All articles by Aninda Chakraborty

Aninda Chakraborty

Monzo and Fair4All Finance pilot Flex Build card for excluded borrowers

Under the pilot, eligible customers can receive a small credit limit of up to £250 with a one-time deposit.

OpenWay, Visa team up to accelerate bank payment product rollouts

The collaboration builds on Visa initiatives already supported on OpenWay’s Way4 platform.

FCA orders Euro Exchange Securities UK to halt payment services

Duncan Perring and James Bennett of Teneo Financial Advisory were appointed as interim managers to oversee the firm.

XTransfer and Societe Generale team up on cross-border payments

The cooperation is intended to support businesses operating from China into Europe and other global markets

Mastercard to add stablecoin, intraday and non-business day settlement options

Mastercard said Circle’s USDC is already being used for early on-chain settlement flows in select markets.

Blackstone weighs sale of Japan payments provider SP.LINKS – report

SoftBank Group’s telecom unit SoftBank Corp. is among the parties considering a bid for the Japanese payments firm.

DBS Singapore enables tap-to-phone card payments for merchants

The launch gives merchants more ways to accept payments amid “growing demand for cashless transactions”.

MoneyGram launches stablecoin in US

MGUSD will be integrated into the MoneyGram app through a self-custodial wallet.

Belgium investigates Wise Europe over anti-money laundering controls

The prosecutor’s office said the amount involved would exceed half a billion euros ($582.5m) in suspicious transactions.

Mastercard tests instant cross-currency payments on TIPS platform

Mastercard said the pilot is a “key milestone” in its strategy to build direct connectivity to payment infrastructures.