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Everyone loves a good bargain. It’s a rare delight to feel like you’ve beaten the odds and scored yourself a great deal, whether that’s buying a new car, making a saving on black Friday, or shaving cents off the weekly supermarket shop. Value at online casinos That feeling extends to the casino, where players are

Everyone loves a good bargain. It’s a rare delight to feel like you’ve beaten the odds and scored yourself a great deal, whether that’s buying a new car, making a saving on black Friday, or shaving cents off the weekly supermarket shop. Value at online casinos That feeling extends to the casino, where players are

A quiet but consequential shift is under way in US financial regulation. Crypto National Trust Banks Five prominent digital asset firms — Circle, Ripple, Fidelity Digital Assets, BitGo and Paxos — have secured conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to convert into federally chartered national trust banks. The decision

For centuries, money has been reassuringly simple. Central banks issued currency, commercial banks intermediated deposits and credit, and payments followed well-worn rails. A ‘Stablecoin Supercycle’ That clarity is now dissolving. Stablecoins — blockchain-based tokens pegged to fiat currencies — are edging towards what enthusiasts call a “supercycle”: a phase of rapid proliferation that could reshape

As the European Union (EU)’s third largest economy and a world top ten economic force, Italy has experienced rapid modernisation of its payment systems in recent years, in parallel with consolidation in its previously fragmented banking sector. And while cash use declines in line with other major economies, cards continue to play a major –

The first trend in Global Payments’ 2026 Commerce and Payment Trends Report marks a decisive shift in how transactions are initiated and executed: AI is evolving from a passive recommendation engine into an active purchasing agent. AI as buyer What began with chatbots handling customer queries has matured into “agentic commerce”, where AI systems can

Mobile payments continue to reshape how consumers interact with digital services, and nowhere is this shift more evident than in the UK’s burgeoning sports betting market. Mobile payments are on the rise As in-play wagering grows in popularity, the payment experience has become as critical as the odds themselves. For UK sports bettors, the rise

For decades, the Point of Sale was a fixed destination: a counter, a terminal, a moment at the end of the customer journey. That mental model is now obsolete. As Global Payments’ 2026 Commerce and Payment Trends Report makes clear, payment is no longer a place but a capability — one that follows the customer

Agentic AI represents a decisive break from the assistive technologies that have defined the past decade of fintech innovation. Agentic AI and the rewiring of financial services These systems do not merely recommend or optimise; they evaluate options, select outcomes, authorise actions and execute transactions across interconnected systems, all within pre-set human constraints. In financial

The commodification of identity on the dark web is reshaping the economics of financial crime — and exposing the limits of biometric verification. The dark web’s discount identity market New analysis from AMLTRIX, an open-source anti-money laundering framework, illustrates how mature and accessible the illicit identity trade has become. Across 25 widely available dark-web markets