Interview with Karolina Aleksandrova, ProMoney Founder & Organiser of the Baltic Payment Forum
PaySpace Magazine Global interviewed Karolina Aleksandrova, founder of ProMoney and the driving force behind the Baltic Payment Forum held in Vilnius on March 3, 2026. The event marked the fourth consecutive year the forum attracted more than 300 C‑level executives from the global payments ecosystem. Participants explored cross‑border fintech collaboration, regulatory harmonisation, and emerging technologies reshaping the industry. Aleksandrova highlighted ProMoney’s role in showcasing innovative B2B payment solutions and fostering regional partnerships.
OPay Clarifies Reports on Alleged Office Closure by the Nigeria Revenue Service
OPay refutes online claims that its Lagos and Abuja offices were sealed by the Nigeria Revenue Service over alleged tax violations. The company confirms all locations remain open and fully operational. It explains the rumor originated from an NRS industry‑wide...
The Future of Money in Canada: Stablecoins, Custody, and Crypto Rails with Didier Lavallée of Tetra Digital Group
In this episode, Matt Cohen talks with Didier Lavallée, founder and CEO of Tetra Digital Group, about the evolution of regulated digital asset custody in Canada and the launch of CADD, a fiat‑backed stablecoin. Lavallée explains how Tetra’s Canada‑based custodial...
Akurateco Payment Hub Partners with Kushki to Expand PSP Access Across Latin America
Payment infrastructure provider Akurateco announced a strategic partnership with Latin American payments firm Kushki to broaden PSP connectivity across the region. The deal integrates Kushki’s suite of local payment rails into Akurateco’s Payment Hub, giving merchants, PSPs and fintechs a...
Socure Launch Enables Startups to Deploy Identity Verification and Fraud Controls
Socure introduced Socure Launch, a plug‑and‑play identity verification and fraud‑prevention suite built on its RiskOS platform. The service lets developers activate enterprise‑grade risk controls within minutes, bypassing weeks of custom development. It targets early‑stage fintech, crypto, gaming, marketplace and e‑commerce...
Zelle Ventures Into Charitable Disbursements with Bank of America
Zelle has partnered with Bank of America to launch a charitable‑disbursement service for donor‑advised funds, replacing slow ACH and check processes with instant transfers. The proof‑of‑concept uses BofA’s Charitable Gift Fund, which last year distributed over $1.3 billion through more than...
Zelle and BofA Team up and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/12/26
Zelle has partnered with Bank of America to route charitable disbursements from donor‑advised funds through its network, delivering near‑real‑time grant payments to nonprofits. ACI Worldwide reports only 26% of bill‑pay platforms consider themselves future‑ready, though 80% view the technology as...
ECB Embraces Tokenized Securities with 2026 DLT Rollout
🔥 Product-Market Fit so strong, even the stablecoin-skeptical European Central Bank is planning tokenized securities. Pontes (Short-term Solution): A technical distributed ledger technology solution scheduled to launch in Q3 2026. It will allow market participants to settle transactions in central bank money using...
Napier AI Launches Insights AI in Transaction Monitoring
Napier AI has introduced Insights AI within its transaction‑monitoring platform after rigorous testing in the FCA’s Supercharged Sandbox. The feature injects behavioural analytics and natural‑language explanations directly into alerts, cutting manual investigation time. Built on Project Theseus, the frequency‑based AI...
How Zip Turned the Most Pressing BNPL Challenge Into a Brand Advantage
Australian BNPL firm Zip launched a new brand platform, “In You We Trust,” and the accompanying “You Trust Me?” ad campaign. The campaign puts trust front‑and‑center, humorously showing Zip repeatedly affirming confidence in customers. By making trust the core message,...
Best Bitcoin Treasury Solutions for Startups
Startups are increasingly adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets as a hedge against inflation, a diversification tool, and a signal of innovation. The article outlines the core components of a Bitcoin treasury, including purchase timing, secure storage, and regulatory compliance....
New PixRevolution Malware Steals Brazil’s PIX Transfers in Real Time
Brazil’s instant payment platform PIX, handling billions of transactions monthly, is being targeted by a new Android malware called PixRevolution. The threat uses an agent‑in‑the‑loop model, displaying a fake loading screen while a human or AI operator swaps the recipient’s...
85 Crypto Giants, One Payments Network, Zero Fake Press Releases
Mastercard has launched a Crypto Partner Program that brings together more than 85 crypto‑native companies, payment providers and financial institutions, including Binance, Circle, PayPal and Ripple. The initiative focuses on building real‑world use cases such as cross‑border remittances, B2B transfers...
The Signal: Embedded Finance - From Fragmented To Unified with Jaris Executives, Chris Aristides and Matt Thomas | Episode 474
In this episode, Greg Myers talks with Jaris co‑founder Chris Aristides and VP Matt Thomas about how payment processors and ISOs can move from a fragmented vendor stack to a unified embedded‑finance ecosystem. They explain Jaris’s “foundation‑first” approach—building a bank‑backed,...
