Palm-based biometric payments, once promoted as a frictionless alternative to cards and mobile wallets, are likely to face legal challenges in the European Union, even as their rollout in the United States has shown mixed results.
India’s Unified Payments Interface has long been celebrated as one of the most successful real-time payment infrastructures ever built. Meanwhile, many countries across the globe are noticing the convenience of Credit Line on UPI framework, which allows banks to extend pre-approved credit directly through the UPI stack, letting consumers spend borrowed funds as seamlessly as […]
Europe’s PayTech Nexi has integrated Wero, the homegrown European payment method, into German online retail. The first merchants (BAUR, Quelle and Bünting) are already on board.
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.
Tether still dominates the stablecoin market, but its 60% market share is gradually shrinking under the pressure of regulators’ favourite – USDC by Circle. USDC supply surged 220% since late 2023, as the token is satisfying the strictest MiCA compliance criteria, potentially also fitting into the upcoming U.S. stablecoin regulation under the GENIUS Act and […]
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.
Marek Belka, former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, to keynote address at UNCHAIN Festival in Oradea
In France, the CB network is reportedly striving to become the next payment sovereignty frontier as officials warn against overreliance on foreign payment methods, such as Visa and Mastercard.
U.S. wealth manager Corient adds over $10B AUM and expands European presence with the acquisition of Geneva-rooted Bedrock Group. Allong with late 2025 acquisitions to be approved, the firm’s combined client asset base will near $470B.
Social institutions, welfare organisations and municipalities will benefit from a collaboration between Hakisa and Beyond by RS2, launching integrated digital card-based expense management solution today.
The Entry/Exit System went fully live on 10 April 2026. The technology is working in EU. Getting through the airport is another matter.
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 […]
In 2025, Revolut saw stellar results of its ongoing expansion strategy, boasting 30% YoY user growth on top of the impressive private share sale valuing the company at about $75 billion. This article explores main milestones of the top European fintech unicorn to date and dissects Revolut’s growth story.
What if you could pay for a holiday booking in Slovakia, a subscription in Portugal, or a marketplace order in Italy — all with the same app you use to split a lunch bill in Warsaw? For 21 million BLIK users, that future just got a lot closer.
The past two weeks have delivered a concentrated burst of banking news that, taken together, paint a revealing portrait of where the industry is heading: data-sharing frameworks are maturing into serious economic infrastructure, challenger banks are sharpening their geographic focus, and fintechs from Lagos to Idaho are trading operational workarounds for proper banking licences. Here […]
The global payments landscape continues to evolve rapidly, with new launches and updates from Xero, Checkout.com, Paysend and more highlighting a clear shift toward merchant empowerment, regional sovereignty, and cross-border infrastructure upgrades.
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