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Global fintech investment reached $103.1 billion in the first half of 2026, up from $72.2 billion in the second half of 2025.
25 AUG 2026
Picture an agent built on Cloudflare's new wallet infrastructure. It has a spending allowance, a list of approved merchants and a maximum transaction size, all set by the business that deployed it.
25 AUG 2026
Financial regulators from three separate jurisdictions have started directly testing a live implementation of a newly finalised US post-quantum cryptography standard on bank wallets and cross-border digital asset transfers, in a pilot that moves the quantum-security debate from policy papers into working code.
25 AUG 2026
Agentic commerce already has live payment rails. What it does not have is a Know Your Agent standard: an agreed way for a bank to verify which agents deserve to hold a customer's payment credentials in the first place.
10 AUG 2026
RealFi CEO John O’Connor discusses stablecoins, real-world returns and building trust in digital asset infrastructure.
5 AUG 2026
Azimkhon Askarov of CONCRYT discusses cross-border payments, merchant infrastructure, LLMs in payments data and transaction optimisation.
29 JUL 2026
Learn how RTP real time payments work, from RTP network messages to limits, use cases, and controls so you can launch instant payments with confidence.
27 JUL 2026
Instant payments vs real time payments explained: learn the key differences by market, what affects speed, and how to set clear user expectations.
24 JUL 2026
ChilliMint co-founder San Nakra-Shah says payments businesses need to focus on trust, accountability and customer experience as AI changes how people search, choose and pay.
22 JUL 2026
What is payment orchestration? Learn how it routes payments, retries failures, secures card data, and unifies reporting to boost approvals and uptime.
20 JUL 2026
The consumer headline on 15 July was exclusion: how many current users the affordability checks might price out. That is the wrong place for an operator to look.
17 JUL 2026
HM Treasury's two AI Champions have published a plan setting out how the government, regulators and financial firms should speed up the safe adoption of artificial intelligence, with 10 recommendations the government says it has accepted where they fall to it.
17 JUL 2026
