2+ hour ago  (389+ words) Worldline, ING, and Visa say they have completed a live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in Europe. That matters because the discussion around agentic commerce has so far been dominated by prototypes and future-state thinking." Mathieu Altwegg positions Visa's contribution as…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago  (56+ words) HM Treasury urges tokenization and new digital money in the UK retail payments infrastructure to enable a multi-money ecosystem and programmable payments....

3+ hour, 20+ min ago  (279+ words) Wema Bank has unveiled the seventh edition of its innovation programme, Hackaholics, with a focus on empowering young Nigerian innovators and accelerating the growth of technology-driven solutions across Africa. The financial institution announced Hackaholics 7. 0 at a news conference on Wednesday…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (182+ words) Digital-first Erebor Bank is discussing a new fundraising round that could value the lender at no less than $8 billion, roughly double its $4. 35 billion valuation at the end of last year, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the talks. Founded…...

4+ hour, 52+ min ago  (595+ words) As the weather hotted up in Zurich last week, so too did the debate, with the Point Zero Forum coinciding with the first Swiss Fintech Week. Both formats highlighted the dynamic interplay of the financial industry, technology and regulation. Looking…...

15+ min ago  (367+ words) Tieto Banktech is implementing Verification of Payee functionality for one of the leading specialist banks in Europe, NOBA Bank Group, helping to strengthen its already advanced and robust fraud and payments framework for customers across its brands, Bank Norwegian and…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (67+ words) The Malone Telegram NEW YORK, July 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stablecoin X Inc. (Nasdaq: "USDE), the first public stablecoin infrastructure company focusing on the Ethena digital dollar ecosystem, today announced the official launch of its flagship infrastructure software platform, Stablecoin X Harness…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (410+ words) UK regulators are calling for tokenization and "new forms of digital money" to be part of the core infrastructure of the country's future retail payment ecosystem. In a Thursday update to the government's roadmap for modernizing retail payment systems, HM…...

34+ min ago  (387+ words) Cr'dit Agricole's asset-servicing arm moves to buy one of France's newly Mi CA-licensed digital asset providers One of Europe's largest asset-servicing firms just made its clearest move yet into crypto. CACEIS, the custody and fund administration arm of French banking…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago  (286+ words) Swift'is working with four U. K. banking giants to improve cross-border consumer payments. "This framework represents an important step forward for the UK payments ecosystem, Adam Bealey, Swift's chief executive for the U. K. and Ireland, said in a news release. The release notes…...