"Global payments processors Visa and Mastercard's default multilateral interchange fees which are charged to retailers infringe competition law, a London tribunal ruled on Friday in the latest round of the long-running legal saga. London's Competition Appeal Tribunal...
IMF Study Suggests Interoperability Boosts Digital Payments Use
"The International Monetary Fund has published a report on growing retail digital payments, which is a significant aim of many digital public infrastructure and financial inclusion programs worldwide. Specifically, the study looks at the value of interoperability as...
The Rise of Embedded and Invisible Payments
"The other day, I pre-ordered my coffee in an app, stopped into my local shop, and walked out with my drink. No wallet, no personal identification number, no paper receipt—just a quick, unremarkable moment. It made me realize how much payments have faded into the...
Here’s Everything New for Apple Wallet in iOS 26
"Apple Wallet, like every other iOS 26 app, is getting some Liquid Glass UI changes this year. But iOS 26 is also an especially packed update for new features coming to Apple Wallet. Here’s what’s new."
Bolt Announces Bolt Connect for Marketplaces and Launches Support for Stablecoin Payments
"Bolt, the checkout, identity and payments platform, today announced Bolt Connect, a new product designed to help marketplaces onboard merchants faster, streamline operations and scale with fewer resources. Bolt Connect gives marketplace operators a single integration...
Wirex Launches Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Payments on Fireblocks
"Wirex is proud to announce that Wirex Pay Chain is now officially supported on Fireblocks, a digital asset and payments infrastructure platform. This integration enables Fireblocks' institutional clients to easily access Wirex Pay's self-custodial stablecoin payment...
Balance and Alibaba.com Partner to Bring Flexible B2B Payments to SMEs Across the United States
"Balance, the AI-powered financial infrastructure platform for B2B commerce, announced today the launch of “Pay Later for Business” on Alibaba.com, an embedded financing solution designed to give U.S. small and medium-sized enterprises greater purchasing power and...
Crypto Exchange Kraken Debuts Peer-to-Peer Payments App Krak
"Crypto exchange Kraken on Thursday launched a peer-to-peer payments app that enables users to send and receive funds - in both cryptocurrency and fiat currency - across more than a hundred countries. The move is a bid to expand Kraken's offerings beyond its digital...
Big Ten and Big 12 Enter Historic Partnerships With PayPal to Enable Institutional Payments for Student-Athletes in New Revenue Sharing Model
"PayPal today announced multi-year agreements with the Big Ten and Big 12 Conferences that will modernize the distribution of institutional payments from universities to student-athletes in a new revenue-sharing model. The new institutional payments initiative enables...
Episode 267 – Fanning the Flames: Agentic Commerce
Russ Jones and Drew Edmond spent some time at the Glenbrook water cooler this week to consider the rapidly emerging topic of agentic commerce and agentic payments. Tune in as they explore different industry perspectives in order to understand the implications of this new technology in the payments ecosystem.