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The United Kingdom is one of the world’s most dynamic payment markets, and a European leader in Open Banking, instant payments and other areas. Despite much hype around new payment forms, cards continue to play an important role in Britain’s payment mix – with evidence suggesting their use will continue to grow over the next

Lloyds Bank has confirmed the £120 million acquisition of Curve which marks one of the most strategically significant moves by a UK bank in digital wallets and consumer payments in recent years. While the deal has attracted attention for shareholder disputes and the valuation, far below the £250m+ Curve has raised, its long-term implications for

How much do I earn or lose as an acquirer from a specific merchant? How does the financial impact of launching a card product align with initial forecasts and expectations? These are crucial questions for card transaction profitability, yet many do not know the exact answers – writes Kirill Lisitsyn, CEO & Сo-Founder at Torus.

Brazil’s instant payments system, Pix, is preparing to cross a symbolic threshold as it marks its fifth anniversary. Pix hits 8 billion monthly transactions According to a new analysis by EBANX, monthly Pix transactions could reach 7.9 billion in December, driven by peak holiday spending and a surge in consumer adoption. No other real-time payments

Apple has taken a significant step into the digital identity ecosystem with the launch of Digital ID, a passport-based credential that can be created and stored directly in Apple Wallet. Apple rolls out digital ID in Wallet The feature, debuting in beta at more than 250 Transportation Security Administration checkpoints across the US, extends Apple’s

JPMorgan Chase has reached a series of landmark agreements with the fintech data aggregators that serve as the connective tissue of the Open Banking ecosystem, securing the right to charge for access to customer account data after years of largely uncompensated usage. JPMorgan deal good for Open Banking The arrangements — struck with Plaid, Yodlee,

The global monetary system is undergoing its sharpest reconfiguration in decades. Push away from cash toward digital currencies New research from the Venom Foundation argues that physical cash is entering its final phase, with Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) driving an accelerated shift to state-backed digital currencies and regulated stablecoins. The

Visa and Google are each rolling out sweeping upgrades to their agentic commerce platforms, accelerating the shift toward AI-powered shopping and payments. The moves sharpen the focus on how to secure this new agentic commerce economy as it moves from experimental to everyday use. Visa’s Latest Move Visa’s latest move centres on its new Trusted

BLIK, Poland’s leading mobile payments system, has launched a pilot programme enabling euro-denominated phone-to-phone (P2P) transfers with other European mobile payment providers — a significant step toward a unified European payments market. Mobile payments go European with EuroPA pilot The pilot was unveiled during the Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon, marking the first successful transaction

Ant International is extending the boundaries of biometric payments with the launch of smart glass payments using iris authentication technology for its Alipay+ GlassPay solution. Ant unveils smart glass payments The move builds on Ant’s existing voiceprint authentication and marks a major step toward secure, hands-free, and frictionless transactions in augmented reality (AR) environments. Developed