suggests that the long-held fear may not match reality. The numbers behind it are worth a closer look before any merchant decides how to price a transaction […]
When shoppers reach the final click, payment methods consumer trust is quietly overriding traditional brand loyalty in ways online sellers never anticipated.
Klarna delivered a stronger-than-expected second quarter, but investors focused on what comes next, which led to a counterintuitive stock decline.
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