Billtrust launched Agentic Credit Lines, an AI-powered product that integrates into credit review workflows to analyze payment history and utilization patterns for identifying paym...
Regulators in Europe, the UK, and US are transitioning from high-level AI principles to operational testing and implementation of AI guardrails in financial services. The focus is ...
Embedded finance has become a standard capability across all FinTech firms, with every surveyed company offering at least one embedded finance feature. As payments, lending, and fi...
Smartstream released a paper showing that 67% of errors in asset servicing are caused by data quality issues. The company advocates for a comprehensive operating model transformati...
Danish fintech Aryze has partnered with Muinmos to enhance its compliance capabilities as it expands globally. The partnership focuses on leveraging Muinmos' automated KYC (Know Yo...
Latvia has introduced a new specialized credit institution license requiring only €1M in capital, allowing fintech companies to accept deposits and operate across the EU. This regu...
BEA International Bank, a French subsidiary of Banque Extérieure d'Algérie, has successfully implemented Temenos Core Banking and Financial Crime Mitigation solutions as a SaaS dep...
The OCC finalized new rules revising licensing requirements for community banks and eliminated a fair housing compliance monitoring system as part of efforts to reduce regulatory b...
MSCI Inc. has appointed Dinesh Gupta as Chief Data Officer and Global Head of Operations, bringing his AI and digitization experience from Goldman Sachs. The appointment signals MS...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued final rules rescinding its Fair Housing Home Loan Data System regulation and simplifying licensing requirements for commu...
Insurtech Insights Europe 2026, Europe's largest insurance technology conference, will take place March 18-19, 2026 in London with over 6,500 industry leaders expected to attend. T...
Fourthline, a digital identity verification provider for financial services, has appointed Paul Stoddart as its new CEO during what the company describes as a pivotal growth phase....
Banco Santander and Mastercard successfully completed Europe's first live end-to-end payment executed entirely by an AI agent. This milestone demonstrates the advancing capabilitie...
10x Banking has partnered with Validata to enhance digital banking data migration using AI technology. The partnership aims to help banks accelerate innovation, improve implementat...
TD Bank is targeting $150 million in cost reductions through AI implementation, with CEO Raymond Chun emphasizing a 'build once and use many times' approach to their AI strategy. T...
10x Banking has formed a strategic partnership with Validata, a software company specializing in continuous quality engineering and automation for banks and financial services. The...
Affirm and Stripe are expanding their partnership to support shared payment tokens that enable AI agents to make purchases on behalf of shoppers using buy-now-pay-later options. Th...
Stripe launched a new billing feature that helps AI startups automatically charge customers with markup percentages on AI model token usage costs. The feature tracks API prices acr...
PayPay, Japan's leading mobile payment app backed by SoftBank, has postponed its U.S. IPO that aimed for a $10 billion valuation due to market volatility and Middle East conflicts....
The article explores how banks are preparing for the future integration of digital assets, particularly stablecoins and tokenized deposits. It examines strategic planning approache...
Capgemini has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to accelerate enterprise AI transformation through their Frontier initiative. The collaboration aims to leverage OpenAI'...
Mongol iD, Mongolia's largest payment infrastructure company, has joined RTGS.global's liquidity network as a Funds Controller for Mongolian Tögrög and Kyrgyzstani Som currencies. ...
Thales discusses how digital wallets have become ubiquitous in modern payments, with users commonly tapping phones for transit and coffee purchases. The company highlights that ben...
Traditional lenders are undergoing an infrastructure reset as legacy systems are being replaced by unified platforms designed for rapid innovation. This shift is driven by accelera...
Consumer credit is evolving toward more flexible, personalized repayment options including installment plans and hybrid models, creating growth opportunities for issuers. However, ...
Ripple announced a major expansion of Ripple Payments, its blockchain-based solution for moving money across traditional and digital financial rails. The expansion represents signi...
