Hyundai 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 […]
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Huru, 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 […]
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Fintechs 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 […]
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Apple 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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If you want to understand where stablecoin adoption is really headed, Turkey is one of the clearest places to look. In this conversation, MEXC CEO Vugar Usi explains why stablecoins are growing not just because of crypto speculation, but because they solve immediate problems like inflation, foreign exchange access, and expensive cross-border payments. That matters […]
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The G20 has set targets for faster, cheaper and more reliable cross-border payments, but official progress reports show that most retail payments still fall well short of the speed goals. Moshe Kimhi, CEO and founder of Neema As pricing between providers converges, the question of whether a payment actually arrives, and how quickly, is becoming […]
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