Fincra, a payments fintech, has been granted a Third Party Payments Provider (TPPP) licence by South Africa’s financial regulators. This licence will allow the company, which was launched in September… read more →

PayPal Payments Private Limited, the Indian subsidiary of US-based PayPal Holdings Inc, has secured in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a Payment Aggregator for… read more →

French B2B payments firm Libeo has announced its entry into the UK market, targeting the digitally advanced yet structurally underpenetrated small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) segment. Already operating across France… read more →

Scarlett Sieber, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Money 20/20 and co-author of Embedded Finance, joins Trade Treasury Payments ahead of the 2025 Europe edition to explore key fintech trends, from AI and embedded payments to cross-border disruption and regulatory evolution. With a career spanning NASA, global banks, and startups, Sieber offers a front-row view on how bold partnerships, policy dialogue, and modular thinking are shaping the next phase of financial innovation.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a new set of recommendations to make the regulation of cross-border payments, a space long dominated by traditional financial institutions but seeing a… read more →

Hong Kong has long prided itself on being a global financial hub, and last week it took steps to stake a claim on becoming a regulatory leader in the digital… read more →

HSBC has announced the launch of its Tokenised Deposit Service for corporate clients in Hong Kong. The initiative represents the first live deployment of a bank-led blockchain-based deposit system in… read more →

Citi has launched PayTo functionality for institutional clients in Australia, enabling account-to-account pull payments as part of its broader real-time payments offering. The move provides clients with an alternative to… read more →

Ripple has launched blockchain-enabled cross-border payments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in partnership with Zand Bank (a digital bank) and Mamo (a fintech).