This spring, our team had the pleasure of attending the Mega Event and Airline & Travel Payments Summit (ATPS) 2026, held on May 19-20 at the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport, Ireland, and came back with plenty of insights relevant to the fintech community.
The 6th International PLUS-Forum Digital Uzbekistan, a key event in the digital economy of Central Asia, took place at the AZIMUT Grand Hotel Tashkent on May 19–20. Organized by the PLUS Group, the event was supported by the National Agency for Perspective Project, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan (CCI), […]
The UK Payments Initiative (UKPI), a new open banking payments scheme developed through collaboration between the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), banks and fintech companies, has officially launched with the first live commercial deployments of recurring Pay by Bank payments in the country.
Payment technology company Worldline and banking group ING said they have completed what the companies describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in a production environment using the Mastercard network.
Amsterdam – June 2, 2026 – RedotPay announced the launch of RedotPay Connect at Money20/20 Europe. The company said the product is its first B2B payment offering since the company was founded.
These top five AI developments illustrate how artificial intelligence is embedding itself across the financial technology landscape in 2026, be it hardware, banking infrastructure, or credit card payments.
Visa Intelligent Commerce and Basis Theory enable a new Agentic Cards API capability developed by Crossmint for agents in OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes, Zo Computer, and other agentic platforms to pay for things with supported Visa cards.
After the successful Brazil deployment, Juspay is rolling out Click to Pay functionality globally due to the Mastercard Engage partner program.
The global Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) market is projected to grow from approximately $235 billion to over $1.6 trillion by 2034, according to a study published by Global Market Insights, Inc.
The deal adds over 7,000 studios to Bilt’s redemption network and signals fintech push to own consumer spending beyond rent.
Silverflow, a cloud-native payment processing company based in Amsterdam, has moved into a new headquarters in the Overamstel neighborhood and expanded its global workforce from 85 to over 100 employees.
This April, our team visited SBC Summit Malta, a premier event that gathered 6,000 betting and iGaming professionals at the InterContinental Hotel for strategic discussions, networking, and hands-on learning in multiple workshop experiences.
Indian fintech company Cashfree Payments said it recorded revenue of around ₹1,000 crore in FY26 and achieved EBITDA profitability in March 2026. The company is now targeting full-year EBITDA profitability in FY27.
Payment infrastructure company DECTA has published findings from a study examining two specific failure points in digital banking and payment apps: the frequency with which automated systems block or decline user transactions, and the rate at which AI chatbots subsequently fail to resolve the resulting issues.
On May 26, Alipay, which is an Ant Group digital payments company, introduced two solutions at its AI Payment Ecosystem Conference in Hangzhou: AI Wallet and Token Pay.
Global payments infrastructure provider TransFi has announced that Victor Lucena has been appointed as the company’s new chief executive officer for Latin America, as the company expands its cross-border payments and stablecoin capabilities in the region.
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