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New article: Global Economic Shift — The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). A concise 4-minute read on how CBDCs could transform cross-border payments, reshape monetary policy, and disrupt traditional banking models. Essential reading for finance leaders and policy makers.

Read the full post: https://wix.to/cQNYBlZ

#CBDC
#Fintech
#Payments
#CentralBank
#MonetaryPolicy
#FinancialServices

Keir Starmer leaves door open to ditching his Brexit red lines – POLITICO

“The last government was defined by breaking our relationship with Europe. This Labour government will be defined by…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Brexit #CustomsUnion #Elections #Energy #EUsummit #Growth #KeirStarmer #opinion #Payments #Platforms #Security #SingleMarket #TopNews #TopStories #Trade #UnitedKingdom #UrsulavonderLeyen
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/578045/

Keir Starmer leaves door open to ditching his Brexit red lines – POLITICO

“The last government was defined by breaking our relationship with Europe. This Labour government will be defined by…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Brexit #CustomsUnion #Elections #Energy #EUsummit #growth #KeirStarmer #Opinion #payments #Platforms #Security #SingleMarket #Trade #UK #UnitedKingdom #UrsulavonderLeyen
https://www.newsbeep.com/532285/

Spain’s Bizum heads to the high street to take on Visa and Mastercard.

Spain’s payment app is making its biggest move yet, bringing account-to-account payments to the physical till and raising the stakes for US card giants.

What started as an interoperability experiment between Spanish banks has quietly become an ecosystem that has Brussels and New York paying close attention.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-spains-bizum-heads-to-the-high-street-to-take-on-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Banking #Bizum #Spain #Payments #Tech #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative #Visa #Mastercard

Spain’s Bizum heads to the high street to take on Visa and Mastercard.

Spain’s payment app is making its biggest move yet, bringing account-to-account payments to the physical till and raising the stakes for US card giants.

What started as an interoperability experiment between Spanish banks has quietly become an ecosystem that has Brussels and New York paying close attention.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-spains-bizum-heads-to-the-high-street-to-take-on-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Banking #Bizum #Spain #Payments #Tech #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative #Visa #Mastercard

Spain’s Bizum heads to the high street to take on Visa and Mastercard.

Spain’s payment app is making its biggest move yet, bringing account-to-account payments to the physical till and raising the stakes for US card giants.

What started as an interoperability experiment between Spanish banks has quietly become an ecosystem that has Brussels and New York paying close attention.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-spains-bizum-heads-to-the-high-street-to-take-on-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Banking #Bizum #Spain #Payments #Tech #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative #Visa #Mastercard

Spain’s Bizum heads to the high street to take on Visa and Mastercard.

Spain’s payment app is making its biggest move yet, bringing account-to-account payments to the physical till and raising the stakes for US card giants.

What started as an interoperability experiment between Spanish banks has quietly become an ecosystem that has Brussels and New York paying close attention.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-spains-bizum-heads-to-the-high-street-to-take-on-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Banking #Bizum #Spain #Payments #Tech #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative #Visa #Mastercard

Spain’s Bizum heads to the high street to take on Visa and Mastercard.

Spain’s payment app is making its biggest move yet, bringing account-to-account payments to the physical till and raising the stakes for US card giants.

What started as an interoperability experiment between Spanish banks has quietly become an ecosystem that has Brussels and New York paying close attention.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-spains-bizum-heads-to-the-high-street-to-take-on-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Banking #Bizum #Spain #Payments #Tech #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative #Visa #Mastercard

Europe seeks its own digital-payment systems to bypass US giants Visa and Mastercard.

Visa and Mastercard are global card systems that intermediate payments between a cardholder’s bank and a merchant’s bank. They process over half of all card payments in Europe.

The European Central Bank has been warning for some time that dependence on foreign card networks exposes Europe to political pressure or sudden disruptions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-europe-seeks-its-own-digital-payment-systems-to-bypass-us-giants-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Visa #Mastercard #EU #Payments #ECB #DigitalEuro

Europe seeks its own digital-payment systems to bypass US giants Visa and Mastercard.

Visa and Mastercard are global card systems that intermediate payments between a cardholder’s bank and a merchant’s bank. They process over half of all card payments in Europe.

