/payments
Visa is promising financial institutions a long-overdue upgrade to the movement of capital in cross-border payments via a pre-funding stablecoin platform.
30 September 2025
/ai
Bank of America has rolled out an AI assistant to help staff deal with complex queries from institutional users of its Global Payments Solutions product.
/crypto
Digital assets are one of the key themes at Sibos 2025, and day one featured several sessions covering the intricacies of stablecoins, CBDCs, and the world of crypto.
/retail
Fiserv has signed a definitive agreement to buy StoneCastle Cash Management. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Visa has launched a hub to help issuers and fintechs deliver commercial payment and embedded finance experiences.
OpenAI has joined forces with Stripe to let people make purchases from within ChatGPT.
29 September 2025
A host of banking and capital market players - including Swift, the DTCC and UBS - have closed out the second stage of a Chainlink-led project to use AI and blockchain technology to standardise and streamline corporate actions processing.
/Sibos
In the opening plenary of Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, executives at Swift and leading German banks Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Bank introduced the themes of the conference and what can be accomplished on ‘the next frontier of global finance’.
Banco Santander has launched its buy now, pay later product, Zinia, in Spain, with an initial focus on installment payments on Amazon.
Bank-to-bank payment network Swift is to develop a shared digital ledger with 30 member banks to test the use of blockchain technology for real-time cross-border payments.
The UK's biggest banks are embarking on a pilot project to deliver the country's first live transactions of tokenised sterling deposits (GBTD).
/wholesale
Deutsche Bank has carried out its first euro-denominated cross-border payment via Partior’s blockchain platform.
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