PayTech

Mastercard pilots instant cross-border FX settlements

Mastercard pilots instant cross-border FX settlements

Mastercard, the global payments technology company, has taken part in a Eurosystem-led pilot on the TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform to test instant...
ClearBank Europe launches Digital Asset Rails

ClearBank Europe launches Digital Asset Rails

ClearBank Europe has launched its Digital Asset Rails, a new capability enabling programmable liquidity for cross-border settlement with round-the-clock fiat payouts in euros via...
ComplyAdvantage

ComplyAdvantage brings payment screening to Mesh

ComplyAdvantage, an AI-driven financial crime detection and risk data company, has launched Payment Screening on Mesh, bringing its existing screening capability into its AI-native...
PingPong and Visa launch card-to-account payment solution

PingPong and Visa launch card-to-account payment solution

PingPong, an embedded financial infrastructure provider for global businesses, has joined forces with Visa to introduce a new card-to-account payment solution designed to close...

Alipay+ launches cross-border payments in Latin America

Ant International's Alipay+, a global payment gateway connecting 150 million merchants and two billion consumer accounts, has announced a rollout of cross-border mobile payment...
Scapia raises $63m in General Catalyst-led round

Scapia raises $63m in General Catalyst-led round

Scapia, an Indian travel FinTech platform, has closed a $63m funding round led by General Catalyst, with continued backing from existing investors Peak XV...
Cycles nets $6.4m to build on-chain clearing layer

Cycles nets $6.4m to build on-chain clearing layer

Cycles, a startup developing an open, privacy-preserving clearing network for digital asset markets and stablecoin payments, has raised $6.4m in a funding round led...
Visa and Trip.com Group partner to enhance Asia Pacific travel

Visa and Trip.com Group partner to enhance Asia Pacific travel

Visa, a world leader in digital payments operating across more than 200 countries and territories, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Trip.com...
Adyen and Starling bring tap to pay to UK SMEs

Adyen and Starling bring tap to pay to UK SMEs

Adyen, a global FinTech payments platform, has partnered with Starling Bank, the UK digital bank, to launch a tap to pay feature that allows...
Luminor bets on cloud to future-proof Baltic payments

Luminor bets on cloud to future-proof Baltic payments

Baltic bank Luminor has completed a significant step in its cloud transformation strategy, migrating its core payment services onto Tieto Banktech's Payments as a...

News Stories

Why AI in wealth management depends on fixing the foundations first

Why AI in wealth management depends on fixing the foundations first

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming the defining battleground for wealth management. From predictive portfolio analysis to automated client engagement, firms across the industry are...

AI is reshaping AML in Australia — but at what risk?

Australia's financial crime compliance sector is caught between two forces pulling in opposite directions, according to RegTech firm Napier AI. AI is simultaneously strengthening...
crime

Are we at the end of fragmented financial crime compliance?

Financial crime has never respected organisational charts. Fraud becomes money laundering. Identity theft enables account takeover. A mule account today becomes the source of...
Why hesitating on Verification of Payee could cost banks

VoP delays: the fraud risks banks can’t ignore

As Europe's shift to instant account-to-account payments accelerates, the pressure on financial institutions to implement robust fraud safeguards is mounting. Movitz Payments CEO and founder...
Prometeia: Italian production beats expectations in April

Prometeia: Italian production beats expectations in April

Italian industrial production has grown for a third consecutive month, according to analysis by Prometeia, offering tentative relief to financial services operators monitoring the...

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