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Handwave Expands Visa Partnership to Scale Palm-Based Biometric Payments in Europe
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Handwave Expands Visa Partnership to Scale Palm-Based Biometric Payments in Europe

European fintech startup Handwave has expanded its agreement with Visa to support the rollout of biometric payments across European markets, combining palm-based payment technology with Visa’s tokenisation, authentication and fraud prevention capabilities.

India Card Payments Set for Steady Growth as Financial Inclusion and Credit Card Adoption Expand
Finance & Economics

India Card Payments Set for Steady Growth as Financial Inclusion and Credit Card Adoption Expand

India’s card payments market is expected to maintain steady growth in the coming years as financial inclusion expands, digital infrastructure improves and consumers increasingly shift away from cash. While debit cards continue to dominate the market, growing demand for credit cards and new use cases linked to India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) are expected to […]

EMVCo’s Agentic Payments Framework: What “Intent Services” Mean
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EMVCo’s Agentic Payments Framework: What “Intent Services” Mean

Every card network is racing to answer the same question: how do you let an AI agent spend a person’s money safely? The EMVCo agentic payments framework, published this week, is the card industry’s standards body stepping into that race not with its own payment product, but with a shared foundation the whole industry can […]

Citi Processes Live Dollar Payments on Swift Blockchain Ledger
Blockchain & Crypto

Citi Processes Live Dollar Payments on Swift Blockchain Ledger

Correspondent banking has run the same way for decades. Money typically moves between banks through a chain of intermediaries, and payments pause on weekends and holidays. That is finally starting to change, and Citi’s Swift blockchain ledger transactions this week are a bright illustration.

Top 20 Payment Gateway Providers of 2026. Part 2
Fintech & Ecommerce

Top 20 Payment Gateway Providers of 2026. Part 2

Payment gateway providers that will help you accept payments online

Top 20 Payment Gateway Providers of 2026. Part 1
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Top 20 Payment Gateway Providers of 2026. Part 1

One way or another, payment gateways play an essential role in the е-cоmmеrсе transaction sector

Confirmo Launches EU Stablecoin Payouts For Cross-Border Business Payments
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Confirmo Launches EU Stablecoin Payouts For Cross-Border Business Payments

Confirmo, a global stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, has begun processing mass stablecoin payouts for EU businesses. 

TOP World’s Most Prestigious Credit Cards
Society & Lifestyle

TOP World’s Most Prestigious Credit Cards

If you are living the high life with millions of dollars in your account balance, you’ve got an exclusive opportunity to become the owner of one of the world’s most exclusive credit cards.

Eftsure Acquires Relish, Protects $288B in Annual Payments With AI
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Eftsure Acquires Relish, Protects $288B in Annual Payments With AI

Eftsure, a company that helps businesses check payments are going to the right place, has bought Relish, a US AI-powered firm that checks and cleans up vendor data and automates invoice processing. 

Castles Technology Expands French Presence Ahead Of NRF Europe 2026
Science & Technology

Castles Technology Expands French Presence Ahead Of NRF Europe 2026

Castles Technology, a company that makes Android-based payment terminals, is deepening its investment in France as retailers, hotels, restaurants and self-service machine operators speed up their adoption of newer payment technology. 

Peak Season Prep Starts Now: Three Priorities For Ecommerce Companies Ahead Of Annual Code Freeze
Fintech & Ecommerce

Peak Season Prep Starts Now: Three Priorities For Ecommerce Companies Ahead Of Annual Code Freeze

By Melinda Ellis van Zyl, enterprise sales lead, Shiprazor The online retailers who win Q4 are the ones who do the hard work in September. By the time November comes around, it is too late.

Immigrants Who Send Money Home on WhatsApp Felix App Could Soon Use It as Their Bank
Society & Lifestyle

Immigrants Who Send Money Home on WhatsApp Felix App Could Soon Use It as Their Bank

For millions of Latino immigrants in the US, sending money home to family already happens inside WhatsApp, which they open every single day anyway. One Miami startup just bet $200 million that the same familiar chat window can become a lot more than a way to wire cash abroad.

India Is Building a Way for AI to Pay Your Bills
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India Is Building a Way for AI to Pay Your Bills

AI agents can soon pay your grocery order, your electricity bill, or your monthly subscription, without you tapping a single button. India may be about to make that real for hundreds of millions of people who use UPI.

Kurv CTO Mark Alsentzer On Proactive AI And The Future Of SMB Payments
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Kurv CTO Mark Alsentzer On Proactive AI And The Future Of SMB Payments

Most merchants still start their day the same way: log in, check a dashboard, compare money in against money out. Mark Alsentzer, Chief Technology Officer at Kurv, argues that this decades-old ritual is exactly what AI should be eliminating, not improving.

MoonPay PayBox Brings AI Crypto Payments to Grok
Blockchain & Crypto

MoonPay PayBox Brings AI Crypto Payments to Grok

Typing a sentence to a chatbot and watching it actually buy cryptocurrency for you used to sound like science fiction. Yet, today we have MoonPay’s PayBox live inside Grok, and that idea turns into a real, working feature for anyone eager to try it.

How Will Blockchain Change Retail Business: Top 5 Options
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How Will Blockchain Change Retail Business: Top 5 Options

Blockchain will change retail in five ways

Payments are the transfer of money between two parties in exchange for goods, services, or to settle obligations. They can be made through various online and offline methods like cash, cards, bank transfers, mobile wallets, or digital currencies. Payments are foundational to the fintech industry. They represent the most frequent and essential financial interaction between individuals, businesses, and institutions. In fintech, innovations in payments focus on making transactions faster, affordable, more secure, and inclusive. These money transfers are often the entry point for broader digital financial services, such as lending, insurance, or investment, and play a key role in driving financial inclusion and global commerce.