Digital wallets are omnipresent today. You’re probably wondering what drives their annual double-digit growth. Well, they’re convenient, secure, and simple to use. Yet, that’s not all the reasons. Social commerce stands out among numerous other factors, catalysing digital wallet adoption in a discrete yet powerful way.
Digital challenger Lunar becomes the first bank in the Nordics to start Visa card processing on Pismo’s cloud platform, while its partnership with Wise allows Lunar customers to send money abroad at favourable terms.
German fintech Unzer joins the ranks of the European Payments Initiative (EPI) to advocate for the unified EU payment infrastructure enabled by the digital wallet Wero.
For three days between June 3 and 5, Amsterdam hosted the top industry professionals at a leading global fintech event – Money20/20 Europe 2025. Top executives, innovators, and thought leaders from around the world gathered in the heart of the Netherlands to discuss the key trends in financial technology and payments. Here’s what was on […]
Envision a future where all the transactions are paperless. For some, it feels like utopia with less theft and more convenience, while others suggest more dystopian scenarios where all your money and assets can be taken away by an evil omnipresent government at any moment. While I, personally, believe truth lies somewhere in between, many […]
Monzo customers may now have up to a minute to decide whether they want a transaction to proceed, thanks to the new payment reversal feature.
Perplexity and PayPal will allow AI agents on the Perplexity Pro platform to pay for products, travel bookings, or tickets requested by users.
Dubai Finance and Crypto.com partner to allow UAE citizens to pay for government services with crypto.
Merchants who use Adyen platform will soon benefit from even more secure credit card transactions with JCB Card-on-File (COF) Tokenization technology.
E-commerce subscriptions are doubling every year, with Gen Z driving its snowballing popularity. Where there’s demand for subscriptions, there’s also a need for efficiency in recurring payments. CVRPs are getting significant interest share from merchants and payment service providers, making them a potential new stage in open banking progress.
Not only do Gen Z and millennials in the U.S. embrace virtual cards, but also older age cohorts resort to this innovative payment method if providers manage to raise proper awareness.
Alipay has launched a voice call feature that allows consumers to double-check their real identity before making fund transfers.
NymCard, the leading embedded finance platform in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), has announced that it has been officially licensed to provide Open Finance services to consumers.
Wirex Business aims to make stablecoin payments mainstream in corporate settings, integrating them with both BASE and traditional enterprise-grade infrastructure.
The global payment landscape is rapidly changing driven by a seismic shift in popular transaction methods. A closer look at payment statistics reveals that account-to-account (A2A) transfers are ascending in importance. Its growing dominance among other payment types is especially evident in the European market.
Several European countries are rushing to strengthen the resilience of their payment systems against any sabotage, striving to make card payments available to citizens even offline in case of internet outages.
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