The European Central Bank has been warning for some time that dependence on foreign card networks exposes Europe to political pressure or sudden disruptions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-europe-seeks-its-own-digital-payment-systems-to-bypass-us-giants-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Visa #Mastercard #EU #Payments #ECB #DigitalEuro

Europe seeks its own digital-payment systems to bypass US giants Visa and Mastercard.

Visa and Mastercard are global card systems that intermediate payments between a cardholder’s bank and a merchant’s bank. They process over half of all card payments in Europe.

The European Central Bank has been warning for some time that dependence on foreign card networks exposes Europe to political pressure or sudden disruptions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-europe-seeks-its-own-digital-payment-systems-to-bypass-us-giants-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Visa #Mastercard #EU #Payments #ECB #DigitalEuro

Europe seeks its own digital-payment systems to bypass US giants Visa and Mastercard.

Visa and Mastercard are global card systems that intermediate payments between a cardholder’s bank and a merchant’s bank. They process over half of all card payments in Europe.

The European Central Bank has been warning for some time that dependence on foreign card networks exposes Europe to political pressure or sudden disruptions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-europe-seeks-its-own-digital-payment-systems-to-bypass-us-giants-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Visa #Mastercard #EU #Payments #ECB #DigitalEuro

Europe seeks its own digital-payment systems to bypass US giants Visa and Mastercard.

Visa and Mastercard are global card systems that intermediate payments between a cardholder’s bank and a merchant’s bank. They process over half of all card payments in Europe.

The European Central Bank has been warning for some time that dependence on foreign card networks exposes Europe to political pressure or sudden disruptions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-europe-seeks-its-own-digital-payment-systems-to-bypass-us-giants-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Visa #Mastercard #EU #Payments #ECB #DigitalEuro

https://www.europesays.com/people/60968/ Hungary, EU split over how much of its €10B funding it should get – POLITICO #Banks #Breaches #conflict #Debt #Elections #Hungary #InterestRates #MEPs #Negotiations #Payments #Pensions #PeterMagyar #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #ViktorOrbán

Hungary, EU split over how much of its €10B funding it should get – POLITICO

But despite the good intentions, Brussels and Budapest are at odds over how much money Hungary should get…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #banks #Breaches #Conflict #debt #Elections #Hungary #interestrates #MEPs #Negotiations #Payments #Pensions #PéterMagyar #UrsulavonderLeyen #ViktorOrbán
https://www.europesays.com/europe/34430/

https://www.europesays.com/be/14532/ Hungary, EU split over how much of its €10B funding it should get – POLITICO #Banks #Breaches #Brussels #Conflict #Debt #elections #Hungary #InterestRates #MEPs #Negotiations #Payments #Pensions #PéterMagyar #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #ViktorOrban

https://www.europesays.com/dk/76968/ Hungary, EU split over how much of its €10B funding it should get – POLITICO #Banks #Belgium #Breaches #Brussels #Conflict #Debt #elections #Hungary #InterestRates #MEPs #Negotiations #Payments #pensions #PéterMagyar #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #ViktorOrban

https://www.europesays.com/ie/459694/ Now, All Insurance Payments Must Go Digital, No More Cash in Kuwait #all #cash #digital #Éire #go #IE #in #insurance #Ireland #Kuwait #Mobile #more #must #no #NOW #Payments #Technology

https://www.europesays.com/britain/13285/ UK fintech Wise to downgrade London listing this quarter #banking #Business #CapitalMarkets #CardPayments #CurrentAccount #DigitalPayments #FinancialMarkets #fintech #FintechInvestment #FintechUnicorn #ftse #FTSE100 #listing #ListingRules #London #LondonStockExchange #NewYork #NewYorkStockExchange #News #Payments #PaymentsSystem #UKEconomy #UkFintech #Wise

Swiss banks aren’t just testing a franc stablecoin. They’re testing whether domestic banks can shape the next layer of digital money before dollar tokens become the default rail. New piece: https://fintech.industryexaminer.com/swiss-banks-franc-stablecoin-not-dollars/
#Fintech #Stablecoins #Payments #Banking #Switzerland #DigitalMoney #TechNews #IndustryExaminer

https://www.europesays.com/ch/45862/ Geneva Industrial Development Agency moves closer to providing tax breaks for South Exchange Street housing project | Business #Economy #EconomyOfTheUnitedStates #finance #Geneva #GovernmentFinances #money #mortgage #payments #PropertyTax #PublicFinance #tax #TaxBreak #TaxExemption #Taxation

