Managers of Wealth Fintech

Cashfree Payments enables UPI acceptance for merchants in 40 markets

Cashfree Payments is now enabling global businesses in eCcommerce, SaaS, travel, and digital goods seeking to access India’s fast-growing consumer base where payment localisation is directly tied to conversion.

Chinese SMEs expand into ASEAN through digital-first model

Consumer goods, digital solutions, and logistics are driving outbound expansion.

Backbase connects with Mastercard Move

This integration reduces implementation timelines significantly for joint customers, while enabling complete payment flow management from customer initiation through settlement and reconciliation.

Major banks launch on-chain money initiative for tokenised deposits

That structure has aimed to support automated workflows, richer transaction data and 24/7 settlement, while preserving the balance-sheet role that commercial banks continue to play in the movement of money.

Bank of America to launch cross-border real-time payments solution

The service is expected to go live next quarter and will be accessible via Swift or the bank's digital treasury platform, CashPro.

Payments Canada welcomes 15 new members

This membership growth reflects growing interest in Canadian payments, including potential participation in Payments Canada’s national payment infrastructure, as well as the recent legislative amendments to the Canadian Payments Act.

Lloyds prepares for agentic future with roll out of Microsoft 365 Frontier Suite

Th deal gives Lloyds the foundation to scale agentic AI safely across the bank and follows the roll-out of 40,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licences across the Group.

Banking Apps: Reimagined for Commerce

That scale alone positions the region's banking apps as significant players in the financial ecosystem.

ING completes live end-to-end European agentic payment transaction

From choosing the tickets to completing the payment, every step was carried out by the AI, running on infrastructure based entirely in Europe.

Apple Wallet to get bill-splitting tool

Users will be able to take photos of receipts, assign items to different people and generate payment requests.

Adyen appointed as payment services provider for the GOV.UK Pay

The appointment follows a competitive procurement process and will see approximately 1,000 public sector services - spanning local authorities, armed forces, and police - transition from Stripe to Adyen for their GOV.UK Pay processing.

DBS Is First Singapore Bank to Launch Tap-to-Phone Payments with Soft Space

The new feature allows merchants to accept card payments on Android phones without using a separate payment terminal.

TrueLayer adds split-payment capabilities with In3 acquisition

The UK open banking company is moving beyond pure debit by bringing deferred consumer financing onto direct bank rails.

PayPal launches its BNPL offer in Austria

The company is positioning the launch as a response to demand for flexible, transparent payment models in the market.

PingPong and Visa launch card-to-account B2B payment solution

The solution targets a long-standing friction point in corporate payments: the disconnect between card rails and supplier bank accounts.

RBC announces expansion of Vancouver banking and innovation hub

Supported by 1,000 high-quality jobs in B.C., the hub will help advance RBC's AI ambitions

Gr4vy and PlayHQ partner on payment orchestration for sports management

That operational scale places significant demands on the underlying payments infrastructure, particularly given the platform's cross-border footprint and the varied payment environments across its four markets.

Whop issues stablecoin debit card

Whop Cards operate on the Visa network and are accepted at more than 150 million merchant locations worldwide.

£500m retrofit boost for UK universities as Lloyds partners with National Wealth Fund

Through the agreement, Lloyds Banking Group will provide up to £500 million of lending to UK universities, enabled by up to £350 million of financial guarantees provided by the National Wealth Fund, which will help modernise up to 300 campus b

Mastercard secures New York BitLicense

New York’s BitLicense framework establishes comprehensive requirements related to consumer protection, cybersecurity, financial integrity and operational resilience.

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