Coinbase Investment Takes CoinDCX Valuation to $2,45B
Coinbase expresses its ongoing commitment to the Indian market by placing additional funding into local crypto exchange CoinCDX, which it has supported since 2020.
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Unlimit Secures Dual Token Service Provider Certification from Mastercard and Visa in India
The new certification from both major payment networks in India strengthens Unlimit’s role in the nation’s expanding digital payments market.
Amazon Bets on Family Payments and Wearables with UPI Circle to Deepen Its Fintech Footprint in India
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 SmartPOD: What Is It and How It Makes Checkout Frictionless?
PhonePe’s new SmartPOD bridges the gap between UPI and card payments, powering India’s next wave of digital commerce.
Biometric Payments Guide: How Fingerprints and Face Recognition Are Changing How We Transact
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 Targets 20M Users by 2030 as It Enters Indian Market With Payment and Forex Products
Revolut expands into India with ambitious growth plans, ready to invest over $670 million in this prospective market over five years.
India Launches AI-Powered UPI Commerce Payments on ChatGPT, Expanding Agentic Payments to Leading AI Platforms
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.
dLocal and XanderPay Join Efforts to Streamline Cross-Border Payments for Hospitality Sectors Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America
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.
Global Payments Revenue to Reach $2.4T by 2029
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.
Bridging the Instant Payment Divide: How FedNow Could Emulate UPI and Pix
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.
India’s PayNearby Targets IPO in 2026 to Fuel Financial Inclusion Services Growth
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.
Thunes & Ontop Enable Instant Global Payouts for Freelancers and Remote Teams
Freelancers and employees working in remote settings will benefit from the new real-time payment infrastructure brought by Thunes and Ontop.
Processing Power of Global Payment Networks
As India’s UPI has surpassed the industry giant, Visa, with over 650 million daily transactions, we prepared a brief illustration of the global payment networks’ processing volumes and values. Can real-time payments beat the cards?
Visa Dethroned: UPI Becomes World’s Most Used Payment System
India’s UPI has gone from a domestic game-changer to the world’s leading real-time payment system in less than a decade of its existence, surpassing the industry giant – Visa – with over 650 million daily transactions.
From Cards to Direct Transfers: The A2A Payment Transformation in Europe and Beyond
The global payment landscape is rapidly changing driven by a seismic shift in popular transaction methods. A closer look at payment statistics reveals that account-to-account (A2A) transfers are ascending in importance. Its growing dominance among other payment types is especially evident in the European market.
Amazon Reportedly Invests $41 Million in Amazon Pay India
The media published information according to which Amazon invested Rs 350 crore (about $41 billion) in Amazon Pay India.
