Fintech News

JUNE 16, 2025

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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Finextra

JUNE 24, 2025

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. WHY DOES THIS MATTER?

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Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

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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Finextra

JUNE 26, 2025

And if your customers don’t feel safe while making payments, they won’t return. In this guide, you’ll understand what digital payment security is and what these regulations mean, how they impact your payment operations, and what you need to do to meet them. PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

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Finextra

JULY 11, 2025

Home Announcements Payments Cobre introduces real-time interbank B2B payments in Colombia External This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. Cobre introduces real-time interbank B2B payments in Colombia The launch of Cobre Real-Time B2B Payments Colombia is a first for the country.

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Fintech News

JUNE 24, 2025

The partnership comes as the State Bank of Vietnam introduces new requirements for open APIs. Brankas brings its open finance infrastructure and security expertise, while Gimasys contributes deep local market knowledge and experience integrating core banking systems. ” Todd D.

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The Payments Association

JANUARY 15, 2025

Swift drives global interoperability and innovation, aligning with the UK’s National Payments Vision to enhance seamless, secure payments. The UKs payments landscape is at an inflexion point.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2025

Unifying global fiat and stablecoin payments, stablecoin payments infrastructure provider BVNK has announced a new embedded wallet. They have existed in today’s market for some time but have had limited capabilities to manage stablecoin, crypto and fiat payments in one place. Embedded wallets are not a novelty.

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The Payments Association

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The future of payments is digital, inclusive, and transformativedriving financial access, innovation, and global economic empowerment. As digital payment technologies evolve, they are revolutionising how transactions occur and breaking down barriers that have long excluded billions from the financial ecosystem.

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Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

In their place stands a more sophisticated and scalable payment conduit: the digital wallet. From biometric-enabled tap-and-go to invisible in-app payments, checkout time is collapsing—and conversion rates are rising. Speed Converts: Digital wallets eliminate physical and cognitive friction.

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The Payments Association

MAY 3, 2025

The payments outlook 2025: Strategic priorities from industry leaders May 2 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp Whats the article about? The strategic priorities for the payments industry in 2025, as discussed by senior payments leaders who attended a Payments Labs roundtable.

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Finextra

JUNE 18, 2025

Our goal was clear: overcome the fragmentation that plagued international merchants, who had to maintain different payment solutions for each country, leading to operational complexity and significant costs.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Completing online payments via manual card entry can be time-consuming and off-putting for customers. This article will cover everything you need to know about Click to Pay, including its history, how it works, and how you can implement the payment method in your business. Learn More What is Click to Pay?

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The Payments Association

MARCH 18, 2025

From open banking to open finance and beyond: The future of financial data-sharing March 18 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? Open finance is transforming financial services by enabling broader data-sharing, fostering competition, and driving innovation in payments and financial products.

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Fintech Review

APRIL 10, 2025

This collaboration enhances the Borderless.xyz network by integrating Capas local payment rails, enabling seamless, faster, and more cost-efficient transactions for financial institutions, payments companies, fintechs, and corporates operating in Mexico.

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Fintech Review

MAY 4, 2025

Whether you are a B2B founder building a global marketplace, a CFO steering a SaaS scale-up, or a finance team tasked with managing complex payments, finding the best fintech tools is critical. This guide covers the top 100 fintech tools across key categories including banking APIs, billing, KYC/AML, FX, crypto tools, and open banking.

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Finextra

JUNE 2, 2025

In practice, this means banks expose certain data (like account balances or transaction history) through open APIs, but only when you, the customer, give consent. The result was an explosion of fintech apps offering budgeting, lending, payments, and investment services that leverage multiple banks’ data.

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Fintech News

APRIL 24, 2025

From digital payments to decentralised finance (DeFi), these companies are solving real-world challenges like financial inclusion and cross-border transactions, while setting new global standards for innovation. billion payments Coda 2.5 billion payments, gamification Airwallex 5.5 billion insurtech Matrixport 1.05

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Thanks to Way4s flexibility, Equity Bank Kenya was the first in the world to enable interoperability between the payment card network and a leading digital wallet ecosystem M-PESA. This can be an account opened in Way4 or in the integrated Core Banking System. Now we have more time and capacity to develop the payment business.

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Finextra

JULY 8, 2025

China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) is rapidly emerging as a central artery in the internationalization of the Renminbi (RMB), offering a robust infrastructure for cross-border settlements and reshaping how global institutions engage with China’s markets. What Is CIPS and Why Does It Matter?

