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Wero Is Taking Over iDEAL. Europe's Sovereign Checkout Finally Gets Real Volume.
EPI has started moving Dutch online payments from iDEAL to Wero. In Germany, Wero still struggles to win merchants. In the Neth...
Verification of Payee Is One Year Old. Instant Payments Are Still Testing Europe.
One year after Verification of Payee went live in the euro area, the consumer check works, but corporates are opting out at sca...
Your AI Agent Wants to Move Your Money. Wall Street Said No.
America's largest banks are drawing a hard line around autonomous access to customer accounts. Europe is testing a different mo...
Fintech's Second Act: From Disruption to Infrastructure
Fintech is no longer judged mainly by how well it challenges banks from the outside. It is judged by whether it can run as regu...
Agentic Commerce Had Its Biggest Launch Month. Nobody Wants to Own the Risk.
Agentic commerce just had its busiest launch month. The data says agents research a lot but still buy very little, and liabilit...
No Big Law Passed This Week. The Rulebook Changed Anyway.
This week's key fintech rules came from supervisors, not parliaments: ESMA's MiCA wish list, a $10bn US stablecoin line, uncapp...
Europe Agreed on Its New Payment Rules Ten Months Ago. Not One of Them Applies Yet.
2026 was supposed to be the year fintech got its new rulebook. Most of it is agreed, delayed or stuck, while the rules already ...
Banks Spent a Decade Building Apps. Now the Fight for the Customer Is Back in the Text Inbox.
RCS is turning the humble text message into a verified, app-like channel — and banks are being pushed back into an inbox they t...
EBICS vs. PSD2: Europe Built Two Bank Interfaces. They Were Never Meant to Compete.
Open banking was supposed to make old bank channels obsolete. Eight years after PSD2, corporates still move their money over EB...
BlackRock Says AI Agents Will Run on Stablecoins. The Agents Have Not Shown Up Yet.
BlackRock's new paper on the "machine-native economy" argues that autonomous AI agents will need stablecoins and tokenised comp...
THE METHODOLOGIES POWERING THE PAYMENTS SECTOR
The payments industry is a fast-paced and multilayered sector.
66% of UK Shoppers Still Carrying a Physical Card Despite Digital Wallet Popularity
Digital wallets have changed the commerce industry in the last couple of years. They provide numerous features that users are ...