MTN Ghana Spins Off MoMo Into a Standalone Fintech Company
#NFiles #Payments #AfricanPayments #Ghana #Mobilepayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo
https://gtechbooster.com/mtn-ghana-spins-off-momo-into-a-standalone-fintech-company/?fsp_sid=1181

https://www.europesays.com/africa/141745/ Vodacom, Paymentology launch tap-to-pay in Tanzania #AccessBank #AndroidTapToPay #LibertyGroup #MPesa #MamaMoney #massmart #MobileMoney #MobilePayments #MobileMoneyMarketAfrica #mukuru #Paymentology #payments #PickNPay #Safaricom #Santam #spar #StandardBank #Tanzania #TapToPay #Vodacom #VodacomTanzania

Inside Iran’s payments system | PaymentsSource

Key insights: Fifty years of sanctions has forced Iran to develop its own isolated financial system. But money…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mobile #creditcards #DigitalPayments #Payments #PSOcontent #PushNotificationTopStory #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/508035/

Sui launches native USDsui stablecoin for payments and DeFi

https://misryoum.com/us/markets/sui-launches-native-usdsui-stablecoin-for-payments-and/

The Sui Foundation has introduced USDsui, a native stablecoin built to power digital payments and decentralized finance across the Sui network. Summary Sui Foundation and Bridge launched USDsui on mainnet on March 4, 2026. The stablecoin is issued through Stripe’s infrastructure and supports...

#Sui #launches #native #USDsui #stablecoin #for #payments #and #DeFi #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Can Hillsborough and Tampa afford to pay for a Rays stadium? | Hillsborough County https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/597183/ #Baseball #Bond(finance) #Economy #fee #Finance #Florida #GeorgeMSteinbrennerField #GovernmentFinances #HillsboroughCollege #HillsboroughCounty #interest #InterestRate #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #money #MunicipalBond #payments #PublicFinance #RaymondJamesStadium #Rays #Sports #stadium #Tampa #TampaBay #TampaBayRays #TampaBay #TampaBayRays #tax

Can Hillsborough and Tampa afford to pay for a Rays stadium? | Hillsborough County https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/597183/ #Baseball #Bond(finance) #Economy #fee #Finance #Florida #GeorgeMSteinbrennerField #GovernmentFinances #HillsboroughCollege #HillsboroughCounty #interest #InterestRate #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #money #MunicipalBond #payments #PublicFinance #RaymondJamesStadium #Rays #Sports #stadium #Tampa #TampaBay #TampaBayRays #TampaBay #TampaBayRays #tax

NZ Super payments should be deferred to 72, with a lower pension paid from 65 – Richard Prebble

In 1976, there were about eight working-age New Zealanders for every person over 65. Today, the ratio is…
#NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance #65% #72 #AU #Australia #be #Business #deferred #facts #Finance #from #lower #nz #paid #payments #Pension #PersonalFinance #prebble #richard #should #super #To #with
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/502600/

NZ Super payments should be deferred to 72, with a lower pension paid from 65 – Richard Prebble

In 1976, there were about eight working-age New Zealanders for every person over 65. Today, the ratio is…
#NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance #65% #72 #AU #Australia #be #Business #deferred #facts #Finance #from #lower #nz #paid #payments #Pension #PersonalFinance #prebble #richard #should #super #To #with
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/502600/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/355020/ NZ Super payments should be deferred to 72, with a lower pension paid from 65 – Richard Prebble #65% #72 #be #Business #deferred #Éire #facts #from #IE #Ireland #lower #nz #paid #Payments #PENSION #PersonalFinance #PersonalFinance #prebble #Richard #should #super #To #with

Digital payments are electronic transfers of value using digital channels, without physical currency. They include card transactions, mobile wallets, bank transfers, and peer-to-peer payment systems.

