Convera, a commercial payments provider, has launched a global report warning that businesses face a growing “volatility gap” — the widening distance between how quickly money moves across borders and how effectively companies manage the currency risk tied to those movements.
Small and medium-sized enterprises across Asia Pacific are adopting digital tools, new payment methods and artificial intelligence at a fast pace, according to Mastercard’s newly released Dreamonomics Report. But the same businesses driving this technology adoption are also asking for something simpler: fewer disconnected systems and more unified ways to run their operations.
Belgian payment provider Payworld is expanding Wero acceptance into physical stores, allowing customers to pay by scanning a Wero QR code displayed directly on a payment terminal.
The PAY360 Awards has today revealed the shortlist for 2026, and it is the strongest the awards have seen in nearly two decades. Record entries. Household names alongside fast-moving challengers. A field that reflects exactly what the payments industry looks like right now: competitive, innovative and showing no signs of slowing down.
One Day. One Venue. One Industry. The reimagined summit will bring a carefully selected audience of C-level executives and senior financial markets professionals to London on 24 November.
The 32nd Edition Connected Banking Summit – Innovation & Excellence Awards 2026, organised by the International Center for Strategic Alliances (ICSA), will take place on 13 November 2026 in Muscat, Oman.
Money20/20 Middle East closed its active three-day run in Riyadh this week, bringing the fintech community a set of regulatory announcements from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), a new unicorn in the Kingdom’s payments sector, and cross-border card interoperability with Qatar.
PayPal’s decision to add Pix to checkout for small and medium-sized businesses in Brazil reflects how deeply the payment method is now embedded in the country’s commerce. According to Central Bank data cited by PayPal, more than 170 million individuals, representing over 90% of Brazil’s adult population, have already used Pix.
Businesses are increasingly connecting to multiple payment providers to protect transactions from outages, but many have yet to develop the automated routing and control needed for full payment orchestration, according to new research from RS2.
A patient is cleared for discharge at 10 AM. By 4 PM, they’re still in the bed — not because of medicine, but because the billing desk is waiting on a TPA to confirm a final number. Multiply that by every bed in a mid-size hospital, every single day, and you start to see why […]
Worldline has become one of the first payment providers in Europe to launch a payment handler for the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).
Paymentus Holdings Inc. (NYSE: PAY) and PYMNTS Intelligence have released the Service Commerce Performance Gap Report study measuring differences between what consumers expect from billing and payment experiences and what service providers believe they deliver. The revealed gap lies not only in frustrated expectations. It has material tag on it too. The report finds that […]
The UK payments industry broadly supports the government’s National Payments Vision, but new research shows limited confidence that the programme will be delivered smoothly.
Better cross-border rails can shorten settlement, but finance teams still need a plan for disputes, broken promises and insolvency. By Lars Holdgaard, Founder of Debitura
Silverflow, a cloud-native card payment processing platform, has partnered with Griner, a Cyprus-based payments processor, to support the latter’s expansion across European markets. The companies said the partnership follows an initial launch in Cyprus, where transaction volumes have increased month on month as more merchants have joined the platform.
Starbucks and Alipay together launched an AI-powered “Coffee Alarm Clock” in China. The new service allows consumers to schedule recurring Starbucks orders through Alipay’s AI agent, Ah Bao.
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