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Fintech Finance

MAY 2, 2025

Rain provides backend infrastructure – APIs, compliance layers and settlement logic – that enables fintechs and wallets to build and launch stablecoin-linked card programs. As demand for real time, global payments grow, Rain is seeing strong momentum from partners looking to issue and use onchain cards and settle in stablecoins.

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Finextra

JULY 16, 2025

This logic, however, has been increasingly challenged, and the sector where this shift is advancing by leaps and bounds is digital payments. E-wallets perfectly illustrate this transformation because theyve become more than payment methods; theyve evolved into ecosystems developed to meet the specific demands and needs of local populations.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The significance of cross-border payments has never been greater. Yet, despite the rise of instant domestic payments, cross-border transactions remain slow, costly, and inefficient. Domestic instant payment systems (IPS), such as Malaysias DuitNow and Singapores PayNow, have revolutionised payments within their respective countries.

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The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2025

The agreement brings together OpenPayd’s API-based payment and banking services with Circle’s infrastructure for USDC, a dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by regulated affiliates of Circle. The primary goal of this partnership is to support cross-border transactions and digital asset operations for enterprise clients.

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The Payments Association

JUNE 11, 2025

The platform risk paradox: Managing digital commerce fraud at scale 12 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? A shift toward AI-driven, integrated fraud management systems aligned with tightening UK regulations. Why is it important? What’s next?

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Fintech News

APRIL 27, 2025

Payments company Thunes announced today it has raised US$150 million in its Series D funding round, the largest in the company’s history. The round was led by private equity firms Apis Partners and Vitruvian Partners. said Floris de Kort, CEO of Thunes.

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Open Banking Excellence

JULY 8, 2025

has made significant strides in the voluntary adoption of APIs for data sharing. With over 76 million consumer accounts now using its APIs, the standards body Financial Data Exchange (FDX) has achieved the largest customer adoption globally. This is primarily due to smaller banks lagging in API adoption.

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Fintech News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

However, challenges remain, particularly regarding interoperability. To address this, stakeholders including NETS Group and Liquid Group are working on interoperable QR payment solutions that are designed to simplify processes for merchants, Chia said.

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Fintech News

JULY 23, 2025

In a recent webinar, B2B payments service provider Bottomline brought together regional experts to discuss how banks in APAC can close the gap and compete more effectively. Why SaaS Matters Now: The Pressure to Modernise The adoption gap is especially significant given APAC’s leadership in payment innovation.

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Finextra

JUNE 23, 2025

policymakers have sketched out the first federal framework for payment stablecoins. It classifies payment stablecoin issuers as regulated financial institutions, pulling them firmly under anti-money laundering and consumer protection rules. The GENIUS Act changes that virtually overnight. By passing this law, U.S.

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Finextra

JUNE 8, 2025

From Disruption to Integration Circle, the issuer of USDC, has long positioned itself as the “compliant” stablecoin: fully reserved, dollar-backed, regulated in the U.S. Stablecoins are not just payment mechanisms. By becoming a public company, Circle has won trust from banks, payment processors, regulators, and asset managers.

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Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

They will need to co-exist with existing clearing and settlement processes and infrastructures, and this means interoperability is crucial. This can concern payments, conditional payments (a DLT based version of a letter of credit) and the post-trade settlement of securities and derivates (including margin calls).

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Fintech Weekly

JUNE 8, 2025

Subscribe to FinTech Weekly's newsletter Read by executives at JP Morgan, Coinbase, Blackrock, Klarna and more Application programming interfaces (APIs) are crucial to how fintech platforms work. Separate banking and financial systems need efficient and standardized ways to communicate with each other, which APIs provide.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

The advanced platform will empower Orange to rapidly scale its payment services while ensuring smooth integration within the broader ecosystem. With an open architecture and API-first approach, the platform enhances flexibility and interoperability.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

In recent years, the payments market has been marked by continuous dynamism, driven by disruptive innovations and the emergence of new paradigms based on open models. It is offered by the payers PSPs to their users, both for domestic and cross-border payments in euro.

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The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

Payments regulation roadmap: Q3 2025 18 July 2025 by Payments Intelligence Introduction Regulatory developments continue apace in the payments industry, ushering in a period of intensified complexity and strategic significance. Tackling this with tactical fixes only deepens the challenge.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Founded in Edinburgh in 2018, BR-DGE is a payment orchestration provider on a mission for hyper-growth. The company enables enterprise merchants, financial institutions, platforms and payment providers access payment tools and products via a single integration.

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