Tokenisation stories

Swift enlists over 50 banks to launch common rules for faster, clearer cross-border retail payments, with first flows live by June.

Ripple expands Ripple Payments with new custody and collections tools as stablecoin-based cross-border settlement surges among institutions.

Five years after the Kalifa Review, UK fintech's global edge endures, but slow domestic capital and tax reform threaten its scaling ambitions.

As AI agents start spending on our behalf, payments must be secured even when no human is present to pass traditional authentication checks.

Tariff hikes, AI adoption and regional supply chains are redrawing global trade as firms diversify sourcing and tighten working capital.

Crypto enters 2026 swinging as regulation, stablecoins, Bitcoin and DeFi trade blows in a defining bout for digital finance's future.

Bolt and Paysecure integrate one-click checkout into Cashier, promising faster repeat purchases while preserving merchant routing and risk controls.

Xero is axing its app store billing by June 2026, forcing developers onto new API-based tiers and their own subscription systems.

Mastercard taps Peter Schmeichel to front a UK push for tokenised Click to Pay checkouts, aiming to end manual card entry by 2030.

Paysecure wins Best Payments Industry Newcomer at the 2026 Card and Payments Awards in London for its fast-growing orchestration platform.

Bitget and BlockSec launch a UEX Security Standard, urging provable, system-wide safeguards for unified multi-asset trading platforms.

Aerospike Database 8 now embeds default dynamic data masking, tightening PII protection while easing compliance and operational overhead.

Tokenovate joins the Bank of England's RTGS Synchronisation Lab to test programmable, tokenised settlement for wholesale markets.

Fireblocks deepens its Thales tie-up to keep bank crypto keys in customer-owned HSMs, tightening control, compliance and resilience.

Bitget jumps to sixth place among global crypto exchanges as CoinGecko data shows 45.5% annual volume growth and 6.4% market share.

Ecommpay and Payrails form strategic tie-up, offering large merchants a single API to streamline complex, multi-provider payment stacks.

Ecommpay warns shoppers now have zero tolerance for checkout friction, with failed payments driving cart abandonment and lost revenue.

8x8 expands Secure Pay globally, unifying compliant digital payments and AI-led outreach across its customer experience platform.

DXC weaves Ripple and Euronet tech into its Hogan core platform, adding digital asset custody and blockchain payments for banks.

NORBr taps Ecommpay via pre-integration to let platforms activate global acquiring and orchestration in minutes, cutting payment build time.