FinovateSpring 2026 conference in San Diego (May 5-7) has locked in 80% of its demo lineup, with over 50 fintech and financial services companies set to present. Early registration...
Ripple Payments has expanded its platform to support both fiat and stablecoin transactions, allowing customers to collect, hold, exchange, and payout funds across currencies. The p...
A Federal Reserve Bank of New York paper titled 'Stablecoin Disintermediation' examines how banks holding stablecoin deposits are reducing their lending activities. The research ex...
Revolut launched its first ultra-premium corporate card called Titan in the UK, specifically designed for business travel expenses. The card aims to solve visibility issues that bu...
Visa is expanding its partnership with Stripe-owned Bridge to bring stablecoin-backed Visa cards to over 100 countries. The collaboration extends their global card issuance product...
SoFi Technologies is partnering with Mastercard to enable its USD-pegged stablecoin SoFiUSD as a settlement option across Mastercard's global payments network. The enhanced partner...
The article explores whether major banks like JPMorgan Chase and Capital One might consider acquiring PayPal. The key factor would be these banks' ability to effectively monetize P...
Payment processor Shift4 announced a partnership with Elon Musk's xAI company to implement artificial intelligence for customer service functions. The collaboration represents anot...
Digital wallets from Apple and Google are expanding beyond basic payment functionality to become broader commerce platforms. Software startup Badge is working to help brands increa...
Real-time payment networks FedNow and RTP processed trillions of dollars last year and recently increased transaction limits to $10 million, expanding enterprise use cases. This gr...
TransferGo has received an expanded Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence from the Bank of Lithuania, allowing the company to issue payment cards across the EU. This regulator...
The article explores whether major banks like JPMorgan Chase and Capital One might consider acquiring PayPal. The key factor would be these banks' ability to effectively monetize P...
Raiz Federal Credit Union, a $1 billion institution serving 78,000 members in El Paso, Texas, has partnered with Alacriti to implement Orbipay Loan Payments system. This modernizat...
Bloomberg launched customizable real-time news feeds for systematic trading teams, featuring machine-readable content with AI-powered sentiment analysis and metadata tagging. The s...
Ripple is expanding its Ripple Payments platform to create a comprehensive, end-to-end digital payments infrastructure that consolidates the payments stack. The platform aims to sp...
Google announced that its Gemini AI will soon include agentic features allowing it to handle tasks like ordering groceries and booking rides autonomously. This development in AI ag...
PayPal and TCS Blockchain have partnered to enable carriers to use digital assets on blockchain rails for settling freight invoices. The solution aims to provide faster and cheaper...
The article examines how stablecoins are facilitating payments in the Philippines' growing gig economy, where nearly a quarter of employed workers participate. This payment innovat...
Capital One has begun migrating some of its core credit cards (Savor, Quicksilver, and VentureOne) to the Discover network as part of its integration strategy following the acquisi...
Zūm Rails has partnered with Fiserv to become a payments facilitator in the US and Canada. This partnership allows businesses to accept card payments and integrate customized check...
Ameris Bank is promoting faster invoice processing solutions to CFOs, emphasizing how accelerated payment workflows can improve cash flow and working capital management. The bank h...
SUNRATE, a global payment and treasury management platform, announced a strategic partnership with Repayd, a travel merchant account provider, at ITB Berlin 2026. The partnership a...
Japanese fintech company PayPay plans to raise up to $1.1 billion in what would be the largest IPO by a Japanese company on a US stock exchange. The company is working with SoftBan...
AccessPay has partnered with PayPoint to integrate Confirmation of Payee (CoP) fraud prevention technology into AccessPay's payments automation suite. This integration aims to stre...
Retailers are experiencing a surge in sophisticated return fraud where customers use AI-generated images to falsely claim products were damaged or incorrect, prompting widespread i...
PYMNTS launched a new Consumer Expectations Index that combines confidence with capacity, incorporating balance-sheet resilience and labor market security. The report aims to addre...