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Beyond the Card: Your Checklist for Future-Proof Card Issuing

Fintech News

After acing that deadline, the bank expanded to serve fintechs and other banks across the region, enabling instant digital issuing, winning industry recognition for fintech innovation, and announcing plans to build a mobile wallet marketplace by leveraging its new payments infrastructure. That makes uptime a business imperative.

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Is 2025 Finally the Year for Open Finance in Southeast Asia?

Fintech News

Southeast Asia is on the brink of a rapid expansion in open banking, with financial institutions leveraging open banking to enhance customer experiences, and fintech companies utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs) to revolutionising payments, lending, and more.

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The Journey of Payments and Clearing Systems in India

Finextra

These banks introduced formal ledger-based accounting and cheque payments. Cheque System: The cheque emerged as a formal payment instrument, requiring physical movement and manual clearing processes. This was a significant step towards non-cash payments but was slow and prone to errors.

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Offline settlements with a digital pound: Lessons from the BoE’s report

The Payments Association

Offline settlements with a digital pound: Lessons from the BoE’s report 16 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? A Bank of England experiment proving that offline payments with a digital pound are technically feasible, but complex. Why is it important? What’s next?

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ESG-Linked Payments in Transaction Banking

Finextra

Companies published sustainability reports to satisfy investors and regulators, but these reports stayed in annual documents and never touched daily payment systems. Banks and Fintechs now add sustainability scores to every payment. ESG reporting started as a voluntary effort. Anticipated Future of ESG-linked Instruments 1.

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Strategic agreement between EPI and EuroPA: building a unified European digital payments network

Finextra

EuroPA is an alliance of national digital payment champions – 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁(Italy), 𝗕𝗶𝘇𝘂𝗺 (Spain), 𝗠𝗕 𝗪𝗔𝗬 (Portugal), 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝗸 (Poland), 𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗦 (Greece), and 𝗩𝗶𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗣𝗮𝘆 (Nordics). Wero enables instant, account-to-account (A2A) payments without relying on traditional card networks.

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Zūm Rails partners with Western Union Canada

The Paypers

In addition, the process of integrating Zūm Rails APIs into Western Union’s network is set to enable the company to drive real-time movement of funds for Western Union customers using Interac eTransfer. Free Headlines in your E-mail Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.