Tue.Apr 29, 2025

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Fintech Platforms in Vietnam Lose Momentum to Bank Apps

Fintech News

In Vietnam, bank-owned apps are rapidly gaining popularity across all generations, outpacing independent fintech platforms like MoMo and ZaloPay, which are seeing a decline in usage and preference, according to a new report by Decision Lab, a Vietnamese market research firm. This shift indicates that banks are rising to the challenge, actively enhancing their digital capabilities to better meet evolving customer expectations.

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How Focus and Trust Are Changing Digital Payments: Interview with Andrew Jamison

Fintech Weekly

Andrew Jamison, CEO of Extend, shares insights on how focus, trust, and customer understanding drive better digital payment solutions in fintech. Read the full interview.

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Mastercard Launches ‘Agent Pay’ for AI-Led Commerce

Fintech News

Mastercard has launched Agent Pay, a new program designed to integrate payments into AI-driven commerce experiences. The initiative aims to enable secure, seamless transactions through generative AI agents across consumer and business platforms. The company said Agent Pay introduces “agentic tokens,” which expand on its existing tokenisation technology used in contactless payments, card-on-file solutions, and digital credentials like Mastercard Payment Passkeys.

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Toast, Clover fight for restaurant customers

Payments Dive

The fledgling fintechs have gobbled up a significant share of the U.S. restaurant point-of-sale market, but they’ll increasingly be battling industry heavyweights.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Backbase Launches AI-Powered Banking Platform

Fintech News

Backbase , a digital banking software provider, has launched its AI-powered Banking Platform, following the introduction of its Intelligence Fabric in September 2024. The platform is designed to embed AI into core banking operations by unifying customer service and digital salestwo areas Backbase calls mission-critical for growth and efficiency. It uses the Intelligence Fabric, a unified data foundation that converts behavioural, transactional, and operational data into real-time, actionable ins

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Sending Money Through Humo and Uzcard: Paysend Extends Cross-Border Payment Facilities in Uzbekistan

The Fintech Times

Banks, digital wallets and remittance businesses will now have an easier time sending money to Uzbekistan as Paysend , the digital payment network extends its cross-border payment facilities. While previously Paysend supported Visa and Mastercard payments in the region, this new milestone will now enable it to make instant payouts directly to Uzbekistans local card schemes, Humo and Uzcard.

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Paze aims to pump up the volume with Fiserv

Payments Dive

The digital wallet owned by seven banks has loaded 150 million customer cards onto the system. Now, it’s working with its processor ally to add more banks.

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Banking as a consciousness

The Payments Association

In 1870, Jules Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , a tale of an underwater boat, the Nautilus, slicing through the deep oceans on a power no one could understand. It was pure science fiction at the time, a dream of a machine that didnt need wind or coal. Today, nuclear-powered submarines power beneath the waves, quiet and real, as Verne once imagined.

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Making Dollars and Cents of Network Tokens

Basis Theory

Network tokens are widely discussed for merchant payments, and bring significant valuefor merchants of a certain scale. Read for the details!

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SMEB bolsters leadership team with the appointment of Anthony Jarman as sales director

The Payments Association

SMEB, a London-based payments company and financial service provider focused on empowering businesses, announced a key addition to its leadership team with the appointment of Anthony Jarman as sales director. Based in London, Anthony brings over 20 years of specialised experience in B2B technology sales within the payments industry. In this role, he will be responsible for driving strategic growth and expanding clients relationships, drawing upon his deep expertise in business development, sales

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Mastercard invests $300m in Corpay cross-border business

Finextra

Mastercard is paying $300 million for a three per cent stake in the cross-border business of corporate payments outfit Corpay.

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Alfardan Exchange Partners With iPiD to Launch Qatar’s First Real-Time Payee Verification Service

Fintech Finance

Alfardan Exchange , the trusted and leading name in the field of exchange, financial transfers and precious metals in Qatar, has partnered with iPiD to launch the first real-time beneficiary validation solution in the exchange industry in Qatar. By integrating iPiD Validate, Alfardan Exchange is pioneering a new era of secure, transparent, and fraud-resistant cross-border transfers—setting a new standard for Qatar’s exchange industry. iPiD Validate: Instantly Confirm Payee Details Th

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UK unveils draft crypto laws

Finextra

The UK government has published draft legislation that will bring crypto firms into the regulatory perimeter.

