Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
Open Banking Hits 15M Users in UK
September 01, 2025

New data found that nearly a third of all adults in the United Kingdom now use open banking services. Figures from Open Banking Limited showed that more than 15.6 million people and businesses use services powered by open banking, according to a Monday (Sept. 1)...

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South African Aims to Open Payments System to Nonbanks
August 31, 2025

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) reportedly wants to let nonbanks access the country’s payments system. The central bank plans to unveil proposals that would let this happen in the first half of next year, ending a monopoly held by commercial lenders, Bloomberg News reported...

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Visa Puts Tokenization at the Center of Frictionless Checkout
August 20, 2025

While retailers and card networks have made strides in merging card-present and card-not-present payment experiences, the essence of unified commerce extends beyond transaction processing. Unified commerce has become a goal, Matt Swatzell, head of Solutions, North American Acceptance at Visa, told PYMNTS as part of...

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Visa Says 73% of UK University Students Want Technology for Managing Bills
August 19, 2025

Visa found that 73% of university students in the United Kingdom would welcome technology that makes it easier for them to manage their bills. The findings came from a survey of 2,000 students between the ages of 18 and 23, according to a Tuesday (Aug....

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Welcome to Summer School: Lessons for a Digital Economy in Motion
August 14, 2025

In today’s fast-moving financial landscape, standing still means falling behind. That’s why we created PYMNTS Summer School: a dynamic virtual series where leaders across FinTech, banking, payments and digital commerce share the strategies they’re using to shape the future. This eBook captures those conversations, distilling...

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Why the Smart Money in Payments Is on Partnerships
August 12, 2025

Watch more: Shared Vision, Scaled Impact: The Power of Strategic Partnerships in Payments Within the software as a service (SaaS), reseller, banking and payments space, strategic partnerships are emerging as the victor of the buy-build-partner dilemma. While the old model of payments partnerships was often...

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Stax CEO Says Forget Payments and Focus on the Customer
August 06, 2025

Watch more: Stax CEO: Forget Payments and Focus on the Customer The year was 1995. Emails were occasional. The internet was limited to academia. While they couldn’t predict the explosion that would happen later that year when the internet grew from 10,000 to 100,000 dot-coms,...

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Ingo CEO Says Payouts Are the New Instant Paycheck
July 31, 2025

Watch more: Ingo CEO Says Payouts Are the New Paycheck With Modern Money Mobility As businesses rush to offer instant payment capabilities, there’s the danger of simply checking the box rather than embedding these capabilities into a broader, more strategic money mobility framework. This short-sighted...

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AWS: AI-Driven Payments Aren’t the Future; They’re the Present
July 30, 2025

Watch more: AWS: Cloud-Native, AI-Driven Payments Aren’t the Future; They’re the Present Innovation is writing the future of financial services. “In the payments industry today, innovation is not a luxury; it’s a lifeline,” Nilesh Dusane, global head of institutional payments at AWS, told PYMNTS during...