NFCW

JUNE 26, 2025

The two parties to the deal are EPI , the European Payments Initiative, and the European Payments Alliance (EuroPA). The two parties to the deal are EPI , the European Payments Initiative, and the European Payments Alliance (EuroPA).

Cross-Border

Finextra

JULY 14, 2025

For banks, fintech startups, and individual users, these apps deliver efficiency and flexibility, reshaping how we interact with our finances. This article highlights seven standout features that are redefining banking, tailored for Finextra’s audience of financial professionals, innovators, and tech enthusiasts.

Mobile Banking

Fintech Review

APRIL 17, 2025

Banking has entered a new era. To bank digital today is no longer a novelty, it is the default. From account opening to investment tracking, every core function of traditional banking now has a faster, more user-friendly counterpart online. What Does It Mean to Bank Digital?

Online and Mobile Banking

Clearly Payments

JANUARY 21, 2025

Limited Payment Options: Many government platforms still lack support for modern payment methods like mobile wallets, credit cards, and digital banking. Key Statistics on Government Payments Citizen Expectations: According to a 2024, 78% of citizens prefer paying government fees online when given the option.

Government Payments

Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Indigenous Banking (Shroffs and Mahajans): Long before modern banks, India had a thriving indigenous banking system. 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.

Financial Inclusion

The Payments Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

The report also notes a shift in consumer preferences, with rising adoption of digital wallets, mobile POS payments, and BNPL services. Looking to 2025, mobile payments and digital commerce are projected to exceed 10 trillion, with open banking and real-time payments leading growth. trillion.

Payments Trends

The Payments Association

MARCH 19, 2025

As digital wallets reshape finance and big tech challenges traditional banks, who will control the future of money? CEO Linda Yaccarino framed the move as a leap forward, but the real story is bigger: tech giants are no longer just facilitating payments, theyre actively reshaping the financial industry.

Digital Payments

Fintech News

MAY 11, 2025

Released on May 08, the 2025 Cross-Border Payments 100 recognizes industry leaders across the sector. These companies span every segment of the market, from long-established remittances players and banks to neobanks, business-to-business (B2B) platforms, stablecoin providers and regional specialists, and are powering global trade.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Moreover, as super apps and embedded ecosystems gain traction in emerging markets, tokenisation offers a scalable security model that can flex with the complexity of multi-role, multi-wallet environments, notes Venkat Srinivasan, sales & go-to-market, banking and payments products, at Thales.

Security

The Fintech Times

MARCH 18, 2025

Ralf Germer, CEO and co-founder, PagBrasil Pix has been a giant windfall for Brazil and is now responsible for 90 per cent of bank transactions in Brazil. Wipay Another International Pix partner is Wipay, a Spanish company specialising in payment technology, which has announced the arrival of the Pix Instant Payment System in Europe.

Online and Mobile Banking

Finextra

JUNE 18, 2025

For example, contactless acceptance and PIN Online have been supported in nexo protocols since the beginning, whereas some countries took over 10 years to roll them out. nexo protocols have since been adopted by major players across Europe and beyond — not only for card payments but also supporting mobile and QR Code -based payments.

ISO 20022

Finovate

MARCH 7, 2025

What happens when an ongoing revolution in payment innovation meets a regulatory regime determined to ensure secure and safe transactions for individual consumers, business entities, and even governments? This is the payments landscape in the UK and EU in 2025. And thats a really positive development.

Payments

Finextra

JULY 16, 2025

The pressure to solve real challenges — such as low banking penetration, financial exclusion, limited access to credit cards, lack of interoperability, and acceptance barriers for traditional (and international) payment methods — planted the seeds for fintech and digital banks. And thats exactly what we did.

Payment APIs and Integration

Finextra

JUNE 15, 2025

If an online gaming service goes down 10 minutes before the start of a horse race that is a catastrophic event. If an online gaming service goes down 10 minutes before the start of a horse race that is a catastrophic event. Over 80% of the banking industry use batch. Reliance, security and speed are keys.

Technology

EBizCharge

MARCH 20, 2025

Install the payment gateway The next step is to install the payment gateway. Your provider may ask you to download a package and run an installer or set up online credentials, so following their instructions is essential. Many payment providers offer Sage-compatible plugins or extensions that can be downloaded and installed.

Payment Gateways

The Fintech Times

APRIL 17, 2025

As traditional banking processes are replaced by more integrated financial solutions, companies across industries are embedding payment processing, lending, insurance, and investment services directly into their platforms. Instead of a comprehensive dashboard of banking tools, they prefer services that are accessible when needed.

Embedded Finance

The Fintech Times

JUNE 26, 2025

Appointments Open banking fintech Yaspa has named Chris Lowe as chief financial officer. The London-based fintech is planning expansion into new markets and sectors, building on its instant payments and identity platform for igaming. UK entrepreneurs can enter online, with finalists pitching at a new London event on 14 November.

