Cryptocurrency is rapidly transitioning from a speculative investment vehicle into a functional, mainstream unit of payment. Nowhere is this shift more pronounced than in the regulated U.S. online sports betting market. According to a comprehensive research report released today by leading payments platform Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), an overwhelming 83 per cent of U.S. sports bettors […]
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In a major announcement during the opening days of Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, payments infrastructure titan Stripe and consumer credit network Affirm revealed they are expanding their domestic partnership across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom. Beginning in July, thousands of British e-commerce businesses operating on Stripe’s network will gain the ability to add Affirm’s […]
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The following looks at the fintech, digital and the wider economic development of nation of Greece in 2026. For much of the past decade, discussions about Greece’s economy were dominated by sovereign debt crises, austerity measures and financial instability. Yet the Greece of 2026 looks markedly different from the country that occupied headlines during the […]
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In a consolidation move within the European digital asset landscape, Penning, one of the first Danish crypto-asset service providers to secure a full license under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, has acquired the wealth-management business of Lithuanian crypto investment platform Veli. The newly absorbed unit will be rebranded as Penning Wealth and will […]
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Scale Regional Clearing and Secure Autonomous Transactions: Operational Shifts Emerge at Money20/20 Europe European payment networks, global FIs, and regulatory bodies transitioned rapidly from conceptual strategy to the operational realities of domestic interoperability, digital asset compliance, and real-time fraud mitigation during the second day of Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam. Driven by high ticket pricing, the […]
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Global fintech powerhouse Airwallex has launched Airwallex Billing, a modular revenue management platform designed to help cross-border enterprises manage their entire revenue lifecycle. By rolling out invoicing, subscription management, and native usage-based billing on a single unified platform, the $8billion cross-border payments leader is encroaching directly on Stripe’s core software business. The strategy behind the […]
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With the largest economy in Europe, the following looks at the fintech, digital and wider economic development of Germany in 2026. Germany has long been known for engineering excellence, industrial manufacturing and financial stability. Home to Europe’s largest economy (third globally behind the USA and China) and one of the world’s leading export powers, the […]
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The following looks at the fintech, digital and wider economic development of small Pacific Island nation of Kiribati. When discussing fintech, attention is often focused on major financial centres, rapidly growing startup ecosystems or digitally advanced economies. Kiribati fits none of these categories. Spread across 33 atolls and islands over a vast area of the […]
Explore MoreRewiring the Global Money Stack: Account-to-Account Rails, Native Stablecoins, and AI Agents Take Center Stage at Money20/20 Europe The opening day of Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam signaled a major transition as open banking networks, stablecoin settlement layers, and artificial intelligence infrastructure converged to challenge legacy payment rails. Convening at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, global […]
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Payments infrastructure platform COLIBRIX ONE has joined forces with technology innovation organisation BitGN to publish the comprehensive findings of ECOM1, a massive open benchmark designed to stress-test autonomous AI agents against real-world ecommerce and acquiring environments. The large-scale evaluation brought together more than 1,000 engineers across 100 cities, generating over 1.6 million scored trials and […]
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