The Africa Blockchain Festival (ABF) 2026 will take place from 15 to 17 October in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together policymakers, investors, fintech leaders and technology innovators to discuss the continent’s growing blockchain and digital economy ecosystem. Africa’s growing role in blockchain, digital assets and financial technology will take centre stage when the Africa Blockchain Festival […]
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Emirates NBD has launched what it describes as the UAE’s first bank-led AI Travel Assistant, built in partnership with Visa and Tripadvisor. The conversational tool is accessible without a bank account or login, available free via the Emirates NBD website and a dedicated Tripadvisor domain, and is positioned by the bank as part of a […]
Explore MoreHyundai Card has launched the NAVER Hyundai Card Edition3, a co-branded credit card line developed in collaboration with CEKAI, a New York-Tokyo creative collective known for anamorphic 3D billboard work for Nike, BMW and Fendi. The release marks a deliberate departure from conventional card aesthetics, applying principles from large-format digital display design to a physical […]
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AI-generated voices are making phone-based fraud harder to catch, and insurers are under pressure to show how their operations are governed as well as their technology. As AI makes these scams more convincing, protecting customer data depends on the people, processes and systems that handle it every day. Norm Hudson, CEO at Staff Boom Norm […]
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More than a year into the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regime, the register of authorised crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) has become a shorthand for which member states are winning. On a count of licences, Germany is comfortably ahead. Konstantins Vasilenko, co-founder and CBDO at Paybis Konstantins Vasilenko is Co-Founder and CBDO at Paybis, a crypto […]
Explore MoreHuru, the Emirati-owned financial app licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE as a stored-value facility and retail payment services provider, has formalised two partnerships that it says will extend its platform from salary management into card payments on the UAE’s domestic scheme and regulated digital-asset brokerage. Both agreements were signed at the Seamless […]
Explore MoreFintechs are automating more of their customer support with AI, and the usual measure of success is how much contact no longer needs a person. In regulated financial services, a short customer message can carry vulnerability, fraud or consent issues that an automated answer is not equipped to handle. Anastasia Ioseliani previously worked at a […]
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Stablecoin card spending passed $1 billion a month in July and is forecast to reach $50 billion a year by 2028, according to research reported by Reuters in August. Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, CTO at BKN301 Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, chief technology officer at fintech infrastructure provider BKN301, argues that the familiar payment card, rather than a new wallet […]
Explore MoreApple has launched Apple Pay in India in partnership with Axis Bank, bringing the contactless payment service to iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch users across a market that has been dominated for nearly a decade by QR-code-based real-time payments. The move places Apple in direct competition with UPI, the National Payments Corporation of India’s interoperable […]
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International merchants expanding into Brazil, India, Kenya or Southeast Asia often treat payments as the last box to tick before launch, on the assumption that a card acquirer will do the job it does at home. Carlos Menendez, COO at dLocal In markets built on instant payment schemes and mobile money, that assumption can delay […]
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