Global payments infrastructure company Mangopay has revealed a striking gap between industry rhetoric and reality: despite years of investment in AI and digital transformation, the majority of UK businesses processing high volumes of transactions remain stuck in manual, fragmented, and low-visibility payment operations.
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.
AI payment processing product from Alipay is part of the firm’s AI Pay offering. It enables businesses of all sizes, including One Person Companies (OPCs) that account for 30% of all enterprises in the Chinese mainland, to receive agentic payments seamlessly when autonomous AI agents, including OpenClaw-type agents, purchase their services or products.
Gig economy requires modern flexible payment methods, something that DoorDash aims to provide with a new stablecoins infrastructure.
The International PLUS-Forum Digital Uzbekistan will be held in Tashkent on May 19-20, 2026. It is the largest event in Central Asia dedicated to the digital transformation of public services, the financial sector, payments infrastructure, and the development of the fintech ecosystem.
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.
Pakistani neobank and SME lender ABHI has teamed up with Federal Exchange, a UAE-based currency exchange and remittance provider, to offer faster digital cross-border payments services to individuals and businesses across the region.
By Ivan Vukelikj, Product Manager Payment and Identity, G+D Netcetera The acquiring business has never been easy. But for most of the last decade, the core technology decisions were relatively stable: support the card networks, implement 3-D Secure, manage chargebacks, keep fraud low. That chapter has now come to an end.
AI news roundup, April 2026: Razorpay launches agentic payments, SpaceX partners with Cursor, National Security Agency works with Anthropic, Amex introduces agentic commerce stack, while Google expands Gemini, and OpenAI attracts top talent.
The payments landscape keeps moving fast. This roundup covers payments, digital banking, and fintech developments across Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Updates are selected for strategic significance and practical consumer relevance. Find out more about a Swiss neobank quietly climbing the leaderboard, Mercado Pago deepening its grip on Brazilian businesses, a consumer protection warning reshaping […]
The future where AI agents get more room to pay for products and services seems to be getting nearer. Most fintech providers are already preparing common protocols, controls, and payment rails that will help agentic commerce bloom full-scale. Don’t we forget anything? Whether agentic or not, commerce remains basically sales, which, besides purchases, also involve […]
APAC businesses can speed up B2B cross-border settlement from days to hours with the capabilities of Damisa’s regulated stablecoin infrastructure multiplied by dLocal’s regional payment rails.
EBANX, a payment technology company connecting merchants with consumers and businesses in emerging markets, announced the expansion of its recurring alternative payment methods (APMs) offering to six additional countries: the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, Colombia, and Peru.
SUNRATE, a global payment and treasury management platform, announced that it has signed an agreement with Hong Kong’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (OASES), becoming a strategic enterprise in the city.
Visa has launched a new “Creator Card” in the UK so that TikTok LIVE earnings reach the online entrepreneurs faster and more simply.
Marek Belka, former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, to keynote address at UNCHAIN Festival in Oradea
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