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WeLab taps Google for AI innovation across Asia

Asian fintech company WeLab has formed a strategic partnership with Google to drive AI-powered banking solutions across across Asia.

26 September 2025

News/payments

Google and PayPal agree multi-year commerce collaboration

Google and PayPal have agreed a multi-year collaboration to advance agentic shopping and frictionless commerce payments.

18 September 2025

News/ai

Google unveils Agent Payments Protocol to power AI commerce

Google has unveiled an open protocol designed to serve as the foundation needed to enable AI agents to transact payments on behalf of users and merchants.

16 September 2025

Company announcement/payments

Saudi Central Bank augments national payments network with Google Pay

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) announced on Monday the launch of Google Pay, one of Google’s flagship payment services, through the Kingdom’s national payment network, Mada.

16 September 2025

Company announcement/ai

Plum unveils money management co-pilot using Google's Gemini

Plum, the smart money app trusted by millions, today unveiled its groundbreaking AI-powered tool built on Google Cloud and enabled by Google’s Gemini models.

09 September 2025

News/wholesale

Google Cloud blockchain to rival Stripe and Circle

Google Cloud’s head of Web3 strategy has been talking up the firm's Universal Ledger Layer-1 blockchain as a "credibly neutral" infrastructure for financial services, contrasting it with rival options from Stripe and Circle.

29 August 2025

News/regulation

FTC Chair warns US big tech on complying with UK and EU online safety acts

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned American tech giants against complying with the UK and EU’s new digital content laws to avoid violating US data protections.

22 August 2025

News/ai

Meta inks £10 billion cloud deal with Google

Alphabet’s Google cloud computing services have been tapped by Meta in a deal worth at least $10 billion, a part of Meta’s move to expand AI capabilities.

22 August 2025

News/payments

Google partners Wise to make remittances more accessible

Google is working with Wise, Ria Money Transfer and Xe to test a remittance experience via its online wallet and search.

13 August 2025

News/ai

Google Finance gets AI reboot

Google is giving its financial data, news and analytics service an artificial intelligence makeover.

11 August 2025

News/ai

NatWest and Google to boost UK startups with AI tools and training

NatWest is working with Google Cloud to support entrepreneurs on the UK lender's business Accelerator with access to AI tools, cloud technology, and expert training.

04 August 2025

Company announcement/payments

Visa brings Google Pay integration into fleet cards

Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, today announced a major advancement for Fleet Operators. With the addition of Google Pay tokenization and push-to-wallet, Visa addresses the long-standing challenge of fleet data tags being tied solely to the plastic card chip.

30 July 2025