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Payments industry M&A deals total $528.7m globally in January 2022

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Payments industry M&A deals total $528.7m globally in January 2022

The psychology of Gen Z spending in a frictionless world

Will agentic commerce push more merchants into marketplaces?

Open, modular, and orchestrated: changing the architecture of enterprise payments

Why banks should think beyond stablecoins

Why the UK is the place to go global for instalment payments

Why AI will reshape the economics of financial processing

Why payment cards are here to stay, joining forces with mobile wallets

When customers become the attack surface: Cognitive compromise at scale

A payment system is only as strong as its exception capacity

Cross-border payments are still not moving fast enough

Toll agencies lose billions to poor payment experiences, not unwillingness to pay

A payment is not complete when the message arrives

Instant payments: Done. What comes next?

The compliance wave reshaping cross-border trade

Open Banking has grown up – now businesses are choosing who they trust

Why authorised rates are payments’ next data battleground

Artificial intelligence is redefining where innovation happens

BNPL regulation won’t change the biggest thing BNPL created

Fraud wins when the payments industry defends alone

The $27tn trapped liquidity debate is about the wrong number

From holding caps to real-world use: the Bank of England’s stablecoin pivot is a payments story

Cross-border payments fail between institutions, not at the border

Your AI Agent just bought something, but who actually authorised the payment?

Market responds positively to Stripe, Advent bid for PayPal

Network tokenisation holds the key to next generation card transactions

One Europe, many payments: Cracking the code of growth in a fragmented market

European sovereignty is also a matter of payment infrastructure

The hidden cost of going global: Payments infrastructure debt

Why payments trust has to be built in, not bolted on

Why 99% of sanctions screening alerts are false positives

A question of value: What makes a premium card worth it?

What BNPL regulation means for retailers and how to prepare for July 2026

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