All articles by Vidhya Edwards Munnangi
Vidhya Edwards Munnangi
Ant Group offloads 4% stake in Indian payments firm Paytm
The shares were sold at a price of Rs823.10($9.6) each, marking a 5% discount to Paytm’s closing price on 12 May 2025.
Adyen and JCB roll out card-on-file tokenisation service
This service replaces sensitive card details with a “secure” token to reduce the risk of data breaches.
ACI Worldwide swings backs to profit in Q1 2025
The company’s operating income stood at $58.5m for the quarter ended 31 March 2025, up from $9.5m in Q1 2024.
FlexFactor, Valor PayTech join forces to lower payment declines
This alliance aims to enable merchants using Valor PayTech’s solutions to integrate FlexFactor’s decline recovery service.
Paysafe expands tie-up with Fiserv to support SMBs
In the US, the partnership will see the launch of a digital wallet within Fiserv’s Clover merchant base.
EBANX adds UPI Autopay for cross-border payments
The move helps cross-border e-commerce merchants leverage the recurring payments feature of UPI for their clients in the country.
Borderless.xyz network expands with River.app
This move aims to provide financial institutions with enhanced capabilities for stablecoin to fiat transactions across a network of over 25 countries.
XTransfer gains EMI licence from Dutch central bank
The licence enables the company to officially launch financial services in the Netherlands.
Stripe unveils AI foundation model for payments and stablecoin accounts
Payments Foundation Model, trained on tens of billions of transactions, can identify hundreds of nuanced signals for a payment.
Coinbase rolls out new protocol for stablecoin payments
x402 is an open standard that revitalises the original HTTP “402 Payment Required” status code to embed stablecoin payments into web interactions.