India Is Digitising Payments Without Abandoning Cash
India’s payments transformation is creating an unusual financial landscape in which digital transactions are expanding at extraordinary speed while physical…
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Tokenisation May Be Coming to Banking Without Customers Ever Seeing It
The banking industry’s experiments with tokenised money are beginning to move beyond the question of whether blockchain can process a…
AI Could Turn Every Payment Into a Competitive Market
Much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and payments has focused on what happens when AI agents are allowed to…
Eurosystem Launches Pontes to Bring Central Bank Money Into Tokenised Finance
Europe’s transition towards tokenised financial markets is moving beyond experimentation and into infrastructure. The launch of Pontes gives banks and…
Bank Pekao Taps NCR Atleos to Modernize Card Payments Infrastructure
As banks invest heavily in new digital payment experiences, the infrastructure processing those transactions is also being forced to evolve.…
The Most Valuable Place in Payments May No Longer Be the Wallet
The battle to control payments may be moving to a place consumers never see. As AI agents begin searching, comparing…
Stablecoins May Not Be Banks’ Biggest Digital-Money Threat After All
Stablecoins have become the obvious digital-money threat for banks because they appear to challenge one of banking’s most valuable assets:…
Thunes Expands Cross-Border Payout Network Across Six Middle East Markets
Cross-border payment infrastructure in the Middle East is becoming increasingly important as banks, fintechs and payment providers look for faster…
World Bank Initiative Targets $280 Billion Expansion in Emerging-Market Digital Payments
Access to digital payments is expanding rapidly across emerging economies, but the institutions closest to underserved consumers and small businesses…
Visa Pushes Onchain Credit Beyond Crypto With New Settlement Financing Model
Visa is taking another step towards connecting blockchain-based finance with mainstream payments, introducing an onchain credit model that uses VisaNet…