payments

Fintech & Ecommerce

Cashless Society: Myth or Reality? Top Cashless Nations Globally

Envision a future where all the transactions are paperless. For some, it feels like utopia with less theft and more convenience, while others suggest more dystopian scenarios where all your money and assets can be taken away by an evil omnipresent government at any moment. While I, personally, believe truth lies somewhere in between, many […]

Fintech & Ecommerce

Monzo Introduces Payment Reversal Option

Monzo customers may now have up to a minute to decide whether they want a transaction to proceed, thanks to the new payment reversal feature.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Perplexity Selects PayPal for AI-Powered Payments Within Its Agentic Commerce System

Perplexity and PayPal will allow AI agents on the Perplexity Pro platform to pay for products, travel bookings, or tickets requested by users.

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Dubai to Enable Crypto Payments for Government Services

Dubai Finance and Crypto.com partner to allow UAE citizens to pay for government services with crypto.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Adyen to Offer JCB Card-on-File Tokenization

Merchants who use Adyen platform will soon benefit from even more secure credit card transactions with JCB Card-on-File (COF) Tokenization technology.

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How Open Banking Progresses With API-Based Commercial Variable Recurring Payments (CVRPs) 

E-commerce subscriptions are doubling every year, with Gen Z driving its snowballing popularity. Where there’s demand for subscriptions, there’s also a need for efficiency in recurring payments. CVRPs are getting significant interest share from merchants and payment service providers, making them a potential new stage in open banking progress.

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Virtual Card Payments Go Mainstream in U.S.

Not only do Gen Z and millennials in the U.S. embrace virtual cards, but also older age cohorts resort to this innovative payment method if providers manage to raise proper awareness.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Alipay Launches Voice Call to Boost Financial Security

Alipay has launched a voice call feature that allows consumers to double-check their real identity before making fund transfers.

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NymCard Launches Open Finance Services

NymCard, the leading embedded finance platform in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), has announced that it has been officially licensed to provide Open Finance services to consumers.

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Wirex Business Expands Corporate Stablecoin Payments to BASE

Wirex Business aims to make stablecoin payments mainstream in corporate settings, integrating them with both BASE and traditional enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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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.

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Nordics and Estonia Roll Out Offline Card Payment Backup

Several European countries are rushing to strengthen the resilience of their payment systems against any sabotage, striving to make card payments available to citizens even offline in case of internet outages.

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GoCardless and Cloud Market Tools Integrate for Fully Automated Payment Collection

With the full integration of GoCardless within the Cloud Market Tools suite, MSP businesses can manage collections and reconciliations without leaving their routine billing system.

Blockchain & Crypto

Binance to Facilitate National Tourism Crypto Payment System in Bhutan

The tourism industry in Bhutan is the first globally to explore a nationwide cryptocurrency payment system powered by Binance Pay and DK Bank.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Nuvei Expands B2B Payments Capabilities for High-Growth Construction Vertical

Canadian fintech company Nuvei, which positions itself as a brand that accelerates payments on a global level, has announced the strategic expansion of its B2B transactions, starting to offer appropriate functional solutions for the construction sector of the United States, currently characterized by experts as something that corresponds to such a formulation as a fast-growing […]

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Revolut and Lightspark to Accelerate Bitcoin Payments

The cryptocurrency infrastructure company Lightspark and Revolut, as part of their cooperation, will direct joint efforts to accelerate Bitcoin transactions in the United Kingdom and Europe.