July 7, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR) has announced a new partnership with financial wellbeing specialist Money Wellness. Launched recently this month, the collaboration gives Klarna customers straightforward access to a complimentary financial assessment known as the Money MOT. The service provides users with a clear, individualized snapshot of their… Read More

 Tagged bnpl, flexible payments, klarna, money wellness, uk

July 7, 2026 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN) has released more than a dozen of its internal AI initiatives on GitHub under a permissive open-source license. The move, led by the bank’s AI Lab, makes specialized tools freely available to developers, researchers, and professionals worldwide, with the explicit goal… Read More

 Tagged ai, europe, open source, santander

July 7, 2026 @ 6:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has announced that its mandatory reimbursement rules for authorised push payment (APP) fraud are producing clear overall benefits for consumers and the wider payments sector. Authorized push payment scams occur when individuals are tricked into authorizing transfers directly… Read More

 Tagged fraud, payment systems regulator, psr, scams, uk, united kingdom

July 6, 2026 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Xiaomi, the consumer electronics and smart manufacturing company, has chosen Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) to handle payment processing for its consumer electronics division in 18 markets worldwide. The partnership gives Xiaomi a single integration point to manage both online and physical store transactions efficiently as it… Read More

 Tagged adyen, infrastructure, payments, xiaomi

July 6, 2026 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based fintech Thought Machine has crossed a key financial threshold, with total revenue for the financial year ending December 2025 exceeding $100 million. The achievement was formally confirmed by the filing of the company’s latest audited accounts with the UK registrar. This performance reflects steady… Read More

 Tagged digital banking, london, thought machine, uk

July 6, 2026 @ 5:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new report from Onbe and NRG illustrates how consumer preferences for how they receive corporate payouts have changed in the digital age. 2026 Payouts Landscape: How mobile-first behavior is rewiring consumer expectations for corporate payouts is available here. Roughly 89% of consumers prefer digital… Read More

 Tagged ach, cash app, onbe, paper check, payments, paypal, venmo

July 5, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Security firm Microblink’s report Mapping the Rise of AI-Powered Identity Fraud describes how AI’s widespread availability and ease of use have changed how criminals commit fraud, and how security companies stop them. AI has erased human limitations. It is now easy to operate across multiple… Read More

 Tagged ai, fraud, fraud detection, Microblink, synthetic identities

July 4, 2026 @ 2:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Digital minds were focused on acronyms – AI, MiCA, BTC and OUSD. AI “Everyone is focused on whether OpenAI or Anthropic reaches the public markets first, but that assumes the future of AI will be decided by model providers. Whether that’s the right assumption… Read More

 Tagged BTCNow, confirmo, crypto council for innovation, devere group, io.net, mica, michael saylor, Myndlab, openai, OUSD, stablecoins, trace finance, Transform Ventures, Verda Ventures

July 4, 2026 @ 5:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Select fintech product releases this week from Ondo Finance, Lantern, Bluprynt and Klaviyo. Ondo Finance, Broadridge Financial Solutions launch third-party tokenized securities solution It’s a live solution of third-party tokenized U.S. securities operating entirely within the existing regulatory perimeter in the U.S. to provide full… Read More

 Tagged agentic comemrce, bluprynt, Chainproof, klaviyo, lantern, trading technologies

July 3, 2026 @ 12:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Executive Board, addressed the Generali Executive Series on the accelerating digital transformation of money, payments, and finance. His remarks highlighted how technological shifts are reshaping the payments landscape and outlined the Eurosystem’s strategic response to… Read More

 Tagged digital transformation, ecb, EU, european central bank