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Acquirers and PSPs and the 2025 consumer: Designing for diverse payment preferences

The Payments Association

Acquirers and PSPs and the 2025 consumer: Designing for diverse payment preferences 4 July 2025 by Payments Intelligence The 2025 Consumer Behaviour Report from The Payments Association delivers an urgent message to the acquiring and PSP community: the UK payments landscape is diversifying faster than many platforms are adapting.

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

The Payments Association

Tokenisation is now a core enabler of secure, interoperable digital paymentspowering embedded finance, asset tokenisation, and evolving identity flows. Once a system for masking sensitive data, tokenisation has evolved into a foundational technology for enabling secure, interoperable, and scalable digital payments.

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U.S. Faster Payments Council Shares Results from 2025 Faster Payments Barometer

Fintech Finance

The results reflect growing adoption of the FedNow Service and RTP Network and an expanding array of use cases in both consumer and business contexts. However, challenges such as interoperability and fraud must be addressed to fully unlock the potential of faster payments.

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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

Early deployments across Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe reveal how people are using CBDCs, how merchants are responding, and what this means for cross-border payments in an increasingly interconnected world. Beyond technical proof points, these initiatives underscore the need for global interoperability.

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EPI signs ‘landmark’ agreement with European domestic payments brands for cross-border in-store mobile payments

NFCW

The new agreement between EPI and EuroPA “aims at enabling European citizens to send and receive payments seamlessly across the continent, for the benefit of both consumers and merchants,” the partners say.

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Tackling Fraud and Compliance Burdens: CFIT Publishes Digital Company ID Blueprint

The Fintech Times

Promote standards for interoperability : CFIT should work with industry to establish standards that ensure interoperability, accountability and secure adoption of Digital Company ID. The blueprint highlights the role technology plays in protecting the financial system and customers, whilst supporting UK economic growth.

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Why staying put is no longer the safe option for payments innovation

The Payments Association

By addressing focused use cases, banks can reduce risk, improve ROI, and incrementally build toward a fully modernised, scalable banking, cards, loans and payments infrastructure. Customer expectations have changed: Businesses and consumers now demand frictionless, real-time transactions, which legacy systems struggle to support.