Interledger Foundation Maps Instant Payment Path for US CDFIs
The foundation's first domestic programme partners five community lenders to identify barriers blocking access to FedNow instant payment rails....
Category : Paytech
Gr4vy and Unlimit Partner to Extend Local Payment Method Reach
The payment orchestration platform and global financial infrastructure firm will give enterprise merchants access to local methods across Latin America, Africa and Asia....
UK Businesses File £700m CAT Claim over Visa and Mastercard EEA Fees
A Competition Appeal Tribunal claim alleges the card networks raised UK-EEA interchange fees five-fold after Brexit, costing businesses up to £200m a year....
Oobit Lets AI Assistants Pay with Stablecoins Via One-Time Cards
Oobit AI Payments issues a disposable card per transaction, letting AI agents spend stablecoins without accessing the user's underlying account....
Behind the Idea: Arf
by Rowen Brooks
Arf co-founder and CEO Ali Erhat Nalbant on why pre-funding still traps capital in cross-border payments and how on-demand settlement liquidity sets it free....
Wise Adds eSIM Plans and Cross-continent QR Payments to Travel Hub
Wise has expanded its Travel Hub with customisable eSIM data plans and a unified QR payment scanner covering local schemes across five continents....
Airtel Money Prices LSE Listing at $7bn on Institutional Demand
Airtel Africa's mobile money arm raised $700m in a London secondary offering backed by the IFC, TPG, Mastercard and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund....
Lumepay’s Luc Varejes on fixing the plumbing of African cross-border payments, starting in Kenya
Lumepay Obtains Regulatory Clearance to Launch Multi-Rail Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure in Kenya...
Tap Global Appoints Moorwand to Issue New Multi-Currency Mastercard
Tap Global's 400,000-user platform will offer customers direct multi-currency spending from app balances, with card interchange and FX as operating revenue....
Fipto and Spiko Link Atablecoin Rails to UCITS T-Bill Funds
The Paris-based partnership lets corporate treasurers allocate idle EURC and USDC balances into regulated UCITS money market funds without leaving Fipto's platform....