Revolut Wins Conditional US Bank Charter
Revolut moves a step closer to becoming a bank in America. The London-based fintech’s pursuit of a Revolut US bank charter has passed a major regulatory milestone.
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Top 20 Payment Gateway Providers of 2026. Part 2
Payment gateway providers that will help you accept payments online
Top 20 Payment Gateway Providers of 2026. Part 1
One way or another, payment gateways play an essential role in the е-cоmmеrсе transaction sector
Chargeback Report Warns Merchants of Visa VAMP Compliance Risk Ahead of Golden Quarter
As retailers prepare for that magic time of year called the Golden Quarter, it appears many of them have no clear view of their Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) exposure. A study performed by Chargebacks911 indicated that lack of transparency regarding fraud and dispute metrics can result in businesses being unprepared for the surge in […]
Peak Season Prep Starts Now: Three Priorities For Ecommerce Companies Ahead Of Annual Code Freeze
By Melinda Ellis van Zyl, enterprise sales lead, Shiprazor The online retailers who win Q4 are the ones who do the hard work in September. By the time November comes around, it is too late.
Ecommerce Forum Returns to London on 4th February 2027
The Ecommerce Forum returns to Hilton London Canary Wharf on 4th February 2027, bringing together senior ecommerce and digital leaders for a day of strategic networking, expert insight, and pre-arranged one-to-one meetings.
India Is Building a Way for AI to Pay Your Bills
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.
Kurv CTO Mark Alsentzer On Proactive AI And The Future Of SMB Payments
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.
Allica Bank Moves Beyond UK, Applies For Swedish Banking Licence
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 […]
PayPal Shares Drop 12.7% as Stripe and Advent Drop $53 Billion Bid
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.
Best NFC Smartphones: How to Pay With a Mobile
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 […]
Napier AI’s Janet Bastiman: Agentic AI in AML Needs Clean Data and Humans in the Loop
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 Regulators Pick 36 AI Use Cases to Test: Visa, Ant Bank Involved
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.
FV Bank Launches Global Managed Accounts for Payment & Fintech Platforms
Embedded banking is expanding as fintechs and payment platforms seek to provide accounts and payment services without building their own banking infrastructure.
Pay With Your Watch: Top 6 Wearable Payment Devices
Put the bank card down and pay with your watch.
Stripe Singapore Wants Going Global
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.