#DigitalPayments #Fintech #Payments

Japanese app PayPay announces US IPO and Visa partnership | PaymentsSource

Key insight: A Japanese payments app is seeking U.S. fintech investor capital through what is estimated to be a $2 billion IPO.Supporting data: Seventy-five percent of …
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AB-Technology #Banktechnology #fintech #IPOs #Japanese #Japanesenews #Mobilepayments #news #Payments #PSOcontent #technology
https://www.alojapan.com/1453392/japanese-app-paypay-announces-us-ipo-and-visa-partnership-paymentssource/

Japanese app PayPay announces US IPO and Visa partnership | PaymentsSource

Key insight: A Japanese payments app is seeking U.S. fintech investor capital through what is estimated to be a $2 billion IPO.Supporting data: Seventy-five percent of …
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AB-Technology #Banktechnology #fintech #IPOs #Japanese #Japanesenews #Mobilepayments #news #Payments #PSOcontent #technology
https://www.alojapan.com/1453392/japanese-app-paypay-announces-us-ipo-and-visa-partnership-paymentssource/

https://www.alojapan.com/1453392/japanese-app-paypay-announces-us-ipo-and-visa-partnership-paymentssource/ Japanese app PayPay announces US IPO and Visa partnership | PaymentsSource #ABTechnology #BankTechnology #fintech #IPOs #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MobilePayments #news #Payments #PSOContent #technology Key insight: A Japanese payments app is seeking U.S. fintech investor capital through what is estimated to be a $2 billion IPO.Supporting data: Seventy-five percent of Japan’s smartphone owners are registered PayPay users.Forwar

https://www.alojapan.com/1453392/japanese-app-paypay-announces-us-ipo-and-visa-partnership-paymentssource/ Japanese app PayPay announces US IPO and Visa partnership | PaymentsSource #ABTechnology #BankTechnology #fintech #IPOs #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MobilePayments #news #Payments #PSOContent #technology Key insight: A Japanese payments app is seeking U.S. fintech investor capital through what is estimated to be a $2 billion IPO.Supporting data: Seventy-five percent of Japan’s smartphone owners are registered PayPay users.Forwar

#TIL about Cashu, a protocol for e-cash, *without* a distributed but centralised public ledger of transactions;

"Ecash transactions between users or service providers respect the user's privacy. A mint does not store a database of user accounts and their activity which protects users from leaks or hacks and can provide stronger censorship resistance than classical payment systems."

https://cashu.space/

Curious to know how this compares to InterLedger.

#payments #DigitalPayments #ECash

Why Modern Fintechs Are Switching to a Payments Orchestration Platform in 2026
#Tuch #Business #Fintech #Payments #Banking #PaymentOrchestration #FintechTrends #DigitalPayments #FinancialTech #PaymentsInfrastructure #GlobalPayments #TechStrategy
https://the-14.com/why-modern-fintechs-are-switching-to-a-payments-orchestration-platform-in-2026/

Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-declared-war-against-big-tech-digital-sovereignty/
#ycombinator #Big_Tech #Buildings #Companies #Competition #Copyright #Critical_infrastructure #Data #Data_protection #Democracy #Denmark #digital #Education #Germany #Higher_education #Industry #Infrastructure #Insurance #Markets #Media #Negotiations #Payments #Privacy #Publishers #Safety #Services #Startups #Tariffs #Technology #United_States #Welfare

JS vs PHP Idempotency Vault: Stop Double Charges

One key, one charge. No more panic refunds.

#php #javascript #idempotency #doublecharges #payments #refunds #viralcoding #codecomparison #backendsafety #reliability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHat-px8rA

📊#SoFi’s new stablecoin SoFiUSD isn’t just another token — it’s a bank-issued dollar built for 24/7 settlement and fintech infrastructure. Our deep analysis explains why this could redefine programmable money. 🔗 industryexaminer.com/sofiusd-when-a-bank-turns-digital-dollars-into-infrastructure/ #Fintech #Stablecoins #Payments #SoFiUSD #BankingTech #TechNews

How to reactivate your Paystack account and avoid dormancy
#Payments #Dormancy #Mobilepayments #Paystack
https://gtechbooster.com/how-to-reactivate-your-paystack-account-and-avoid-dormancy/?fsp_sid=451

Tangem Pay Launches to Let Users Spend USDC with Visa Virtual Card - TLDR:

