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SBC Summit Malta to Help Affiliates Unlock New Growth in a Changing Landscape
Science & Technology

SBC Summit Malta to Help Affiliates Unlock New Growth in a Changing Landscape

As AI and shifting power dynamics continue to redefine modern affiliation, SBC Summit Malta will introduce a dedicated Affiliates Reinvented track, exploring how stakeholders can adapt and unlock new growth opportunities in an increasingly complex landscape.

ClearBank Europe Becomes First Dutch Bank to Get MiCAR Approved
Blockchain & Crypto

ClearBank Europe Becomes First Dutch Bank to Get MiCAR Approved

A regulated bank with crypto asset functionality is still a rarer thing than it should be in Europe. That changed a little yesterday, when ClearBank Europe announced it had received confirmation from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) to operate as a Crypto Asset Service Provider, making it the first credit institution in […]

Fiserv Helps Major U.S. Grocery Retailer Expand Card-Free Checkout Experience
Fintech & Ecommerce

Fiserv Helps Major U.S. Grocery Retailer Expand Card-Free Checkout Experience

Pay by Bank will now be available for Giant Food and Stop & Shop customers as Ahold Delhaize USA expands its pilot project with Fiserv across additional digital channels.

Revolut Launches AIR: Its First AI Financial Assistant Offers a Glimpse of Where Banking Is Heading
Fintech & Ecommerce

Revolut Launches AIR: Its First AI Financial Assistant Offers a Glimpse of Where Banking Is Heading

If you’ve ever opened a banking app, tapped through four menus to check a single transaction, and wondered why this is still how things work, Revolut has an answer.

Research Shows South African Travelers Book More When They Can Pay Their Flexible Way
Fintech & Ecommerce

Research Shows South African Travelers Book More When They Can Pay Their Flexible Way

The best travel deal in the world might still lose the ground if accompanied by a clunky checkout. New research shows that flexible payment options like BNPL, digital wallets, or mobile money are quietly becoming one of the travel industry’s most effective sales tools.

Bank of America’s CashPro App Records $1.2T in Payments & 20% Usage Growth, as AI and Mobile Transform BofA Treasury Operations
Fintech & Ecommerce

Bank of America’s CashPro App Records $1.2T in Payments & 20% Usage Growth, as AI and Mobile Transform BofA Treasury Operations

Corporate treasurers don’t sleep at their desks anymore — at least not the ones at Bank of America. In 2025, clients approved $1.2 trillion in payments through the bank’s CashPro App, a figure that works out to roughly $38,000 every second of every day. For a mobile app, that’s a staggering amount of financial trust […]

US-Iran Ceasefire Is Tearing at the Seams While the Strait of Hormuz Is Still Closed
Finance & Economics

US-Iran Ceasefire Is Tearing at the Seams While the Strait of Hormuz Is Still Closed

Forty eight hours ago news of US-Iran ceasefire, no matter how temporary it could be, looked like a real breakthrough. Now Iran is protesting against any deals again, Israel is still bombing Lebanon, ships that need to pass the Hormuz remain stuck, and oil is creeping back toward $100.

Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Debuts Native Stablecoin in Major Upgrade and Sign of Market Getting Mature
Blockchain & Crypto

Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Debuts Native Stablecoin in Major Upgrade and Sign of Market Getting Mature

To boost its control over payment settlement, Polymarket — one of the world’s largest crypto prediction platforms, rolls out its own stablecoin, Polymarket USD, and starts the most sweeping infrastructure upgrade in its six-year operation period. 

Solflare & Snowdrop Solutions Team Up to Make Crypto Card Transactions Less Mystic
Blockchain & Crypto

Solflare & Snowdrop Solutions Team Up to Make Crypto Card Transactions Less Mystic

Solflare and Snowdrop has joined forces to upgrade crypto-linked debit card UX with transaction enrichment features bringing neobank-style clarity to complex blockchain data that may confuse customers.

Nevermined Makes Giant AI Agent Payments Stride With Visa, x402 and VGS Support
Fintech & Ecommerce

Nevermined Makes Giant AI Agent Payments Stride With Visa, x402 and VGS Support

AI agents may perform various tasks for a business or individual, but they may not complete half of them without the ability to actually make payments. Nevermined aims to solve that deficiency with their new agent card delegation feature based on secure technologies developed by Visa, Coinbase’s x402, and VGS.

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Unites Tech Leaders in Face of Growing AI Power That Can Either Shatter or Supercharge Global Cybersecurity
Science & Technology

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Unites Tech Leaders in Face of Growing AI Power That Can Either Shatter or Supercharge Global Cybersecurity

Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks… What do all of these companies have in common besides their massive tech industry presence? Apparently, they all care about AI models able to discover “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web […]

Noah Becomes Hyperbeat On-Chain Banking Partner to Help Move $300B in Monthly DeFi Volume
Blockchain & Crypto

Noah Becomes Hyperbeat On-Chain Banking Partner to Help Move $300B in Monthly DeFi Volume

A strategic alliance between Noah and Hyperbeat establishes the payment provider as the default EUR, USD, and other major currency settlement engine for on-chain “Liquid Banking” layer, creating a seamless bridge between local bank accounts and the HyperEVM chain.

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Meets Nubank CEO to Advance Digital Banking Innovation: Is LatAm Neobanking Giant Moving to Middle East?
Fintech & Ecommerce

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Meets Nubank CEO to Advance Digital Banking Innovation: Is LatAm Neobanking Giant Moving to Middle East?

It doesn’t happen every day that Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi meets with CEO of one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world. Does the meeting signal Nubank upcoming expansion to the Middle East region?

Razorpay & OpenAI Expand Collaboration With Codex Integration Powering Instant AI App Monetisation
Fintech & Ecommerce

Razorpay & OpenAI Expand Collaboration With Codex Integration Powering Instant AI App Monetisation

Following the cooperation on India’s first AI agent-powered conversational payment experience, Razorpay and OpenAI introduce a new intriguing joint initiative helping developers finally monetize their AI product development without friction.

SBC Summit Malta to Explore the Trends Driving the Future of Casino
Society & Lifestyle

SBC Summit Malta to Explore the Trends Driving the Future of Casino

As new technology and shifting player expectations continue to reshape the world of iGaming, SBC Summit Malta will feature sessions dedicated to helping stakeholders confidently navigate the sector’s next phase.

Uber Taps AWS New Chips to Optimize Rides Matching With Millisecond Precision
Science & Technology

Uber Taps AWS New Chips to Optimize Rides Matching With Millisecond Precision

To boost the optimization of ride-sharing and on-demand delivery services, two segments where speed and matching accuracy matter dearly, Uber expands its continuous collaboration with Amazon’s AWS, testing new chip models for smarter AI predictions and handling demand spikes in real-time.