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Meta Unveils WhatsApp Bill Pay to Tap into India’s Payments Boom
WhatsApp gained traction in India by providing a free messaging alternative to the relatively expensive SMS and voice services that...
Biometrics Are Here. Agentic Payments Aren’t—Yet.
Two much-discussed payment trends are at the forefront of the emerging payments ecosystem this year. Biometrics are becoming an everyday...
FedNow Aims to Ignite Expansion with Discounts for Banks
More than 1,700 financial institutions have joined FedNow—the U.S. Federal Reserve’s instant payments system—in the just over three years since...
Brazil’s Pix Explores Expansion to Europe
Brazil’s Pix is considering expanding into Europe, with Brazil’s central bank and the European Central Bank discussing a potential connection...
Anthropic’s Merchant Blueprint: A Key Step for Agentic Commerce
Anthropic has launched a blueprint to help retailers build AI shopping and merchant agents on Claude, with the goal of...
Block Unlocks Cash App Score Amid Alternative Credit Scoring Push
Consumers’ financial lives have become fragmented among multiple banks, fintechs, and platforms. At the same time, digitization has delivered more...
London Exchange Plans to Offer Tokenized Stocks
Tokenized stocks may be coming to the London Stock Exchange, as Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has announced plans...
BIS Leader Questions the Feasibility of Stablecoins at Scale
Stablecoins have garnered significant industry attention in recent years, but an official at the Bank for International Settlements has raised...
Tech Giants Call for Cybersecurity Consortium to Deal with AI Threats
After high-profile incidents in which artificial intelligence models have gone rogue, more than 100 organizations have signed a letter calling...
Less Friction, More Opportunity: The Future of Cross-Border Payments
For banks and financial institutions, the pressure is mounting. Customers operating across borders expect payments to be fast, predictable, transparent,...
Stripe, PayPal Move On After Purchase Talks Collapse
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have ended their $53 billion pursuit of PayPal. The proposed deal had been...
UK Weighs a Bank of England Mandate to Spur Digital Assets Innovations
The UK has been a front-runner in contactless and real-time payments adoption, but its central bank has faced criticism over...
