Tagged: payments

December 17, 2025 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An affiliate of Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE:CRCL), a global financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC through its regulated entities, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with LianLian Global, a licensed cross-border payments provider. The collab will explore opportunities in stablecoin-enabled payment infrastructure to… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 10:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Backbase’s 2026 Banking Predictions Report reveals how artificial intelligence, unified platforms, and invisible payments will shift from pilot projects to production-scale transformation across retail, commercial, wealth, and private banking. Drawing on feedback from executives at McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, EY, EverBank, Nedbank… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and Revolve Group, Inc. (NYSE: RVLV), the fashion retailer for Millennial and Generation Z consumers, announced an expansion of their partnership that makes it easier for shoppers in Canada and the… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments provider PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) is pursuing a Utah-chartered industrial loan company. The company has submitted its application to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. An industrial bank charter is a state-issued license, primarily in Utah, allowing a financial institution… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

TrueLayer, a European payments network that offers Pay by Bank payments, is reporting that its Chief Operating Officer, Rob Kerrigan, will be joining the newly formed UK Payments Initiative (UKPI). TrueLayer joins 30 other firms in the payments sector, including all major UK retail banks…. Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a financial platform for businesses, announced it will inject $590 million into its UK business across the next 5 years (2026 to 2030) to drive local and growth. The investment will be spent on a range of activities “including a hiring surge which will… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

The world’s most loved big tech firm, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), is under scrutiny by the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) for possible transgressions of Swiss competition laws. The Secretariat launched a preliminary investigation on December 10, 2025, to determine whether other mobile payment app providers can effectively… Read More

December 12, 2025 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MassPay, a global payout orchestration platform, and Plasma, a company building vertically integrated stablecoin-powered products and infrastructure, today announced an integration that enables MassPay customers to send USD₮ payouts on Plasma across more than 230 countries. The addition of USD₮ expands MassPay’s payout stack beyond… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Mollie has signed an agreement to acquire GoCardless, a UK-based bank payment company that offers solutions for businesses to collect recurring and one-off payments directly from customer bank accounts using direct debit and open banking. The terms of the deal were not revealed, but reports… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, a payments platform, says that it has secured a payments services license from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Zilch states that the licensing marks a key milestone for them, removing the reliance on third-parties and “enabling the business to build payments methods in-house, develop… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 7:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tempo, a payment-focused L1, is now supported by Blockaid to provide security across its network. By supporting the chain, Blockaid explains in a blog post that it helps create a “safer” environment for payment processors, stablecoin issuers, and other partners building on Tempo’s ecosystem. Blockaid… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Setu by Pine Labs has recently announced the launch of India’s agentic bill-payments experience, designed to address key challenges in bill payments: the fear of incorrect charges and the burden of missing important due dates. Although actually paying a bill takes minutes, keeping track of… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global enabler of business banking products, has recently announced that it acquired majority ownership of PT Skye Sab Indonesia, a PJP (Penyedia Jasa Pembayaran) Category 1 license holder. The acquisition allows Indonesian merchants aiming to expand overseas “to tap into Airwallex’s financial infrastructure.”… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 12:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, recently announced a channel partnership with Plaid, a data network that serves as the analytics layer for financial services. This collab will reportedly aim to deliver faster, and frictionless Pay by Bank experiences for businesses and… Read More

December 9, 2025 @ 11:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European enabler of payment services, announces the contemplated divestment of PaymentIQ, a payment orchestration platform, to Incore Invest for an estimated cash proceeds at closing of c.€160m. The intended disposal of PaymentIQ marks yet another step in Worldline’s so-called strategic refocus… Read More

December 8, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

InFlow, a payments system purpose-built for agentic commerce, has launched to help AI agents onboard and pay autonomously while enabling online businesses and digital platforms to seamlessly activate and monetize AI agents. Today, when an agent needs to access a paid service, it can’t complete… Read More

December 6, 2025 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE:V), a digital payments enabler, and Pismo announced a strategic collaboration with Circle Asia Technologies, a credit-led neobank in Southeast Asia, to unlock credit for Vietnam based clients. This will enable Circle to launch an AI-enabled PayLater card aiming to set standards for personalization,… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, launches the new feature Tap to Pay across 14 European markets, with the aim of bringing more flexible payments into physical retail at scale and “transforming the Klarna app into an everyday contactless wallet.” With… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Analysis of Bank of Ireland customer behavior during the third quarter (Q3) of 2025 shows that contactless payments rose again while ATM usage continues on a downward trend, compared to the same period in 2024. In Q3 2025, eCommerce contactless card transactions (digital wallets, Apple… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MRI Software, a global enabler of real estate solutions and services, has partnered with bank payment company GoCardless in order to launch MRI Payment Connector in the UK residential property market. The integration will enable property professionals and finance teams “to offer flexible payment options… Read More