Mambu Powers Nyla’s Islamic Neobank Launch in Ghana
Mambu has partnered with Nyla, Africa’s first Islamic neobank, to supply an API‑first, AWS‑hosted core banking platform for its Ghana launch slated for June 2026. The collaboration enables Nyla to roll out digital wallets, peer‑to‑peer transfers and bill payments without...
TD Bank Expands Embedded Banking with Workday Integration for U.S. Business Clients
TD Bank announced a new embedded banking solution that integrates directly with Workday’s cloud‑based ERP for U.S. business clients. The service lets companies access credit, payments and cash‑management tools within Workday’s workflow, reducing manual hand‑offs. Early adopters will receive a...
Fintech Firms Accelerate Account Wins as Digital Momentum Reshapes Banking Competition
Fintech challengers are adding new banking and investment accounts faster than traditional banks, driven by streamlined digital onboarding and mobile‑first experiences. The J.D. Power report shows mass‑market customers gravitating toward neobanks, with Chime leading checking‑account acquisition and SoFi posting the...
European Fintechs Remain Reliant on US Investors, but Sovereignty Gap Is Closing
Finch Capital’s latest report reveals that Europe’s fintechs remain heavily dependent on US investors for later‑stage financing, with all rounds above €1 bn in the past five years led by US capital. Without that support, a €9 bn funding gap would emerge,...
Hands In and UATP Partner to Bring Split Payments to the Global Airline Industry
UK‑based split‑payment provider Hands In has partnered with global airline payment network UATP to embed its split‑payment API into UATP’s Ceptor platform. The integration lets airlines offer travellers the ability to combine multiple cards, payers and payment methods at checkout...
Swaminathan J: Digitalisation for Inclusive Finance and Sustainability - Priorities for the Next Phase
Professor Partha Ray closed the International Conference on Digitalisation for Inclusive Finance and Sustainability by emphasizing that digital tools are means, not ends. He identified three strategic shifts: moving from mere access to capability and confidence, from fast to fair...
Agentic AI and the New Governance Challenge for Treasurers
Agentic AI is moving from experimental chatbots to autonomous digital deputies that execute trade‑finance workflows without human prompting. In 2026 treasurers see agents handling document orchestration, real‑time payment interventions, and cross‑system data writes, dramatically speeding up back‑office operations. The technology...
Lloyds Banking App ‘Glitch’ Shows Transactions of Strangers
Lloyds Banking Group’s mobile apps briefly displayed other customers’ transaction histories on the morning of 12 March 2026. The glitch affected users of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland apps before being resolved within minutes. The incident has reignited parliamentary...
Revolut Secures Full UK Banking License, Enables Loans
Revolut at last launches as an authorised UK bank - UKTN After five years of intense scrutiny, Revolut has officially exited the mobilisation phase and received its full UK banking license today. This allows Revolut to offer FSCS-protected deposits (up...
Banks Use AI to Make Credit Card Rewards More Personal
Banks and payment networks are deploying artificial intelligence to reshape credit‑card rewards, moving the battle from the checkout to an AI‑driven offers feed. By mining transaction histories and behavioral signals, issuers can generate merchant discounts and category bonuses that match...
AI Rebuilds Trust by Linking Evidence, Not Surveillance
AI could become one of the most powerful tools in the fight against financial crime, not by expanding surveillance, but by rebuilding integrity into digital systems. If AI can create stronger evidence chains that connect documents, actions and transactions, it can...
Bilt's Simple Redemption Turns 30¢ Into $1
The Best Bilt Cash Redemption Is The Most Boring — But It Turns 30 Cents Into A Dollar - View from the Wing https://t.co/z6kxNi1nO9
Banking on the Cloud
Amazon Web Services’ 2026 "Banking on the Cloud" report declares cloud computing a strategic foundation for modern banks. It outlines six trends—agentic AI, hyper‑personalised experiences, unified data platforms, ecosystem banking, resilient infrastructure, and modular architectures—that together reshape operations and product...
Nevermined AI: The Original Slim Shady of Payments
Watch this space. @Nevermined_ai is the OG Slim Shady of AI agent payments All the other Slim Shadies will need to sit down.
Link Your Brokerage via Plaid for AI‑Powered Insights
Are you ready to share everything? Connect your brokerage account to Perplexity with the help of Plaid (no derivatives) and feel AI-powered. What kind of Trust do you need to get there, and what is your motivation?
Fintechs Expanding Between Kenya and Rwanda May Soon Need One Licence
Kenya’s central bank and Rwanda’s national bank have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a licence‑passporting framework for payment service providers. The arrangement would let fintech firms licensed in one country operate in the other without obtaining a new...
Banking Apps Leaked Other Customers' Transaction Details
Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax apps showed customers other users' transactions https://t.co/eOyyiGggxP Can an informed person explain what actually went wrong here? I am so curious https://t.co/RE7RR6W41z
Connamara Technologies Engages Exactpro as Independent Testing Provider for EP3®
Connamara Technologies has hired Exactpro to perform independent, third‑party testing of its EP3® exchange and clearinghouse platform. EP3 currently powers thirteen exchanges and three clearinghouses, handling both traditional and emerging asset classes. Exactpro will execute functional, non‑functional, and performance tests...
