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Contactless Payments Gain Ground on Big-Ticket Purchases
Contactless payments are making inroads into higher-value purchases in Ireland, with more consumers tapping their cards or phones for transactions...
Superbank Turns to AI to Expand Credit Assessments
Traditional credit scores don’t always tell the full story of a borrower’s financial health. Consumers who manage their money responsibly...
The Synthetic Economy: When Fraudsters Don’t Steal Identities—They Build Better Ones
Fraud is no longer about impersonation—it’s about creation. Synthetic identities are evolving into fully formed digital personas with histories, behaviors,...
Mastercard Plans to Keep Its European Network Running, Even Offline
After a major blackout disrupted payment services across Spain and Portugal in 2025, affecting more than 50 million payment outlets,...
Africa’s Ecobank Agrees to Join China’s Cross-Border Payments System
As businesses in Africa look to expand in China, cross-border payments can present a barrier to entry. Many transactions rely...
Samsung Adds Stablecoin Transfers for Cross-Border Remittances
For expatriates, sending money to friends and family back home is often not as simple as a few clicks in...
Wise Links to Domestic Systems for Cross-Border QR Payments
A visitor to Brazil may want to sample food sold by local street vendors, but they may not be able...
CTFC Proposes Retail Crypto Trading Regulations
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants to give retail investors access to leveraged crypto trading under a new federal market...
Visa Finds APAC Consumers Poised to Increase Stablecoin Use
The moment when stablecoins become a mainstream consumer payment method has not quite arrived, but a Visa study found that...
Mobile Banking Has the Tools. Now Banks Need to Guide Customers
A customer views their transaction history in their mobile banking app and sees a payment made to a merchant whose...
Robinhood’s Agentic Trading Aims to Thread the Needle with Investors
Robinhood’s agentic trading accounts could give individual investors tool that resemble those used by sophisticated hedge funds, allowing them to...
Merchants Want More Than Payments from Their POS System
Point-of-sale (POS) solutions are moving beyond the checkout, bringing together capabilities that range from inventory management to reconciliation. That expansion...
