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Freemarket and Axiym today launched a service that gives businesses real-time access to freshly minted, primary-market USD₮ issued by Tether. Businesses that need USD₮ for emerging-market payments can acquire it through secondary-market channels, where pricing and counterparty arrangements may vary.
29 SEP 2026
Amazon has started offering instalment financing on Amazon.co.uk through a new tie-up with Affirm, giving UK shoppers a way to spread the cost of purchases over as long as 48 months.
23 SEP 2026
Manchester-based payments company Ryft has raised £20 million in a Series B round led by Gresham House Ventures, to support expansion across Europe and the US. Existing investors Pembroke VCT and Ingenii Capital also took part, Ryft said. The company didn't disclose a valuation.
21 SEP 2026
UK Finance has called for a single national roadmap to accelerate the adoption of tokenised wholesale markets, arguing that the UK has built many of the necessary foundations but has yet to turn them into activity at scale.
9 SEP 2026
Visa has updated A2A Protect, its tool for catching account-to-account fraud, with a unified fraud score built on technology from Featurespace, the fraud-detection firm it completed acquiring in December 2024, as it looks to help banks flag suspicious transfers before a payment is authorised rather than after money has left an account.
2 SEP 2026
Noah founder and CEO Shah Ramezani on why stablecoins are a payments story rather than a crypto one, and why the real prize is making the technology invisible to the businesses that use it.
1 SEP 2026
The UK government plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in payment systems and emerging forms of digital money, including stablecoins, through an amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
28 AUG 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority published research on 27 August 2026 showing that 44% of young UK investors wrongly believe AI-generated financial information is regulated, even as more of them said they trust AI tools than trust television, the press or social media influencers.
27 AUG 2026
Money mule detection fails because evidence sits across banks, telecoms and merchants. See the FCA and Cifas data behind it.
24 AUG 2026
More and more businesses want to own their payments rather than hand the whole process to someone else.
24 AUG 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority and HTX, a cryptocurrency exchange already under UK and EU sanctions, have opened talks to settle a lawsuit accusing the platform of illegally marketing crypto services to UK consumers, according to court filings first reported by Reuters.
14 AUG 2026
EIP chief executive Ross Sinclair on parametric insurance and why AI-accelerated coding lets EIP bet on new products like a venture capital firm.
11 AUG 2026
