September 2025 – Page 10

Citi and U.S. Bank Customers Gain Exclusive Early Access to Mastercard Agent Pay

Citi and US Bank customers will be the first to access Mastercard's agentic payments technology prior to a global rollout. Unveiled in April, Mastercard's Agent...

Portugal’s Sibs Acquires Polish Payments Company ITCard

Portuguese payments processor Sibs is expanding its footprint in Central Europe by acquiring Poland's ITCard. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ITCard is...

Paytently and Mastercard Collaborate on Open Banking Payments

Payments orchestration platform Paytently has introduced an innovative account-to-account payment service leveraging open banking technology from Mastercard. Paytently Open Banking, powered by Mastercard Open Finance,...

Alipay Launches AI Technology for Coffee Ordering with Luckin App

Singaporean mobile coffee ordering app Luckin Coffee has integrated with Alipay's AI agent for seamless ordering and payments through a conversational interface. In a chat...

BoE Invites Industry Participants to Join New Retail Payments Infrastructure Board

The Bank of England is inviting senior leaders from banks, fintech companies, and merchants to join the newly established Retail Payments Infrastructure Board (RPIB). The...

WFE Issues Advisory on 24/7 Trading Activities

Securities market participants must adapt their operations to accommodate a transition to 24/7 trading. This warning, issued by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), emerges...

Zelle Owner Explores Development of Its Own Stablecoin

Early Warning Services (EWS), the bank-owned organization behind the P2P payment service Zelle, may soon issue its own stablecoin, according to reports. Citing sources, Yahoo!...

UK Public Sector ‘Completely Unfamiliar’ with Blockchain

Public servants in the UK are largely unfamiliar with blockchain technology and see little use for it in the current financial system, according to a...

The GENIUS Act Makes Waves: An In-Depth Overview

In July 2025, the US enacted the GENIUS Act, establishing the nation’s first federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, paving the way for innovation in both...

Tether Launches New US Stablecoin

Tether has appointed Bo Hines, the former executive director of the White House Crypto Council, to lead the launch of a new US-regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin...