Swift Accelerates Transformation of Consumer Payments as Banks Roll Out New Framework for Retail Transactions
- 5 days 14 hours ago
- Payments
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.
PPRO Brings Swish into PayPal, Giving Swedish Consumers a Familiar Way to Pay Around the World
- 5 days 14 hours ago
- Payments
PPRO, one of the leading local payments platforms, has collaborated with PayPal to enable 8.7 million Swish users to pay with their preferred payment method at thousands of online stores around the world.
Bitget Introduces Group-Based Maker Rates To Strengthen Spot And Futures Liquidity
- 5 days 17 hours ago
- Cryptocurrencies
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... more
Worldline Completes Its First Wero Online Payment With the Red Cross in Belgium
- 6 days 14 hours ago
- Payments
Worldline, a European leader in payment services, has enabled its first Wero online payment transaction in Belgium, the second European nation to enable eCommerce payments after Germany. This historic moment was done for the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders (Rode Kruis-Vlaanderen) following the announcement of Wero’s eCommerce launch in the country.
Visa and Bridge Expand Collaboration, With Plans to Bring Stablecoin-Linked Cards to Over 100 Countries
- 6 days 16 hours ago
- Payments
Visa, a global leader in digital payments, and Bridge, a leading stablecoin infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, today announced an expansion of their global card issuance product that they first unveiled in 2025. Bridge enables businesses and fintech developers to offer stablecoin-backed Visa cards. Now, through Bridge’s partnership with Lead Bank, these card transactions can be settled onchain with Visa.
Nexi Launches New Agentic Commerce Capabilities, Enabling Automated Payments Workflows for AI Agents
- 6 days 16 hours ago
- Payments
Nexi Group, the European PayTech, today announced
Klarna Expands Further Into Agentic Commerce, Offering Flexible Payments to Merchants via Stripe's Shared Payment Tokens
- 6 days 16 hours ago
- Payments
Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, today announced that its flexible payment options will soon be supported in AI agent-driven shopping experiences through Stripe’s Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs), making Klarna available in AI-powered checkout flows for US merchants already live with Klarna through Stripe, provided AI shopping agents allow the ability to offer flexible payments at checkout.
Ripple Redefines Payments With End-to-End Stablecoin Platform and Global Customer Momentum
- 6 days 16 hours ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain-based enterprise solutions across traditional and digital finance, today announced a major expansion of Ripple Payments — its solution for moving money across both traditional and digital rails.
Spreedly Makes Agentic Commerce a Live Channel for Merchants
- 6 days 17 hours ago
- Payments
AI agents have advanced from recommending products to completing purchases at checkout. Spreedly today announced that agentic commerce is now live as a channel within its open payments platform, enabling merchants to process agent-initiated transactions over their existing payment infrastructure.
Lessn Exceeds $100 Million Turnover On Its Payments Orchestration Platform
- 1 week 18 hours ago
- Payments
Accounts payable automation company Lessn today announced that it exceeded $100 million being transacted on its platform in February 2026 within its first year of operations, as the company considers a new investment round.
Santander And Mastercard Complete Europe’s First Live End-To-End Payment Executed By An AI Agent
- 1 week 1 day ago
- Payments
Banco Santander and Mastercard today announced the successful completion of Europe’s first live end-to-end payment executed by an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, representing the first agentic payment carried out within a regulated banking framework and marking a significant milestone in the application of AI systems capable of initiating and completing transactions on behalf of customers.
Strategic Imperatives Expands GoCardless Integration To Automate End-To-End Billing And Disbursements
- 1 week 1 day ago
- Payments
Strategic Imperatives, a leading provider of cloud-native billing and revenue management solutions for telecoms and connectivity providers, has expanded its partnership with bank payment company GoCardless to integrate the fintech’s new Outbound Payments feature - a disbursement capability which enables businesses to send payments to their customers.
Resilience Cyber Claims Data Reveals the New Economics of Professionalized Cybercrime
- 1 week 4 days ago
- Cryptocurrencies
New cyber insurance claims data from leading cyber risk company Resilience reveals a dramatic evolution in the economics of cybercrime. An analysis of claims across Resilience's client portfolio in 2025 showcases a remarkable shift in how threat actors execute prolonged attacks on organizations, while painting an increasingly common picture of the material consequences of cyber incidents, both in their immediate aftermath and in the shockwaves... more
Visa Completes Acquisition of Prisma and Newpay
- 1 week 4 days ago
- Payments
Visa today announced it has completed its acquisition of Prisma Medios de Pago S.A.U. and Newpay S.A.U. in Argentina. This transaction strengthens Visa's commitment to advancing payment innovation and modernizing financial infrastructure across the country.
MoonPay, M0 and PayPal Announce PYUSDx: The Infrastructure Platform for PYUSD-Backed Stablecoins
- 1 week 4 days ago
- Cryptocurrencies
MoonPay and M0 today introduced PYUSDx*, a new offering that enables the creation of application-specific stablecoins backed by PayPal USD (PYUSD). PYUSDx is designed to help builders launch and scale application-specific stablecoins while significantly lowering the technical and operational overhead to get started.
