New JCB data on rapidly rising cross-border spending reveal the growing popularity of European locations among Asian tourists, while APAC consumers also increase their payment volumes at EU online stores.
Rather than exposing the full OpenAI ChatGPT interface, PhonePe will embed AI-powered tools tailored to payment-use cases in its consumer and business apps, so that users can ask for help with travel planning, product recommendations, or comparison before making UPI payments.
Indian travellers can now pay in Malaysia just as easily as they do back home, as Razorpay and NPCI International have joined forces to bring India’s UPI payment system to Malaysian merchants
Razorpay, in partnership with Yes Bank, has recently launched a biometric-card-authentication system for online card payments, so that instead of entering a PIN/OTP, you can authenticate e-commerce purchases via fingerprint or face ID.
Coinbase expresses its ongoing commitment to the Indian market by placing additional funding into local crypto exchange CoinCDX, which it has supported since 2020.
The new certification from both major payment networks in India strengthens Unlimit’s role in the nation’s expanding digital payments market.
Amazon Pay has introduced the UPI Circle feature, enabling its 100 million UPI user base in India to share payments. Here’s how it could help the tech giant to capture a larger market share in one of the world’s fastest-growing fintech ecosystems.
PhonePe’s new SmartPOD bridges the gap between UPI and card payments, powering India’s next wave of digital commerce.
It is predicted that, as soon as 2030, every one in four people globally will be using biometric tech to secure payments, while digital identity verification will pass traditional identity verification in volume. Why are biometric payments so popular, and why has their adoption accelerated in recent years? This article sheds light on everything you […]
Revolut expands into India with ambitious growth plans, ready to invest over $670 million in this prospective market over five years.
With a new multilateral pilot AI payment project, ChatGPT users in India are now able to discover products and complete purchases using India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) directly within the ChatGPT experience. Gemini and Claude are next in line for agentic payment testing.
As partners, dLocal and XanderPay aim to facilitate cross-border payments for hotels and online travel agencies (OTAs) in various markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Although annual revenue growth is expected to slow from 8.8% to 4.0% within the next five years, global payments revenue is still forecast to increase to $2.4 trillion by 2029, as agentic AI, digital currencies, and fintech business models boost the growth.
While FedNow is a rapidly expanding instant payment network in the U.S., we cannot help but wonder how this growth compares to the real-time transactions behemoths like Indian UPI and Brazilian Pix.
PayNearby, built on a network of 1.2M neighborhood retailers driving financial inclusion, is gearing up for a 2026 IPO as India’s fintech market reaches new heights.
Freelancers and employees working in remote settings will benefit from the new real-time payment infrastructure brought by Thunes and Ontop.
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