Tokenization Unlocks Liquidity for $2T Private Credit Market
Private credit is a ~$2 Trillion market and growing. Now 5 major private credit funds halted redemptions. The assets are illiquid but investors expect liquidity and price discovery. This is exactly what tokenization solves.
AI Disruption Will Come From Native Firms, Not Incumbents
Great piece by @davideoks about the real story around ATMs & bank tellers (TLDR mobile banking is what actually hurt the profession) Analogy is the impact of AI may not be from incumbent AI adoption but simply from AI native cos...
Rocket Pro's Niemiec Plans to Win Brokers with ‘True Partnership’
Rocket Pro’s chief revenue officer Austin Niemiec announced a partnership‑first strategy aimed at easing long‑standing tension between the two wholesale mortgage giants, United Wholesale Mortgage and Rocket. He highlighted the company’s new technology platform, which lets brokers retain full data ownership...
Wells Fargo Launches Own Stablecoin, Banks Gamble with Deposits
Wells Fargo just filed for the “WFUSD” trademark, which is basically their own dollar-backed stablecoins The Banks and financial institutions hate you, but love your deposits, they can gamble with and your tax dollars that bail them out when they lose...
Aave Aims to Be Crypto JPMorgan; Morpho Powers It
"Aave is aspiring to become the JPMorgan of the world while Morpho is aspires to become infrastructure for JPMorgan" @PaulFrambot https://t.co/iSjFuEDUZe
India Neobank Fi Winds Down Banking Services on Its Platform
India’s neobank Fi is winding down the banking layer of its platform after four years of partnership with Federal Bank. The move forces its 3.5 million customers to access their savings accounts via Federal Bank’s FedMobile app instead of Fi’s interface....
Creating Universal Financing Infrastructure for Open Underwriting
"We want to build financing infrastructure ... that allows anyone to underwrite anyone" @PaulFram https://t.co/Cc4ufu0Lcr
Institutions Aim to Own DeFi End‑to‑end Stack
"[Institutions] think of DeFi as the opportunity for them to extend and own end-to-end the product they offer from distribution to infrastructure" @PaulFrambot https://t.co/iSjFuEDUZe
Market Maker Virtu Expands OTC Crypto Pricing via New Talos Partnership
Virtu Financial announced integration with Talos, enabling streaming of spot digital‑asset liquidity to institutional clients. The partnership extends Virtu’s over‑the‑counter (OTC) crypto pricing capabilities and adds its liquidity to Talos’s provider network. Virtu, a long‑standing principal market maker across equities,...
Tokenizing Assets Fuels Broader Lending Opportunities
"As more assets get tokenized, you can do more lending against it and therefore it becomes more useful to tokenize more assets" @syrupsid https://t.co/iSjFuEDUZe
Syrup USDC and USDT Become Fastest Growing Products
"syrupUSDC and syrup USDT have been the fastest growing product that we have" @syrupsid https://t.co/iSjFuEDUZe
PayPal Pivots for 2026
PayPal Holdings announced a strategic pivot for 2026, concentrating on strengthening its branded checkout services. Chief financial and operating officer Jamie Miller said the company will shift from broad portfolio scaling to a targeted approach that supports its largest merchants....
DeFi's Next Phase: Institutional-Grade Lending & Stablecoins
Up next on Unchained • Private credit vs regular DeFi lending • The role of stablecoins in global finance • Why the next phase of DeFi will focus on institutional-grade lending markets. Come join us! https://t.co/Cc4ufu0Lcr
New Zealand Regulator to Broaden FinTech Sandbox, Develop New “On-Ramp” License
New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority announced an expansion of its fintech sandbox, extending controlled market access beyond the initial six‑firm pilot. The regulator is also drafting an “on‑ramp” restricted licence that lets innovative firms enter the market under defined conditions,...
Lower Mortgage Review 2026
Lower Mortgage, formerly AmeriHome, offers a wide array of loan products across 100 locations in 47 states, but many options are not listed online. In 2024 the lender posted a higher‑than‑median mortgage rate of 6.625 % and a total loan‑cost of...
Mastercard Boosts Agentic Commerce, Adds Crypto Network
Mastercard announced two strategic moves to broaden its revenue beyond card fees: a live agentic commerce test in Malaysia using its Agent Pay platform, and the launch of a global Crypto Partner Program that enlists over 85 cryptocurrency firms. The AI‑driven...
Solayer – Hardware Accelerated Finance at the Speed of Metal
In this episode, Andy Pickering talks with Joshua Sum, Chief Product Officer at Solayer, about the company's hardware‑accelerated blockchain built on Solana that aims to achieve ultra‑high throughput for real‑time financial transactions. Joshua explains Solayer's approach of separating consensus onto...
Tokenized Gold Enables Fractional, 24/7 Value Storage
Scarce assets give everyone a way to store value with little dilution. That's why we just added tokenized gold to our app. Each XAUT token represents one fine troy ounce of gold stored in Swiss vaults. Fractional ownership. 24/7 trading. No vault...