/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).
7 hours
/ai
Singaporean mobile coffee ordering app Luckin Coffee has integrated with Alipay's AI agent for agentic ordering and payments via a conversational interface.
10 hours
/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.
11 hours
Payments orchestration platform Paytently has unveiled an open banking-based account-to-account payment service built on Mastercard technology.
13 hours
Portuguese payments processor Sibs is expanding its presence in central Europe through the acquisition of Poland's ITCard. Financial terms were not disclosed.
21 hours
Citi and US Bank customers will be the first to get access to Mastercard's agentic payments technology ahead of a global rollout.
Trading app Robinhood is bidding to usurp the likes of Reddit and X as the place to be for users to post about their trades, takes and market commentary.
10 September 2025
The UK's Financial Condut Authority is consulting on proposals to raise contactless limits for larger payments.
/wealth
Digital wealth management platform and online broker Scalable Capital has been granted authorisation by the ECB to conduct deposit and lending business as a fully-fledged bank.
Revolut is preparing for the next generation of merchant payments with the launch of a Pay by Bank option, avoiding card networks and sucking payments directly from consumer bank accounts.
BNPL giant Klarna has priced its IPO at $40.00 per share, providing an elevated valuation of $15 billion.
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