Tag: EU

The Central Bank of Iceland is exploring a new payments infrastructure that would enable account-to-account (A2A) payments for goods and ...

Artificial intelligence agents are poised to shoulder a larger role in retail, prompting the payments industry to prepare for their ...

Regulators in the UK are pushing Apple to open access to its contactless payment technology, allowing users to tap into ...

Crypto exchange Kraken’s parent company, Payward, is moving deeper into traditional banking with an agreement to acquire Saldo Bank, a ...

After a major blackout disrupted payment services across Spain and Portugal in 2025, affecting more than 50 million payment outlets, ...

A coalition of European payment providers is establishing the European Network for Payments (ENP), a new network designed to connect ...

The European Central Bank has launched Pontes, a new system designed to let banks settle tokenized assets using central bank ...

U.S. dollars back nearly every stablecoin on the market, but there are signs that non-USD tokens are gaining traction. In ...

It’s a truism in business that the CFO's mandate only moves in one direction: It expands over time. A CFO's ...

The U.S. dollar has long anchored the global financial system, while Visa and Mastercard have powered much of the world’s ...