Consumers and small businesses receiving payments in a range of countries, including five of the world’s largest remittance markets, will be among the first to benefit as Swift and banks globally roll out a pioneering new framework to bring next generation speed and new levels of affordability and predictability to cross-border retail payments.

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, has partnered with DT One to enable mobile top-ups directly within the wallet using stablecoins, linking onchain balances to everyday telecom services. Through DT One's infrastructure, Bitget Wallet users can access mobile top-ups in more than 170 countries, spanning over 500 local operators. The integration allows users to pay for airtime and data plans globally using USDT and USDC across Base, Solana, Tron, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Polygon and Morph.

Social media giants are being urged to join the fight against the soaring number of scam ads in the UK and to pay their fair share in combatting online fraud.  The call comes ahead of the Government’s National Fraud Strategy, set to be published imminently.

The Payments Association (TPA), wants a Home Office-led overhaul of how online fraud is fought in the UK and set out the sector’s view on the way forward and how to take action at its PAY360 event in London this month.

WealthKernel, a digital investing infrastructure provider, today announces its partnership with Seapoint, a business account that automates payroll, expenses, invoice payment, reporting and more for startups and scale-ups. The partnership enables Seapoint to offer access to Money Market Funds (MMFs) and custody services to its customers. 

Dynamic Planner, the UK’s leading digital advice platform, has analysed the data from 9000 Financial Wellbeing and Attitude to Risk Questionnaires*, to reveal insightful and actionable findings ahead of International Women’s Day.

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has rolled out an upgraded Market Maker Incentive Program that introduces a group-based maker rate structure across all spot and futures trading pairs. The update is designed to deepen order-book liquidity, improve execution quality, and provide a more tailored incentive framework for professional market makers operating on the platform. The updated structure will take effect on March 4, 2026, between 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM (UTC+8).

One in five Brits (22%) have asked their bank for a refund within the past 12 months for legitimate items and services purchased, new research has found.

While more than half (58%) of customers said they returned the money after realising their mistake, 36% ended up keeping the refund.

Younger consumers were found to be far more likely to have filed false chargeback claims, with two in five people (40%) aged 16–24 admitting to doing so within the past year.