Payments

BNY has expanded its Digital Asset Custody platform in Europe, becoming one of the first global systemically important banks to offer regulated digital asset...

Bringing digital assets further into the financial mainstream will require payment providers, insurers, brokers and regulators to understand how their respective roles fit together...

Fipto, a stablecoin-powered B2B payments and treasury platform, has partnered with Spiko to let corporate clients invest idle balances in regulated UCITS funds. Clients can...

Finastra has launched an AI-powered payments repair tool designed to reduce errors and speed processing.It comes as banks face rising payment volumes and growing...

Binance has made a $100 million strategic investment in Circle and extended its commercial partnership with the USDC issuer for a further five years. The...

UBS and Mizuho have executed bilateral test transactions on Swift’s blockchain‑based shared ledger, completing trials designed to validate operational processes for cross‑border payments using...

The European Central Bank has launched a new phase of its digital euro innovation programme, inviting payment providers, fintechs, merchants, technology firms and public...

New research from IDC has found that more than three-quarters of UK businesses see strategic value in embedded payments, as software and financial services...

Citi has executed live USD transactions on Swift’s shared ledger, becoming the first US bank to process native payments on the infrastructure as part...

HSBC and Standard Chartered have executed the first live cross‑border bank‑to‑bank transaction using tokenised deposits on Swift’s blockchain‑based ledger. The banks described it as...

Kraken has launched its Krak Card in the United States, giving customers the ability to spend from more than 600 assets while earning up...

Polygon Labs has joined Nobo Finance and Dun & Bradstreet in the second phase of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab, exploring how...

Thunes has expanded its stablecoin liquidity management capabilities with the launch of EURC prefunding across its Direct Global Network. The integration of Circle’s MiCA-compliant, euro-backed...

Western Union has launched Stablecard, a digital wallet and USDPT-backed Visa secured credit card designed to help consumers hold, transfer and spend US dollar...

Insurance payments platform Diesta has integrated Kinexys by J.P. Morgan’s payee verification technology to help insurers, brokers and managing general agents (MGAs) reduce payment risks and improve digital settlement processes. The...

Three leading US digital asset industry bodies have called on the US Senate to bring the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act to the Senate floor, arguing that the...