FinTech

The Fintech Times

MAY 2, 2025

As a result, European merchants have started offering five payment methods at checkout on average, although many are looking to increase this, according to new research by Aion Bank , the subscription-based, digital bank, in partnership with Vodeno , the API-based, cloud-native platform.

Online and Mobile Banking

Finextra

JULY 6, 2025

Zopa opens Manchester office London-headquartered digital bank Zopa is opening an office in Manchester as it bids to create a 500-strong workforce in the city. The bank is planning to tap into the city’s thriving tech ecosystem, strong financial services presence, and deep talent pool.

Online and Mobile Banking

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2024

TRANSFOND , the Romanian Banking Association , and the entire banking community in Romania announce that the new RoPay system has become operational. RoPay allows users to make instant mobile payments in line with the national payment scheme. This service is the result of a genuine community effort.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We have deep dives on connected devices, instant payments and what the digital shift means for customer expectations of card issuers. Customers now anticipate rewards, mobile integration, spend-management offerings — and that transactions that feel immediate and seamless regardless of marketplace or platform. banking license.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

A group of big European banks is planning to challenge Visa ’s and Mastercard ’s positions as the world’s two largest payment processing networks, Electronic Payments International reported. . The launch, first reported by Les Échos, is expected to be revealed by the 24 banks as early as Thursday (July 2). .

Visa

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Instant payments are becoming crucial to consumers participating in the platform economy. To meet this need, platforms are searching for new ways to bring instant payments onto their marketplaces. Around the Payments And the Platform Economy. Why TickPick Is Betting On Instant Payments, Fee Transparency.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The new year dawned with individual country and company initiatives tied to instant payments, and moving beyond cash transactions. 3) that, in Hungary, commercial banks have started a test phase for a domestic instant payments system, with a “go live” date slated for July 1.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To get a sense of the present state — and future — of instant payments, look to Italy. It has pulled ahead of its EU neighbors in developing real-time payments technology and in recruiting banks to adopt it. These days that “stable and efficient growth” has a lot to do with real-time payments.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Tesco Bank has introduced an online payment platform for credit card customers, and Square has rolled out on-demand payroll. Plus, Monit is rolling out its mobile finance platform for owners of small businesses. Tesco Bank Debuts Digital Payment Platform For 2.6M

On-Demand

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 31, 2024

Sweden-based investment platform, SAVR, has implemented instant payments from Brite Payments , an open banking-based instant payments provider, enabling customers to make larger direct money transfers into their accounts more quickly and securely.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

Since its debut four years ago, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) that facilitates inter-bank transactions, has propelled the growth of online payments, the Financial Times (FT) reported.

Volume

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In 2024, payment experts foresee increased demand for instant payments, greater use of alternative payment methods, simplified mobile-friendly payments, user-focused and secure payment practices, automation of payment processes, and heightened reliance on data analysis and AI.

Global Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

To remedy the problem, the Reserve Bank of India supports an option for offline payments through cards, wallets and mobile devices. The country’s central bank has proposed a pilot program for such a platform with built-in safety and liability protections for users. It’s going to be a long-drawn process,” he said.

Digital Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

DBS Bank India is partnering with Transport Corporation of India Limited (TCIL), which works in supply chains and logistics services, to provide truck drivers with instant payments via an application programming interface (API) solution, according to a press release.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Payments made with cash and checks are dropping in volume — the use of cash alone declined 40 percent over the past five years in Canada. Instant payments started 2020 on a high note, however, with the adoption of real-time payments and other speedy disbursement methods increasing over the past few years.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The recently released report by the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) offers a general framework for digital currencies. The BIS noted of central bank digital currency ( CBDC ) that “a CBDC could provide a complementary central bank money to the public, supporting a more resilient and diverse domestic payment system.

Central Bank

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In Pakistan, and elsewhere, the stars are aligning for greater use of digital banking and payments to improve financial inclusion. told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in an interview that the pandemic and the rise of mobile infrastructure have set the stage to bring people living in developing and emerging economies into the digital realm.

Digital Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Instead of waiting for their table at a restaurant or for their name to be called by a doctor, consumers can check in to dinner reservations and medical appointments remotely via a mobile device. Players in the payments and disbursements space are also increasingly working to keep consumers from playing the waiting game.

Instant Payments

Fintech News

MAY 21, 2024

Interest rates for savings accounts have become a prominent topic in recent years, driven by changing central bank policies and increasing inflation. In Singapore, banks have adjusted their offerings to attract customers by offering more competitive interest rates. inclusive of the prevailing interest rate of 0.05% p.a.)

Accounts

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Merchants and disbursements providers need to innovate quickly to stand up against their competitors, many of which are smaller FinTechs or startups that can capitalize on the host of customers that near-exclusively transact and receive money through digital and mobile devices. Instant payments are gaining in international markets.

Instant Payments