/crypto
Tether has brought in former executive director of the White House Crypto Council Bo Hines to spearhead a new US-regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin.
20 hours
Early Warning Services (EWS), the bank-owned outfit behind P2P payments service Zelle, could soon issue its own stablecoin, according to reports.
23 hours
In July 2025, the US passed the GENIUS Act, making it the first federal regulatory system for stablecoins, and laying down groundwork for stablecoin innovation in the banking and retail sectors.
12 September 2025
/wealth
The Children’s ISA (TCI) has completed the mass migration of 126,000 ISA and Junior ISA accounts from Embark to Quai Digital within seven months.
/startups
Eloquent AI, a startup focused on customer support automation for financial services, has launched its AI Operator platform and closed a $7.4 million seed round.
/people
The Bank of England is asking senior figures from banks, fintechs and merchants to throw their hats into the ring to join the new Retail Payments Infrastructure Board (RPIB).
11 September 2025
/ai
Singaporean mobile coffee ordering app Luckin Coffee has integrated with Alipay's AI agent for agentic ordering and payments via a conversational interface.
/payments
Public servants in the UK are largely unfamiliar with blockchain technology and see little use for it in the current financial system, suggests a recently published survey.
/markets
Securities market participants will have to make a number of changes to their operations if they are to handle a move to 24/7 trading.
Payments orchestration platform Paytently has unveiled an open banking-based account-to-account payment service built on Mastercard technology.
Portuguese payments processor Sibs is expanding its presence in central Europe through the acquisition of Poland's ITCard. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Citi and US Bank customers will be the first to get access to Mastercard's agentic payments technology ahead of a global rollout.
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