Sunrate and Mastercard have released a joint white paper, Beyond Automation: Defining Agentic Global Payments, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai.
The European Commission has taken one of its most significant steps yet to loosen Google’s control over the Android ecosystem, adopting binding requirements under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will require the company to open key Android capabilities to competing artificial intelligence assistants and share portions of its search data with eligible rivals.
Escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are doing more than shaking global financial markets. They are also making cross-border payments more expensive. Here’s how. Rising oil prices and geopolitical tensions are increasing cross-border payments costs by driving foreign exchange volatility and raising hedging expenses for payment service providers. Combined with diverging Federal Reserve and […]
Visa has unveiled a new institutional stablecoin platform, marking another step in the payment giant’s expansion beyond traditional card processing towards blockchain-based financial infrastructure. The new tool is not a consumer payment product. The initiative is designed to support institutional participants managing stablecoin operations at scale instead.
The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 indicates that 79% of adults own a financial account, with the use of digital financial services continuing to rise. In this day and age, digital payments are mainstream, and a wealth of digital financial platforms is reshaping how users manage their savings, spending, and investments. Speed, accuracy, and analytics […]
Money20/20 Europe is the highest-scoring payments event for 2026 in PaySpace Magazine’s benchmark, followed by MPE – Merchant Payments Ecosystem and Money20/20 USA.
Payment security has spent two decades treating automated traffic as a threat to be filtered out. Agentic commerce is reversing that logic. Visa has enrolled local banks in its Agentic Ready programme, Mastercard has launched Agent Pay, and OpenAI has integrated Instant Checkout with Stripe. In March 2026, Mastercard and Google open-sourced a protocol called […]
Payment providers are widening how and where money moves, from BNPL at the checkout of long-distance travel, to a mobile wallet issuing its own cards, and a wallet infrastructure provider deepening multi-currency support for global platforms.
This year, PaySpace Magazine Global team had a chance to visit Point Zero Forum, which ran alongside Swiss Fintech Week 2026, held in Zurich from June 19 to June 25. The two parallel events covered AI adoption in banking, agentic commerce, and the infrastructure for programmable money. As those topics are among the most-discussed within […]
Cedar Money and Noah have announced a strategic partnership aimed at improving cross-border payment infrastructure for businesses trading between Africa and international markets. The collaboration combines Cedar’s regulated compliance framework with Noah’s stablecoin-powered payment technology to help importers and exporters settle international invoices more efficiently while meeting global regulatory requirements.
Payments platform Kurv has appointed Mark Alsentzer as Chief Technology Officer, the company announced.
Abhi Saudi, powered by Alraedah Digital Solutions, has announced a partnership with TAM Aerospace & Defense, an aviation services provider in Saudi Arabia, to introduce Earned Wage Access (EWA) for the company’s workforce.
Hangzhou-based Alipay has integrated an AI agent into its Tap! payment devices, extending AI-powered services to the millions of offline merchants that use the hardware. The company describes the update as the basis for the world’s first large-scale AI-powered offline business operations network.
Melanion Digital has integrated Fipto’s payment infrastructure to support subscriptions in stablecoins for its Luxembourg-domiciled Sigma Market Neutral Fund.
Float has launched its card-linked instalment platform in the UK, introducing a payment option that allows consumers to split eligible credit card purchases into interest- and fee-free monthly instalments using the credit already available on their existing Visa or Mastercard. The company says its model differs from traditional buy now, pay later (BNPL) products because […]
Global payments company Payfuture has launched a new integration with Shopify that enables merchants to accept popular local payment methods in India through a single connection. This system is aimed at streamlining payment processing in this growing market.
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