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Three Regulators Join Banks in Live Pilot of Quantum-Resistant Wallet Signing

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

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Know Your Agent Is the Compliance Standard Agentic Commerce Doesn’t Have Yet

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

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Five Minutes With…. John O’Connor, CEO of RealFi

RealFi CEO John O’Connor discusses stablecoins, real-world returns and building trust in digital asset infrastructure.

5 AUG 2026

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Five Minutes With… Azimkhon Askarov at CONCRYT

Azimkhon Askarov of CONCRYT discusses cross-border payments, merchant infrastructure, LLMs in payments data and transaction optimisation.

29 JUL 2026

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RTP Real Time Payments: What the RTP Network Is and How It Works

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

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Instant Payments vs Real Time Payments: Are They the Same?

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

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Five Minutes With… ChilliMint co-founder San Nakra-Shah

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

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What Is Payment Orchestration? The Simple Explanation + Examples

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

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BNPL’s New Rulebook Is a Windfall for the Firms That Sell Affordability

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

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Treasury Targets Faster AI Adoption in Finance as Survey Shows City Already Ahead

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

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The payments visibility gap: leaders want real-time data they can’t get

EMBARGO: Silverflow data held until 08:00 CEST, 16 July 2026. Internal review copy — do not publish before the embargo lifts.

17 JUL 2026

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Mansion House 2026: Britain bets on writing the rulebook first

Three announcements, one bet: open banking gets a permanent legislative home, stablecoins get transatlantic alignment, and gilts go on-chain. Britain is competing on rule-making speed, not capital. The gap between announcement and enforceable rule is the whole risk.

17 JUL 2026