Polymarket is drawing scrutiny over how it handled a fraud scheme on its US platform, according to a Wall Street Journal report published September 20. The report, based on interviews with current and former employees and investors, describes a pattern of compliance failures and legal challenges the company has faced while pursuing rapid growth.
US President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he will name a new artificial intelligence “czar” to lead an “AI Force,” an agency he compared to the Space Force he created during his first term. The announcement came in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.
Huawei has launched a new AI platform for banks to own their artificial intelligence (AI) stack.
Fintech funding kept moving this week — here’s a look at four of the latest raises in payments infrastructure, agentic AI for lenders, consumer mortgage technology, and general Baltic investment sector.
Popular crypto exchange Coinbase and prediction market Kalshi have both filed proposals to offer perpetual futures tied to individual US stocks.
The number of merchants using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to integrate payment services with Ant International has quadrupled over the past 12 months, the company noted. As the demand grows, the company plans broader rollout of AI-native tools across payments, foreign exchange, treasury, and credit operations.
The Indian government announced on September 15, 2026, that a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR), fee charged for processing digital payments, will apply to Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions for the first time in nearly six years.
Convera, a commercial payments provider, has launched a global report warning that businesses face a growing “volatility gap” — the widening distance between how quickly money moves across borders and how effectively companies manage the currency risk tied to those movements.
Small and medium-sized enterprises across Asia Pacific are adopting digital tools, new payment methods and artificial intelligence at a fast pace, according to Mastercard’s newly released Dreamonomics Report. But the same businesses driving this technology adoption are also asking for something simpler: fewer disconnected systems and more unified ways to run their operations.
Belgian payment provider Payworld is expanding Wero acceptance into physical stores, allowing customers to pay by scanning a Wero QR code displayed directly on a payment terminal.
The PAY360 Awards has today revealed the shortlist for 2026, and it is the strongest the awards have seen in nearly two decades. Record entries. Household names alongside fast-moving challengers. A field that reflects exactly what the payments industry looks like right now: competitive, innovative and showing no signs of slowing down.
One Day. One Venue. One Industry. The reimagined summit will bring a carefully selected audience of C-level executives and senior financial markets professionals to London on 24 November.
The rise in US bond yields is producing two different readings of the national economy. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has pointed to stronger growth, investment and competition for capital as important reasons for higher long-term yields. At the same time, large fiscal deficits, a growing debt burden and higher borrowing costs are keeping attention […]
Money20/20 Middle East closed its active three-day run in Riyadh this week, bringing the fintech community a set of regulatory announcements from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), a new unicorn in the Kingdom’s payments sector, and cross-border card interoperability with Qatar.
Circle has launched Layer 1 blockchain Arc for stablecoin payments and other financial transactions. More than hundred institutions are already testing the new network.
As US Senate vote on the crypto regulation bill known as Clarity Act failed this week, bitcoin’s price declined along with the share prices of crypto-linked companies, including Coinbase and Circle. Vote hold for an uncertain period also affects crypto service developers in less visible ways.
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