Recent news items from the Payments world
Payments world is emerging at a rapid pace and has seen dramatic shifts in consolidation over the last few years. newer payment rails are getting introduced into the market with interesting adoption trends. Localization rules along with country specific scheme rules have also increased. Emerging technologies are greatly influencing the payment experience and products being rolled out into the market. Enhancements in tokenization, digital federated identity, AI based real time fraud prevention models, automation and visibility for payment business observability, hyper personalization using closed loop data, maturing of distributed ledger technologies, coupled with high available fault tolerant architecture, channel continuum and Intelligent routing are few of the watch out items.
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Recent Headlines Archive
Q2 2025 (April, May, June)
1. Global Payments agrees $24.25 billion Worldpay deal. Global Payments will buy Worldpay from FIS and GTCR for cash and stock. GP will also sell issuer sunit to FIS for $13.5 billion
2. Visa is launching “Intelligent Commerce,” a suite of integrated APIs and a partnership program, to enable AI platforms and developers to incorporate payments directly into the commerce journey.
3. Coinbase wants to turn crypto platforms into Financial Infrastructure
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Q4 2024 (December 2024)
1. Mambu acquires French Payment player Numeral
2. US explores possibility of settlement network for multi asset transactions
3. Cash use in UK rises for second year in a row
4. Mastercard agrees to £200m settlement for fee overcharging
5. Singapore extends deadline for phase out of corporate paper cheques
6. ECB publishes second progress report on digital euro
7. Bitcoin price tops $100,000 for first time
8. Donald Trump says he is appointing former PayPal chief operating officer David 9. Sacks as "White House AI and Crypto Czar".
10. Dojo and American Express Partner to Streamline Payments in UK
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