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Mastercard launched the first Jaywan co-badged credit card a day after the UAE scheme's national debut. Read …
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Core42 now powers both the Central Bank of the UAE's sovereign cloud mandate for licensed institutions and a …
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A five-year, multimillion-dollar deal makes Visa the sole card network behind Sav's UAE and Saudi Arabia busi…
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What is payment orchestration? Learn how it routes payments, retries failures, secures card data, and unifies…
VARA approval lets Revolut offer broker-dealer and exchange services in Dubai, completing its UAE licence sta…
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The consumer headline on 15 July was exclusion: how many current users the affordability checks might price o…
HM Treasury's two AI Champions have published a plan setting out how the government, regulators and financial…
EMBARGO: Silverflow data held until 08:00 CEST, 16 July 2026. Internal review copy — do not publish before th…
Three announcements, one bet: open banking gets a permanent legislative home, stablecoins get transatlantic a…
Britain's dormant cash pile is a friction problem, not a rates or awareness problem. Higher rates have alread…
FedNow real time payments bring 24/7 instant settlement, but not chargebacks or built-in fraud protection. Le…
Learn the payment orchestration platform features merchants need most—uptime, smart routing, integrations, re…
The Dubai buy now, pay later group has launched a zero-fee money account under a new central bank licence, it…
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Nuvei, ThetaRay, the Payments Association, Premialab and Cerity Partners announce senior fintech and payments…
Compare the best payment orchestration platforms with a fair scorecard, demo questions, and key tradeoffs to …
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) will phase out proprietary QR payment networks by 30 June 2028. The requirement si…
A new BCG report maps 10 capabilities separating AI-first retail banks, from agentic underwriting to voice-bo…
FATF warns stablecoins are now the leading virtual asset for illicit transactions, with unhosted wallets expo…
Disbursement cards are booming, but the real value is shifting to routing layers that move payouts across car…
IG launched same-day SpaceX options before exchanges could, showing how CFD wrappers let brokers move faster …
Fractional dealing is spreading through UK adviser and wealth platforms, but lower minimum trades do not nece…
Insurtech funding returned in Q1 2026, but capital is now flowing into AI infrastructure and incumbent-facing…
Most crypto firms may struggle to clear FCA authorisation as the UK’s new regime raises the bar beyond AML re…
Open USD brings 140 payments and fintech firms into a shared stablecoin utility, shifting the fight from coin…
