Account-to-account (A2A) payment systems are spearheading a fundamental shift in global payment infrastructure. They change the familiar payment patterns through the use of direct bank transfers that bypass card networks altogether. Three examples of this rapid evolution occurred in late 2025 and early 2026.
Consumers favour independent AI shopping assistants over AI tools embedded within retail, travel and delivery platforms for product discovery, but continue to rely on marketplaces to complete transactions, according to new international research from PSE Consulting.
Shoptalk Europe 2026 unveiled five major predictions for the next decade of European retail at its Barcelona event, outlining how AI shopping agents, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, the recommerce economy, personalised physical stores, and AI-driven supply chain transformation will reshape retail by 2036.
A new analysis from climate advocacy group 350.org suggests that elevated oil and gas prices could continue to impose substantial costs on households and businesses through the remainder of 2026, even as diplomatic efforts between the United States and Iran advance and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz resumes.
AI commerce company Rezolve Ai has released shopper behaviour data indicating that purchase patterns in e-commerce are shifting.
Nearly half of consumers surveyed across four major Western markets would choose a free, advertising-influenced AI shopping assistant over paying for fully impartial recommendations, according to new research from payments consultancy PSE Consulting.
Payment infrastructure company DECTA has published findings from a study examining two specific failure points in digital banking and payment apps: the frequency with which automated systems block or decline user transactions, and the rate at which AI chatbots subsequently fail to resolve the resulting issues.
Results in the Swedish and Finnish consulting sectors were mixed during Q1 2026. According to the most recent findings of Cinodes’ analysis of publicly listed consulting firms Q1 financial statements, growth for the period continues to be slightly negative, and headcount has continued to decline after several quarters of improvement following the second half of […]
A UK government-commissioned report by the Financial Services Skills Commission (FSSC) estimates that artificial intelligence (AI) could automate around 30% to 50% of tasks in most financial services roles.
One place where Lionel Messi outpaces Cristiano Ronaldo by 26% is real-world breached password dataset base analyzed for a recent cybersecurity report.
A survey of 300 UK chief financial officers has found that finance teams at companies with annual turnover above £20 million are spending a significant share of their working week (over an hour each day) on manual administrative tasks.
Mobile money growth is part of the broader trend of digital financial services expansion across global economies. In 2025, global mobile money transactions exceeded $2 trillion, according to the latest report by GSMA.
Global payments infrastructure company Mangopay has revealed a striking gap between industry rhetoric and reality: despite years of investment in AI and digital transformation, the majority of UK businesses processing high volumes of transactions remain stuck in manual, fragmented, and low-visibility payment operations.
Britain’s CFOs are waking up to a payments crisis hiding in plain sight. New research from global corporate payments company Corpay has exposed a striking contradiction at the heart of UK finance: the people responsible for managing billions in corporate spend know their processes are broken and they know rivals are already pulling ahead.
New crypto wallets, stablecoin integrations, major industry investments, tax evasion, crypto scams and endorsement scandals – all these and more can be found in this brief crypto news digest.
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