Wallester UK has been authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), establishing a regulated foundation for its operations in the United Kingdom and advancing the company's international expansion strategy.

XTransfer, the world’s leading B2B cross-border trade payment platform, and Societe Generale, a leading European bank in transaction banking, announced having signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during Money20/20 Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, to enhance cross-border payment infrastructure and develop integrated financial solutions to support international trade flows.

Consequently, banking software has remained stuck in a "copilot" model—where an AI simply summarizes data or suggests actions to a human operator. Experian’s Agent Operating System fundamentally breaks this pattern, introducing an agentic software layer embedded natively within the Experian Ascend Platform (which services over 2,300 global enterprises).

Clear Junction Group, a global payments infrastructure provider serving financial institutions and cryptoasset businesses, has announced a UK-focused partnership between Clear Junction Digital Limited and Agant to support institutional access to GBPA, Agant’s Pound sterling stablecoin.

Today at Money2020, UK Payments Initiative Ltd (UKPI) launched a scheme designed for the next-generation of open banking payments, marking a turning point in the availability of alternatives to traditional card-based and direct debit payments.

Da Nang, Vietnam: Organised by Aeternum and co-hosted with the Da Nang Innovation Start Support Center (DISSC), with institutional participation from the Da Nang People’s Committee, the State Securities Commission of Vietnam, and the Da Nang Department of Science and Technology, the summit drew over 2,150 registrations and welcomed more than 500 delegates, including senior policymakers, institutional leaders, founders, investors, and technology builders from across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America.

A new study by DECTA, a payment infrastructure company, has determined the disconnect between the presence of AI chatbots and their effectiveness in resolving banking app issues.

Lorum today announced the upcoming launch of a yield-bearing capability within its cash management offering for institutional treasurers. The capability extends Lorum's existing cash management service, giving treasurers access to money market instruments alongside the multi-currency clearing, custody, and FX they already use, through a single account structure. Clients will be able to earn yield on idle balances held on the platform, including dollars held for foreign exchange execution, operational liquidity buffers, and funding held between collection and payout cycles.

LSEG Risk Intelligence today announced, at Money 20/20 Europe, the launch of Identity Gateway, a new technology infrastructure layer designed to simplify access to trusted digital identity schemes.

Today Hey Savi launched UK’s first agentic commerce experience with native checkout powered by PayPal. The app is the first of its kind AI-powered, brand agnostic fashion search platform for women, making it easier for shoppers to find, compare and buy must-have styles without leaving the app. Debenhams Group - including the Group brands Debenhams, Karen Millen, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing – is the first retailer in the UK to bring end-to-end AI-powered shopping to UK consumers.

At Money 20/20, Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services, and ING, a global financial institution with a strong European base, announce the successful execution of Europe's first end-to-end agentic payment transaction in production with Mastercard.

BHM Capital, the leading financial institution in the capital markets of the United Arab Emirates, announced the activation of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) market coverage through Tabadul, the cross-border digital trading platform under Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), further enhancing regional market connectivity.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, today announced the release of a new report produced in partnership with FXC Intelligence, the world’s leading provider of cross-border payments data and intelligence, titled “Europe’s Cross Border Payments Crossroads: The Current State and Future Potential of the Industry in 2026.”

Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY), a global leader in AI-first business consulting and technology services, today announced the expansion of its strategic collaboration with DNB Bank ASA (DNB), Norway’s largest bank, to modernize its Financial Crime (FinCrime) operations using NICE Actimize X-Sight Enterprise platform. Through this engagement, Infosys will help DNB transform fragmented, legacy systems into a unified, intelligence-driven, cloud-native platform that enhances risk insights, improves detection accuracy, and strengthens multi-jurisdiction regulatory compliance.  

Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain-based enterprise solutions across traditional and digital finance, today announced that its enterprise-grade, USD-backed stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD) is now available to institutions in Türkiye through three new partnerships with BiLira, Bitexen and Bitlo.