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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.

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Nexus Empowers APAC Financial Institutions to Achieve G20 Cross-Border Payment Targets

Fintech News

As the global demand for faster, more affordable, and increasingly transparent cross-border payments intensifies, Project Nexus is emerging as a foundational initiative to meet the G20’s ambitious roadmap. Eli Shoshani Eli Shoshani is Head of APAC at Bottomline , a leader in global business payments with extensive expertise in the region.

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Telr Has Been Granted the Retail Payment Services License from the Central Bank of the UAE

Fintech Finance

Telr , an award-winning leader in digital payments across MENA, has secured a Retail Payment Services License (RPS) by the Central Bank of the UAE, marking a transformative milestone in its mission to drive financial innovation and seamless digital transactions.

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Tokenisation 2.0: Are we ready for the next generation of payment security?

The Payments Association

Once a system for masking sensitive data, tokenisation has evolved into a foundational technology for enabling secure, interoperable, and scalable digital payments. However, with its growing role comes increasing complexity, particularly in terms of integration, regulation, and the architecture of future payment flows.

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The Journey of Payments and Clearing Systems in India

Finextra

Presidency Banks: The Bank of Bengal (1806), Bank of Bombay (1840), and Bank of Madras (1843) were established, later merging to form the Imperial Bank of India (1921), which eventually became the State Bank of India. These banks introduced formal ledger-based accounting and cheque payments.

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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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ACI Worldwide Debuts ‘ACI Connetic’ to Support Unified Payments

Fintech News

ACI Worldwide has unveiled ACI Connetic , a new cloud-native platform designed to streamline payment processing for banks and financial institutions. ACI Connetic combines account-to-account transactions, card payments, and AI-powered fraud prevention into a single platform.