Global payments infrastructure company Mangopay has revealed a striking gap between industry rhetoric and reality: despite years of investment in AI and digital transformation, the majority of UK businesses processing high volumes of transactions remain stuck in manual, fragmented, and low-visibility payment operations.
Worldline, leading European payment service provider, has appointed Stefaan D’Hoore as Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer (second line of defence). D’Hoore joins the Group Executive Committee and will report directly to CEO Pierre-Antoine Vacheron.
AI payment processing product from Alipay is part of the firm’s AI Pay offering. It enables businesses of all sizes, including One Person Companies (OPCs) that account for 30% of all enterprises in the Chinese mainland, to receive agentic payments seamlessly when autonomous AI agents, including OpenClaw-type agents, purchase their services or products.
La Agencia Tributaria de España del Ministerio de Hacienda ha intensificado el uso de sistemas automatizados basados en inteligencia artificial (IA) para mejorar la detección de posibles errores y omisiones en la declaración de la renta, en un contexto de creciente digitalización de los ingresos de los contribuyentes. Según datos oficiales de la campaña fiscal […]
Listing of tGBP (licensed British pound-backed stablecoin) on Coinbase provides its 100 million users with access to the $30 million market cap asset, which can be key to serving UK customers once local crypto regulation is finalized.
Gig economy requires modern flexible payment methods, something that DoorDash aims to provide with a new stablecoins infrastructure.
Having a meaningful overlap with the Adyen merchant base, Talon.One platform for loyalty and e-commerce incentives will serve as a solid real-time insight foundation for Adyen’s Unified Commerce strategy.
Taranis Capital and Emaar Executive Company’s partnership is supported by the Saudi Investment Promotion Authority (SIPA), as their mutual initiative of carrier-neutral, hyperscaler-ready data centres is highly aligned with Saudi Vision 2030
The International PLUS-Forum Digital Uzbekistan will be held in Tashkent on May 19-20, 2026. It is the largest event in Central Asia dedicated to the digital transformation of public services, the financial sector, payments infrastructure, and the development of the fintech ecosystem.
From neobanks scaling crypto adoption to asset managers tokenizing billions and platforms doubling down on self-custody, digital finance is rapidly moving from experimentation to infrastructure. This week’s developments show how institutions like bunq, Legal & General Asset Management, and eToro are embedding digital assets deeper into mainstream finance, even as market volatility and emerging risks, […]
Digital banking platform myTU has partnered with E100, one of Europe’s larger fuel card and mobility services providers, to embed business banking and Visa payment cards directly into E100’s client portal for transport companies operating across the continent.
European payments technology company Nexi has struck a long-term agreement with Visa to bring fully managed card issuing services to German banks, offering institutions a way to modernize their card programs without taking on additional operational complexity.
Chinese automotive OS company Banma Intelligence and Alipay have jointly launched an in-car payments system that lets drivers buy tickets, book hotels, and order food using voice commands without needing their smartphones.
Pakistani neobank and SME lender ABHI has teamed up with Federal Exchange, a UAE-based currency exchange and remittance provider, to offer faster digital cross-border payments services to individuals and businesses across the region.
Large investors like BlackRock are pouring money back into U.S. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). After months of pulling money out, institutions have now recorded seven straight days of buying, pushing total assets across all 11 spot Bitcoin ETF products above $96.5 billion as of April 23, 2026.
AI news roundup, April 2026: Razorpay launches agentic payments, SpaceX partners with Cursor, National Security Agency works with Anthropic, Amex introduces agentic commerce stack, while Google expands Gemini, and OpenAI attracts top talent.
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