Ant to Pilot Card-Based Agentic AI Payments
Ant Group’s global merchant payments powerhouse unit, Antom, has made a foray into agentic payments, enabling AI agents to initiate and complete transactions on users’ behalf.
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Airwallex Acquires OpenPay, Adds Billing to Automate Customer Revenue
Airwallex’s acquisition of OpenPay combines global payments infrastructure with advanced subscription and usage-based billing tools, giving businesses a unified, multicurrency platform to scale recurring revenue and simplify cross-border commerce.
Stripe Expands in Japan With Terminal for Unified Commerce
Stripe launched its Terminal service in Japan, complemented by new cellular-enabled readers and integrations with local methods like PayPay and WeChat Pay, to simplify payments and reconciliation across online and in-store channels.
5 Best Payment Orchestration Platforms in 2025
A payment orchestration platform is a set of tools and services that assist in unifying and managing the different aspects of transaction processing from start to finish. Typically, the core elements include connections to various payment service providers (PSPs), transaction routing, cascading, fraud protection, automated reconciliation and settlements, vaulting, tokenization, compliance, and comprehensive analytics and […]
Bridging the Instant Payment Divide: How FedNow Could Emulate UPI and Pix
While FedNow is a rapidly expanding instant payment network in the U.S., we cannot help but wonder how this growth compares to the real-time transactions behemoths like Indian UPI and Brazilian Pix.
Thunes Partners With Ripple to Streamline Global Money Movement Over Blockchain Rails
Thunes Direct Global Network will leverage Ripple’s blockchain-powered payments solutions to make cross-border payments more accessible and efficient.
Klarna Expands Debit-First Card Offering to EU
The Klarna Card is debit-by-default, so purchases are settled immediately from the user’s funds, while the benefits of Klarna’s flexible repayment options still remain.
TrueLayer Enhances Poland’s Instant Payment Ecosystem
One of Europe’s fastest-growing payment networks, TrueLayer, will complement the existing BLIK solution in the instant transaction market of Poland.
SEA Shoppers Prefer Digital Wallets for Cross-Border Shopping
Mobile wallets are now the payment method of choice across Southeast Asia, with 83% of Indonesian shoppers and 80% of Malaysians opting for them when making international purchases.
YC-Backed Munify Raises $3M to Build Cross-Border Neobank for Egyptians Abroad
Munify, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 startup founded by ex-Microsoft and Uber engineer Khalid Ashmawy, has raised $3 million in seed funding to make remittances faster and cheaper while giving residents in Egypt access to U.S. banking services.
Finastra and Circle Unlock Cross-Border Settlement with Stablecoins
The collaboration between Finastra and Circle allows financial institutions to experiment with and roll out new stablecoin payment models that merge blockchain innovation with the reliability and reach of traditional banking.
Estonian Startup Creem Secures Pre-Seed Funding to Promote Financial OS for AI-Native Businesses
Tallinn-based fintech Creem helps AI-driven startups scale, handle payments and taxes, and automate financial workflows.
Mastercard Shares Insights on How Practical Tech Turns Users into Active Customers
A study conducted by Mastercard and RCBC reveals that access to payment-enabled devices does not automatically translate into active financial participation. What practical tech aspects do drive financial inclusion then?
XBD Group and Levl Expand Global Payment Access with High-Speed Settlement
The collaboration between Levl and XBD Group is designed to improve global cross-border payments, making them faster, more affordable, and easily scalable.
Rappi Teams Up With AstroPay for Latin America’s First Super-App Wallet
Latin America’s first wallet-on-file integration based on AstroPay infrastructure inside a super-app allows users in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru to set up a digital wallet directly within the Rappi super-app.
Top 5 Things to Consider When Choosing a White-Label Payment Gateway
Choosing the right white-label payment gateway can be a crucial decision for any business looking to offer payment processing services to its customers. The right payment gateway helps businesses streamline their payment processes and enhance customer experience, while the wrong choice leads to numerous issues, from payment delays to lost revenue. With so many white-label […]
Payments are the transfer of money between two parties in exchange for goods, services, or to settle obligations. They can be made through various online and offline methods like cash, cards, bank transfers, mobile wallets, or digital currencies.
Payments are foundational to the fintech industry. They represent the most frequent and essential financial interaction between individuals, businesses, and institutions. In fintech, innovations in payments focus on making transactions faster, affordable, more secure, and inclusive.
These money transfers are often the entry point for broader digital financial services, such as lending, insurance, or investment, and play a key role in driving financial inclusion and global commerce.
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