Emerging Payments

Mastercard is putting a payment card in the hands of AI agents. Through a collaboration with Alchemy, the company is...

Few payment systems have grown as quickly—or become as central to everyday commerce—as India’s United Payment Interface (UPI). The real-time...

When the UK first floated plans for a payments network built for the digital economy, the obvious question was whether...

Latin America's payments landscape presents a paradox: some of the world’s most advanced payment systems are emerging in a region...

Some of the largest payments companies in the world are preparing for a future in which consumers entrust artificial agents...

Fintechs have expanded their financial services offerings to the point where many now resemble traditional financial institutions, but securing a...

More than 1,700 financial institutions have joined FedNow—the U.S. Federal Reserve’s instant payments system—in the just over three years since...

Two much-discussed payment trends are at the forefront of the emerging payments ecosystem this year. Biometrics are becoming an everyday...

Anthropic has launched a blueprint to help retailers build AI shopping and merchant agents on Claude, with the goal of...

WhatsApp gained traction in India by providing a free messaging alternative to the relatively expensive SMS and voice services that...