New research from leading payments consultancy, PSE Consulting, highlights the rapid adoption of AI-driven shopping tools and growing consumer trust in agentic AI ahead of Christmas this year, signalling a transformative moment for payments infrastructure and fintech. 

Post Office has signed a new five-year agreement with Cash Access UK to continue operating Banking Hubs across the UK. Post Office already operates 200 Banking Hubs and will play a central role in delivering on the Government’s ambition to have 350 Banking Hubs operating by the end of this Parliament.

Moneyhash is collaborating with Mastercard to expand merchant access to its Merchant Cloud platform across the Middle East and Africa. By connecting to Mastercard’s Gateway through a single unified API, merchants can simplify integration, streamline operations and enhance payment performance across markets.

INXY Payments, the stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure platform for global businesses, revealed a structural shift in how companies across multiple sectors are adopting stablecoins as an operational payment rail. This data is drawn from the company’s internal analytics. The business has surpassed $2 billion in annual transaction volume, representing 500% year-on-year growth.

Nodu, a stablecoin infrastructure startup making digital assets work within traditional finance, announced today that it has closed a $1.45 million pre-seed round led by Digital Space Ventures. Nodu’s long-term vision is to connect over 170 countries into one seamless payment network, where stablecoins act as the universal bridge between currencies, systems, and economies.

As AI becomes central to fintech operations and payments workflows, Equals Money | Railsr has partnered with Okta, the San-Francisco based identity and access management company, to enhance security, visibility, and governance.

In the lead up to and immediately after the Autumn Budget, NCR Atleos, the UK’s largest ATM operator and a leading provider of shared banking services, anonymously surveyed the public through an On Screen Questionnaire at 11,998 ATMs nationwide. The findings show the Autumn Budget has already changed how people plan to manage their money.

Intuit, the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, today announced it has signed a multi-year, strategic partnership with Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL) (“Circle”)1, one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, to accelerate next-generation financial services powered by stablecoin technology. The agreement establishes a framework for Intuit to leverage Circle’s comprehensive stablecoin infrastructure and USDC across the Intuit platform.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today announced an enhanced version of LexisNexis® IDVerse®, bringing next-generation document and biometric verification to industries including financial services, gaming, retail, telecommunications and more.

Cache, the modern investment platform for investors with concentrated stock positions, today announced it has surpassed $1 billion in platform assets, marking a milestone built on trust, technology, and a new generation of professionals ready to take control of their financial futures.