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Practical Ways to Overcome the Challenges of Launching Fintech Products

Fintech Weekly

Discover practical strategies to overcome regulatory, operational, and customer experience challenges when launching fintech products. Learn how strong partnerships, RegTech, and proactive risk management drive success.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Mastercard and PayPal make agentic commerce plays

Finextra

Mastercard has unveiled Agent Pay, its new agentic payments technology to power commerce in the age of AI. Separately, PayPal has made its own agentic commerce play, with new tools for developers.

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Copper partners with Circle

The Paypers

Copper , a provider of digital asset services, has partnered with Circle , a global financial technology company, to bring expanded USDC functionality to institutional clients.

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Malaysia activates national blockchain infrastructure

Finextra

Malaysia today marked a pivotal milestone in its digital transformation journey with the operational launch of the Malaysia Blockchain Infrastructure (MBI).

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Paysend unlocks instant payments to Uzbeckistan's Uzcard and Humo

The Paypers

Paysend has expanded its global cross-border payments infrastructure with the launch of instant payouts to local card schemes Uzcard and Humo in Uzbekistan.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Nacha: 80% of banks would reject clients if they processed cryptocurrency

Finextra

Smarter Faster Payments in New Orleans saw representatives from the Federal Reserve Bank, Citizens, EPCOR and Nacha come together to share their personal views on the potential of blockchain for cross-border transactions and financial inclusion - amid a need for better understanding of digital assets, as well as concerns around anonymity and regulatory uncertainty.

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Citibank suffers outage

Bank Automation

Citibank reportedly suffered from an online outage earlier today. The $1.6 trillion Citibank, used by nearly 200 million customers, had issues with its clients unable to access their online and mobile banking apps, according to theDowndetector website, which publishes the status of outages in real time. A limited subset of credit card users were briefly […] The post Citibank suffers outage appeared first on Bank Automation News.

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Banking’s safest job? AI roles jump 13% amid layoffs

Finextra

The worlds biggest banks increased their artificial intelligence headcount by 13% over the last six months, with one in every 50 banking employee now working in an AI-specific role, according to a study.

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Radar now protects ACH and SEPA payments

Stripe

Over the last year weve seen a 40% increase in the share of noncard payment volume on Stripe. To help you adapt your fraud prevention strategy to this changing set of payment method preferences, were extending Radars fraud protection to cover ACH and SEPA payments.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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JPMorgan CISO: SaaS model enabling cyber attacks

Finextra

The chief information security officer at JPMorgan Chase is calling on third party software providers to prioritise security over speed to market, warning that the shift to a SaaS delivery model is creating "substantial vulnerability".

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Banked, Chemist Warehouse, and ShopBack Launch Australia’s first In-Store Pay by Bank with Rewards program

Fintech Finance

Banked , the leading global Pay by Bank provider, has partnered with Australia’s top retail pharmacy group Chemist Warehouse , and leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform ShopBack , to launch the country’s first in-store Pay by Bank experience that also allows consumers to earn Cashback and rewards. The new initiative addresses the growing concern of rising card surcharges — highlighted by recent RBA data showing a 33.3 per cent increase in eftpos debit fees in the las

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UK Post Office and banks ink new cash access deal

Finextra

The UK's Post Office has signed a five-year partnership agreement with the country's banks and building societies to provide millions of people and small business with access to cash.

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How Much Is an FFL Transfer Fee?

My Payment Savvy

Have you been looking for the perfect gun and finally found someone who is able to sell it to you? Congratulations, but unfortunately, transferring gun ownership is not as easy as simply completing the transaction, especially if the person is not from your state or is selling their firearm online. An FFL transfer is required, and with that comes a fee.

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7 Essential Criteria for Choosing the Right Payments Partner

Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.

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BNP Paribas aims for improved resilience with new IBM Cloud deal

Finextra

BNP Paribas is to dedicate a new area in its data centres for IBM Cloud services as part of an effort to strengthen resilience and meet new laws under the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (Dora).

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How to Avoid Paypal Fees?

My Payment Savvy

PayPal is one of the most common modern ways of sending money between two parties, whether its between friends, family members, or entities with a customer-merchant relationship. While the app itself is free, and you wont be charged anything for signing up, using it might be associated with fees depending on what kind of transaction youre completing.

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Atom Bank to deploy AI decisioning platform from Provenir

Finextra

Atom Bank is to deploy an AI decisioning platform from Provenir to support multiple consumer and business banking products.

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RTP and FedNow limit increases surge in instant payments

The Paypers

Findings from RedCompass Labs have indicated that the increasing transaction limits of RTP and FedNow are making instant payments more appealing to banks in the US.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt