The AQ PC platform by Ant Group now offers two main AI functions for medical professionals: Health Q&A and DeepSearch. Together, these tools assist with medical literature search, clinical practice, and research, helping reduce daily workload and improve access to reliable medical information.
PhotonPay has obtained a U.S. Money Transmitter License (MTL), a regulatory milestone that strengthens the company’s ability to provide regulated payments and payout services across North America and advances its broader strategy to build a stablecoin-centric digital financial infrastructure.
Revolut has joined the ranks of agentic commerce enablers, as payment providers worldwide accelerate efforts to enable AI-driven checkout; meanwhile, consumer and merchant trust and safeguards remain a work in progress.
The UAE has recorded its first live Open Finance payment after Ziina successfully executed a customer-initiated account-to-account transaction in partnership with Lean Technologies.
The High Court rejected the legal suit by Visa, Mastercard, and Revolut, holding that financial regulators in the UK have strong powers to intervene in payment pricing, even without explicit fee-cap language in the legislation.
PhotonPay customers in the UK can now access named GBP accounts and local payment rails, improving reconciliation, speed, and compliance across domestic payments.
Ethereum’s growing role in financial settlement has drawn the attention of central banks, with the Bank of Italy modeling how extreme price declines in Ether could pose infrastructure and stability risks.
With demand growing for flexible and hardware-free payment acceptance, Ingenico, Samsung, and Talus have launched a mobile business operating solution for merchants across North America.
AI agent platform development is not only pursued by TradFi behemoths, but also actively promoted by digital assets and Web3 players, like Neuramint startup that has just secured its $5M funding to build agentic workflows for DeFi.
Alipay has launched the Agentic Commerce Trust Protocol in collaboration with several partners, including Alibaba’s own consumer-facing AI application Qwen App, Taobao Instant Commerce, Rokid, Damai, and Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform.
Akurateco and Payaza have entered a strategic partnership to enhance payment acceptance and orchestration capabilities across Africa while maintaining access to global payment corridors.
The Scottish Africa Business Association (SABA) has published its Annual Report for 2025, outlining a year of organisational growth, increased member engagement, and expanded activity across Scotland, London, and several African markets. The report highlights SABA’s work in supporting market access, advisory services, trade missions, and stakeholder engagement.
Worldline, a European payment services provider, has introduced new capabilities designed to enable AI agents to interact with its global payment infrastructure. The additions aim to make payment systems compatible with agent-based workflows and allow merchants to test AI-supported commerce use cases.
BNPL pioneer Klarna is further expanding its service range with a new instant P2P payments feature now available in 13 European countries.
Synchrony has broadened its CareCredit financing capabilities by fully integrating the solution into the Clover App Market, enabling streamlined patient financing and payments for more than 40,000 health and wellness providers.
Global payments technology company FSS has achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for artificial intelligence management systems, becoming the first payments provider across India, MEA, APAC and South Africa to meet the new AI governance standard.
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