Sri Lanka has doubled its effort to make QR payments part of its citizens’ everyday life, removing merchant fees on LankaQR transactions up to 5,000 rupees, trying to shift consumers and small vendors away from cash and into digital rails.
Western Union will now have its own wallet service in Singapore, extending its existing presence of 80 agent locations in the country with the digital payment reach of over 1,4 million local citizens using Dash, previously owned by Singtel.
A practical checklist for navigating VAMP, 3DS2, and Compelling Evidence 3.0 — the three Visa and Mastercard frameworks now shaping payment compliance across card-not-present transactions.
Fintech firm Mercury is accelerating its push to become a full-service financial platform for businesses, entering the payroll market through the acquisition of AI startup Central, while reportedly pursuing a new funding round at valuation exceeding $5B.
For fifty years, SWIFT has been the invisible toll booth of global finance, moving messages, not money, while banks queue up on either side waiting days for transactions to clear. That model is now under structural assault. The most visible force leading the charge is private blockchain infrastructure. One example of that is JPMorgan Chase […]
What if you could pay for a holiday booking in Slovakia, a subscription in Portugal, or a marketplace order in Italy — all with the same app you use to split a lunch bill in Warsaw? For 21 million BLIK users, that future just got a lot closer.
A new push to redesign how money moves online is gaining momentum, as Coinbase and partners roll out the x402 Foundation with support of Linux Foundation — an initiative aimed at turning payments into a native function of the internet itself.
The global payments landscape continues to evolve rapidly, with new launches and updates from Xero, Checkout.com, Paysend and more highlighting a clear shift toward merchant empowerment, regional sovereignty, and cross-border infrastructure upgrades.
UPI can not just move money digitally now but also bring cash to Indian users within minutes at a neighborhood store. The functionality is soon-to-be available via Ezeepay new UPI Cash-Out service.
On June 9–10, 2026, Baku will host the “International Finance & Banking Summit 2026”. The summit is designed as a high-level platform to accelerate the integration of Turkic-speaking countries’ financial systems into the global financial space. The event is organized with the support of the Council of the Banking Associations of the Turkic States (CBATS), […]
From subscription management to stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure, this week delivered a concentrated burst of fintech news that signals where the industry’s attention and capital is pointing in early 2026. Here are the five stories shaping the conversation.
Global payment and treasury management platform SUNRATE has relocated its Kuala Lumpur operations to a larger office at Menara Binjai, as the Singapore-headquartered company deepens its presence in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing fintech markets.
RS2 has spent decades powering payments behind the scenes. Now it’s stepping into the consumer card payments spotlight and the $17.55bn co-branded card market it’s entering explains why.
The line between traditional finance and decentralised finance is getting blurrier by the day and IAMTN has decided not to wait around for the dust to settle. The global trade association for cross-border payments has announced a strategic partnership with Next Generation NGPES, marking what both parties describe as a first-of-its-kind collaboration between an industry […]
Nexi, the European PayTech, and PayPal have announced a significant expansion of their partnership, embedding PayPal’s payments ecosystem directly into Nexi’s merchant platform across five EU countries.
Explore the 2026 stablecoin showdown between Apple Wallet and PayPal. Compare fees, usability, and global reach as PayPal expands PYUSD to 70 markets and Apple enables USDC payments via Apple Pay merchant integrations.
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