Tangem Pay lets users spend Polygon-based USDC using a Visa virtual card tied to t... - https://blockonomi.com/tangem-pay-launches-to-let-users-spend-usdc-with-visa-virtual-card/ #stablecoins #regulation #payments #fintech #polygon #wallets #crypto #defi #mica #rain #usdc #visa

Wall Street Bank Citi, Coinbase Partner to Expand Digital Asset Payments - The bank is working with Coinbase to streamline digital asset payments for institutional ... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/27/wall-street-bank-citi-coinbase-partner-to-expand-digital-asset-payments #stablecoins #coinbase #payments #finance #citi #news

Square Bitcoin Debuts as Block’s First Fully Integrated Bitcoin Payments and Wallet Solution - Block is expanding Square’s platform with fee-free bitcoin payments, seamless cryp... - https://news.bitcoin.com/square-bitcoin-debuts-as-blocks-first-fully-integrated-bitcoin-payments-and-wallet-solution/ #bitcoin(btc) #merchants #featured #payments

Citi Joins Visa in Backing Stablecoin Payments Company BVNK - The venture arm of the U.S. multinational bank Citigroup (C) made a strategic investment ... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/09/citi-joins-visa-in-backing-stablecoin-payments-company-bvnk #citiventures #stablecoins #payments #finance #citi #news

Coinflow Raises $25M to Scale Stablecoin Payments, Backed by Pantera and Coinbase - Stablecoin payments startup Coinflow has raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Pa... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/08/coinflow-raises-usd25m-to-scale-stablecoin-payments-backed-by-pantera-and-coinbase #fundingrounds #stablecoins #merchants #payments #finance #news

OKX SG Brings Stablecoin Payments to Grab With StraitsX Settlement Rails - TLDR:

OKX SG, Grab, and StraitsX launch Singapore’s first stablecoin scan-to-pay service... - https://blockonomi.com/okx-sg-brings-stablecoin-payments-to-grab-with-straitsx-settlement-rails/ #cryptoadoption #stablecoins #exchanges #singapore #payments #straitsx #grabpay #grab #usdc #usdt #okx

Will you be using your AI agent for payment? Google thinks yes.

Google is rolling out AP2 - an open, shared protocol that provides a common language for secure, compliant transactions between agents and merchants. It supports different payment types–from credit and debit cards to stablecoins and real-time bank transfers. It supports 2 shopping modes: "Real-time purchases" (human present), and "Delegated tasks" (human not present).

AP2 uses "Mandates"—tamper-proof, cryptographically-signed digital contracts that serve as verifiable proof of a user's instructions to establish trust. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol #AI #Google #AP2 #Payments #AIPayments #Shopping #PaymentSystems #CreditCard #StableCoins #Crypto #BankTransfers #Cryptography

Almost all of the online payment providers you interact with is backed by one of a handful of giant payment processors (eg PayPal and Stripe, or in China, AliPay and WeChatPay). That are essentially an API between you and the credit card company your card belongs to. That are, in turn. basically APIs between you and the company that hosts your bank accounts.

In other words, companies are squeezing on chokepoints between you and your bank.

(2/?)

#payments #OnlinePayments #ChokePointCapitalism

#UnitedHealth Group has avoided shareholder resolutions that would have asked investors at an upcoming meeting whether the company should audit how often it denies paying for members’ health care, following an outpouring of public anger last year.
One proposal from a group representing faith-based shareholders asked the Eden Prairie-based health care giant to develop a report on the human and economic toll that stems from limiting or delaying access to health care by #denying #payments via its insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare.
The proposal was withdrawn earlier this month, however, after UnitedHealth Group sought regulatory support for excluding the question from shareholder materials. Proponents said they believe they’ll have a better chance for success by re-submitting next year.

A second proposal sought third-party audits of denials to determine if correspondence with families included #factually #incorrect and #insensitive information. But UnitedHealth Groupsaid investor Chris Mueller missed the deadline for submissions.
👉Neither proposal was listed in materials distributed last week in advance of the UnitedHealth Group annual meeting scheduled for June 2,
when shareholders will vote on resolutions about #executive #compensation
⭐️including a new push for investors to approve “golden parachute” severance or termination payments.
https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/unitedhealth-group-avoids-shareholder-vote-on-coverage-denial-audits-in-wake-of-ceo-killing