The Payments Association

MARCH 19, 2025

Digital wallets are expanding faster than financial oversight can keep up, forcing governments to scramble for new safeguards without choking innovation. The European PSD2 framework, growing pressure on big techs financial ambitions, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) discussions all indicate a looming regulatory crackdown.

Digital Payments

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In rapid, seven-minute slots, companies showcased solutions spanning AI-powered cybersecurity, digital banking transformation, embedded finance and next-generation authentication. This years Best of Show winners included: Keyless A biometric authentication platform eliminating passwords and multi-factor authentication.

Embedded Finance

The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2025

This marks a notable improvement over the standard multi-day processing period commonly seen in real estate investment withdrawals. The launch aligns with broader trends in the MENA region, where digital finance adoption has accelerated rapidly.

CBDC

The Paypers

JUNE 19, 2025

WollettePay is positioned as a response to longstanding limitations in current Open Banking solutions, many of which require multi-step processes and do not consistently deliver on speed or user experience. The platform is scheduled for release in the UK in the fourth quarter of 2025, with a wider European rollout expected in early 2026.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

Across the EU, operational resilience, real-time payments, and the steady rollout of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) are redefining compliance baselines for digital finance. Globally, preparations for central bank digital currencies and evolving open finance frameworks signal longer-term structural change.

Regulations

The Paypers

JUNE 18, 2025

The process of designing a multi-polar international monetary system is expected to help strengthen policy constraints on sovereign currency countries, improve the resilience of the system, and optimise safeguards for global financial stability.

Multi-Currency

The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

Mastercard and Fiserv aim to connect digital asset platforms Mastercard’s work with Fiserv includes linking the latter’s Digital Asset Platform, which supports bank-issued stablecoins, with the Mastercard Multi-Token Network. This poses a potential challenge to existing card-based revenue models.

Stablecoins

The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have a lot of potential to uproot the cross-border payments market. RAKBANK has successfully exchanged a remittance using China’s digital Yuan (eCNY) in exchange for the Digital Dirham, the UAE’s CBDC.

CBDC

Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Swift, the global financial messaging network, is actively working to incorporate regulated digital assets and currencies onto its platform. Building on a series of successful experiments, Swift is advancing efforts to create practical solutions that will enable its members to transact seamlessly with digital assets.

SWIFT

The Fintech Times

MAY 26, 2024

In recent years, digital currencies have been all the rave. However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. Developed and emerging markets alike are considering the possibility of introducing CBDCs.

CBDC

Fintech Finance

MAY 23, 2024

Reltime , a leading innovator in blockchain and Web3 technology, is thrilled to announce the launch of its state-of-the-art Global Payment Gateway (GW), designed to empower merchants and shops worldwide to accept payments from all popular digital currencies. Digital USD/EUR, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.

Digital Currency

Fintech News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Efforts were also made to advance digital assets, tokenization and central bank digital currency (CBDC) experimentation with initiatives such as Project Guardian and Project Orchid expanding to include more use cases and moving towards “live” pilots.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

JUNE 6, 2024

This project aims to create a multi-central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform for instant cross-border payments and settlements, leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT). The platform now invites further international participation and private sector proposals for value-added solutions.

Participant

Fintech News

AUGUST 13, 2024

The region is leading the way with initiatives such as real-time cross-border payment linkages and the exploration of multi-central bank digital currency (CBDC) settlements.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

operates Max Miles, Singapore’s newest multi-merchant loyalty programme. The solution provides comprehensive analysis, including multi-asset portfolio construction, dynamic constraints optimisation, performance simulation, and real-time risk alerts. Heymax.AI (Singapore) Heymax.ai

FinTech

Wharton Fintech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We have been working with governments on what is called central bank digital currency, or CBDC. I think that is another great example where we do over 150 currencies on the network today. So, we have prototyped things like “how do you settle in a stablecoin versus a traditional fiat currency”.

Visa

The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2025

Combined with Alpaca’s regulatory licensing and infrastructure, the partnership is set to deliver a frictionless, secure, and full-service solution for multi-asset trading that enables clients to integrate equities and crypto into their apps with minimal engineering effort.

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Bank Indonesia has announced the successful completion of the Proof of Concept (PoC) for the wholesale Rupiah Digital under its Garuda Project. This marks a critical milestone in the exploration of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

CBDC

The Fintech Times

MARCH 2, 2025

The BoMs announcement of a pilot rollout for a Digital Rupee, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), marks a significant milestone in Mauritiuss digital evolution.

Economy

The Payments Association

APRIL 14, 2025

Firms that support currency exchange as part of their payment services to consumers or microenterprises should review their customer disclosures in light of Consumer Duty requirements. T+1 also raises challenges around funding and liquidity management, especially for cross-border trades involving time zone differences or currency conversions.

Regulations