Cards & Payments

Lloyds has launched the Lloyds Ultra, a credit card that combines simplicity with real rewards. "Lloyds Ultra is a flexible, fuss-free and refreshingly easy to understand credit card - no hassle, just rewards" says Rich Napier, Credit Card Director...

Deutsche Bank has announced the successful execution of its first euro-denominated cross-border payment on Partior's blockchain platform, a major milestone in the bank's digitalization with distributed ledger technology. The live transaction on blockchain was executed in collaboration with DBS,...

Zycus, the pioneer in Agentic AI-driven Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions, has launched Zycus Pay, a payments solution that has been developed in partnership with TransferMate, a B2B payments infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market leader. With this new app, organizations...

UBS, PostFinance and Sygnum have completed what is being described as a first for Switzerland’s banking industry: a legally binding interbank payment using tokenized bank deposits on a public blockchain. The pilot, supervised by the Swiss Bankers Association, explored...

Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol built together with leading payments and technology companies. The protocol is meant to make agent-led transactions secure across different platforms. It works as an extension of the existing Agent2Agent...

The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) confirmed that local banks will begin rolling out a national payment card developed under its direct supervision soon. The development is an expansion of Oman Net, the country's current domestic payments system. The card,...

European Union (EU) policymakers are accelerating efforts to advance the adoption of the digital euro across eurozone, according to reports, following the recent passage of a US stablecoin law that heightened concerns about the competitiveness of European digital currency. Earlier,...