The UNCHAIN Festival presented its fifth edition on 17 June 2026 inside the medieval walls of Oradea Fortress. This year, the fintech event drew the attention of more than 1,000 banking, payments, and insurance leaders from across Central and Eastern Europe, who gathered in Romania for the two networking days curated by organisers as a […]
Auto lending has become a proving ground for how well financial institutions and technology companies can work together. Fintechs have brought speed, data sophistication, and digital-first experiences to the space. Traditional banks bring institutional scale, regulatory experience, and established dealer relationships. What both share, regardless of model or origin, is an increasing dependence on interconnected […]
Europe’s AI transformation is entering a decisive new phase. After years focused on scaling models, accelerating pilots, and expanding generative AI capabilities, enterprises are now confronting a more fundamental challenge: trust. As AI moves from experimentation into mission-critical business operations, boardroom priorities are shifting from raw intelligence to credibility, governance, and resilience.
Shoptalk Europe 2026 unveiled five major predictions for the next decade of European retail at its Barcelona event, outlining how AI shopping agents, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, the recommerce economy, personalised physical stores, and AI-driven supply chain transformation will reshape retail by 2036.
Europe’s leading retail event, Shoptalk Europe 2026, convened in Barcelona earlier this month, highlighting AI adoption in retail, consumer trust in commerce, and the rapid rise of discovery-led commerce as the defining forces shaping European retail.
The subscription economy isn’t slowing down. According to Grand View Research, the global subscription economy market was estimated at $492.34 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $1,512.14 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 13.3% from 2025 to 2033. That kind of trajectory means more companies are signing up for recurring billing […]
Choosing a white label payment gateway is no longer just a technical shortcut. For many payment service providers, fintech companies, acquiring banks, ISOs, PayFacs, SaaS platforms, and enterprise merchants, it is a strategic decision that shapes how they enter the payment market, manage merchants, control payment flows, and scale internationally.
Global payments company Wise has acquired Expatica, a digital information platform focused on the expat community and internationally mobile individuals. The deal reflects a growing embedded-finance-style convergence between cross-border payments infrastructure and content ecosystems that support relocation, migration, and international living.
Airwallex has recently named its in-app AI assistant Kai, following months of its expanded functionality inside the Airwallex WebApp. Yet, renaming does not eliminate structural inefficiencies this support method has, according to public reviews.
Checkout.com becomes Microsoft’s EMEA payments partner for Xbox, Microsoft 365 and Azure, leveraging its AI payment optimization solution to effectively route the transactions within the region
Have you ever walked away from a customer experience and thought, “Wow, that was surprisingly good”? For many people, moments like that feel uncommon now. Great service often stands out not because it is extraordinary, but because expectations have quietly dropped. Slow responses, confusing systems, endless hold times, and generic interactions have become so normal […]
The 29th Edition of the Connected Banking Summit – Innovation & Excellence Awards will be held on 12 August 2026 in Addis Ababa, bringing together senior banking executives, financial regulators, fintech leaders, technology innovators, and policymakers to explore the next phase of digital banking transformation in Ethiopia and across emerging markets.
“Building Digital Financial Systems and Accelerating Banking Modernization in Emerging Markets” 12 August 2026 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dutch payments technology company Adyen has unveiled Adyen Agentic, a new suite of APIs designed to help enterprise merchants sell through conversational AI platforms without having to rebuild their commerce infrastructure for every emerging channel.
Nigeria already moves more stablecoin volume than almost any country outside Asia. Now it’s getting an institutional backer to match the population’s crypto enthusiasm. Ripple has taken a stake in Flutterwave $3.2 billion Series E round, with plans to wire RLUSD and the XRP Ledger directly into the continent’s largest payments network.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming part of everyday life, but its expansion comes with a growing challenge: energy consumption. Training and running advanced AI models requires vast computing resources, and the data centres powering these systems are consuming increasing amounts of electricity worldwide. Against this backdrop, Chinese technology giant Ant Group is attempting to […]
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