Mobile & online banking

News/payments

Australians embrace digital banking as digital wallet use surges

Australian consumers are adopting digital banking services in increasing numbers with 99.3% of transactions taking place over digital channels, including A$160bn in payments made via mobile wallets.

25 July 2025

Research/Mobile & online bankingEvent Report

Modern payments excellence: Exploring diversification of channels, orchestration, and regulation

25 July 2025 61 downloads

Finextra TV/crime

How A2A Innovation is Advancing The Fight Against Fraud

Speaking to FinextraTV in this interview, Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time Payments, Mastercard and Luke Reynolds, SVP, Financial Crimes, Mastercard discuss the impact of fraud and payment scams and look to address their prevention. As well as covering the many forms of fraud, such as APP fraud and romance scams, Forest and Reynolds explore the innovations currently available to help reduce its impact. They provide an honest optimism whilst remaining aware of the existing complexities within fraud prevention, bringing attention to the impact of the latest account to account fraud prevention methods including risk-scoring and Mastercard's UK A2A Sandbox.

23 July 2025

News/ai

CaixaBank develops an AI agent to help customers explore products in the app

CaixaBank has launched a generative AI-based agent to help users of it mobile banking application learn details about products, compare the different available options, and choose which one best suits their needs.

21 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

How Overcoming Payment Complexity is a Balance of Innovation & Stability

In the middle of EBAday 2025 in Paris, Bana Akkad-Azhari, Head of Treasury Services, BNY joined the FinextraTV studio to provide insights into the growing complexity in the payments industry, especially in what is now a 24/7 world. Explaining how banks need to not only advance their own processes, but find the partners that can enable the technological agility they need to keep up, Akkad-Azhari emphasises the need for the technology to be scalable and, eventually, automated. While seeing the end goal being the heightening of the customer experience, Akkad-Azhari also mentions that banks need to know how to balance innovation with stability.

15 July 2025

News/markets

Starling eyes NYSE listing

UK-based challenger bank Starling is considering listing on the New York Stock Exchange as part of its US expansion plans.

15 July 2025

Finextra TV/retail

What Is Prompting The Growth in Demand For Pay by Bank?

While attending Money 20/20 2025 in Amsterdam, Todd Clyde, CEO, Token.io spoke with FinextraTV about Pay by Bank and what is driving its current growth. Defining what Pay by Bank is, Clyde showed how several initiatives and efforts across the world are contributing to a rise in its demand, how the technology itself has evolved, and what this might mean for the future.

11 July 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

What Will The Next Generation of the Investing Landscape Look Like?

Whilst attending the Communify Fincentric Experience 2025, Brian Casey, CEO, Westwood Holding Group, joined the FinextraTV studio and shared his thoughts on the event, the importance of networking and how exciting the next generation of investing will be. As part of this next generation, Casey says investors will continue to look for objective advice and guidance against the backdrop of a plethora of options.

08 July 2025

News/payments

Five more Belgian banks join the European Payments Initiative

Five big banks in Belgium have joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) with the intention of rolling out the Wero digital wallet and instant account-to-account (A2A) payment application to customers in the first half of next year.

07 July 2025