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Anthropic Could File IPO Paperwork as Soon as Friday
PYMNTS4h agoUS
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Payments news briefing
Curated headlines from across the payments industry, grouped by region. Every item links straight to the original publisher — we carry the headline and the source, nothing more.
Region
Topic
Today
80% of Top CFOs Use Working Capital to Fund Growth
PYMNTS7h agoUS
AI Recommendations Need a Checkout Shoppers Trust
PYMNTS7h agoUS
Mastercard to Power New Enjaz Products for Travellers and Expats
Fintech News Middle East7h agoMiddle Eastmastercard
Bybit Secures VARA Licence for Spot Crypto Trading in Dubai
Fintech News Middle East7h agoMiddle East
UAE leads $39 billion global digital fraud crackdown with more than 900 arrests - The National
The National (Business)7h agoMiddle East
Robinhood Secures DFSA Approval for Middle East Launch in 2027
Fintech News Middle East7h agoMiddle East
Open Finance Arrives on the NBF Direct App with Multi-Bank Access
Fintech News Middle East8h agoMiddle East
Advent Expands into the Middle East with New Abu Dhabi Office
Fintech News Middle East10h agoMiddle East
Anthropic’s New AI Agent Purchases Business Supplies
PYMNTS14h agoUS
Walmart Opens Doors for AI Agents That Obey Strict Rules
PYMNTS15h agoUS
Yesterday
Meta Puts All Its AI Eggs in the Muse Basket
PYMNTS15h agoUS
AWS Executive Says 40% of European Startups Consider Leaving Region to Scale
PYMNTS15h agoEurope
Mastercard AI Assistant Helps Consumers Discover Unused Card Perks
PYMNTS17h agoUSmastercard
Booking.com Probe Exposes Travel Fraud Beyond Checkout
PYMNTS17h agoUS
ServiceNow Announces New AI Agent Services With Nvidia
PYMNTS19h agoUS
Klarna and FreshBooks Team to Bring BNPL to Small Businesses
PYMNTS19h agoUS
Anthropic Accounting Charge Drives 80% Net Loss
PYMNTS20h agoUS
OCC sets out final rule to implement Genius Act
Finextra20h agoUS
Outmarket AI brings AI-native insurance workflows to agencies of all sizes
Finextra21h agoEurope
Robbin launches credit integration with ChatGPT and Claude
Finextra21h agoEurope
OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads to 26 New Countries
PYMNTS21h agoUS
Hackers Employ Grok and Claude to Attack LatAm Banks
PYMNTS21h agoUS
Anthropic Writes Its Own Rules for Shutting Down AI
PYMNTS21h agoUS
Pigment Raises $250 Million for Agentic AI Platform
PYMNTS22h agoUS
BBVA works with Nvidia to boost AI agent security
Finextra23h agoEurope
Booking.com Anti-Fraud Practices Face Scrutiny in Europe
PYMNTS23h agoEurope
FTC, SEC Scrutiny Raises Stakes for AI Data Disclosures
PYMNTS24h agoUS
Smart Contracts Connect B2B Workflows to Real-Time Payments
PYMNTS24h agoUS
OpenAI Brings Its Frontier AI Models to Google Cloud
PYMNTS24h agoUS
EBay Cuts 1,100 Jobs to Pivot Toward High-Growth Markets
PYMNTS24h agoUS
Visa Debuts Tools to Keep Fraud Out of Virtual Commercial Card Payments
PYMNTS25h agoUSvisa
Standard Chartered to acquire Zodia Custody
Finextra26h agoEurope
Twelve Securis selects Fund Recs for operational controls
Finextra26h agoEurope
Bajaj Broking adds commodity trading to digital platforms
Finextra26h agoEurope
DXtrade launches white label crypto interface
Finextra26h agoEurope
Euroclear announces leadership appointments
Finextra26h agoEurope
Bank bosses under pressure to implement AI ahead of time
Finextra27h agoEurope
India's largest bank hit by cyberattack
Finextra28h agoAsia
JPMorgan Gets Closer to Clinching Nigerian Banking License
PYMNTS28h agoAfrica
MNT-Halan Lists in Cairo With Egypt’s Largest IPO Since 2021
Fintech News Middle East30h agoMiddle East
Stablecoins Need to Get Behind Cards, Not Replace Them
PYMNTS31h agoUS
25% of Card Replacement Calls Point to an AI Opportunity
PYMNTS31h agoUS
Banks Are Using More AI Agents. Who Actually Owns Them?
Fintech News Middle East34h agoMiddle East
Programmable banking platform Hyperlayer raises £19.5m
Finextra39h agoEurope
Starling build agentic fincrime investigator that takes 17 seconds
Finextra39h agoEurope
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Capital One Pushes Deeper Into AI as Card Spending Grows
PYMNTS39h agoUS
Nestlé Hands Its Overdue Invoices to SAP’s AI Agents
PYMNTS40h agoUS
Meta’s Muse Reaches 10 Million Downloads Faster Than ChatGPT
PYMNTS41h agoUS
AI Labs Pay Lawyers $400 an Hour to Train Models
PYMNTS42h agoUS
TransUnion Debuts New Scoring Capability to Combat Fraud
PYMNTS43h agoUS
Payment Data Can Keep Merchants Tied to Their Processors
PYMNTS44h agoUS
DeepSeek Open Sources Inference Tech to Lower AI Costs
PYMNTS44h agoUS
Apple Wallet Car Keys Now Work With GM Vehicles
PYMNTS44h agoUS
NatWest orders 30,000 staff to spend more time in the office
Finextra45h agoEurope
Robot Arms Finally Crack the Meal Assembly Line
PYMNTS45h agoUS
Hasbro Hopes for Happy Holiday Season as Revenue Rises 15%
PYMNTS45h agoUS
Sustainable Finance Live: Fighting food poverty and financing pensions
Finextra46h agoEurope
Mastercard Debuts Tool to Help AI Agents Purchase Digital Services
PYMNTS47h agoUSmastercard
Google Offers Gemini Agent to Government Workers
PYMNTS47h agoUS
Finsei Picks Thredd to Help Launch New Debit Offering
PYMNTS47h agoUS
Modernising Core Banking Without Compromising Resilience
Finextra2d agoEurope
Sustainable Finance Live: How can we power regenerative finance?
Finextra2d agoEurope
Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust
PYMNTS2d agoUSvisa
tpay Secures Vodafone Qatar’s Operator Billing Role
Fintech News Middle East2d agoMiddle East
Emirates NBD and BlackRock Launch Income Funds for Retail Clients
Fintech News Middle East2d agoMiddle East
The Agentic Edge: Who Has It and How to Get It
PYMNTS2d agoUS
Key Capital Deal Widens Investor Reach for Hub71 Startups
Fintech News Middle East2d agoMiddle East
Chocolate Finance Expands Beyond Singapore, Hong Kong With UAE Launch
Fintech News Middle East2d agoMiddle East
CBUAE Clears Mawarid Finance to Offer MSME Financing With Liabify
Fintech News Middle East2d agoMiddle East
Salmon raises funds to double down in the Philippines
Finextra3d agoAsia
Monday, October 19, 2026
Mastercard launches Stablecoin Security
Finextra Payments3d agoEuropemastercard
Klarna expands Fiserv partnership to enterprise merchants
Finextra Payments3d agoEurope
First Citizens Bank partners NCR Atleos to provide ATM access at Target stores
Finextra3d agoEurope
Mastercard and Extend Team to Improve Bank and Business Software
PYMNTS3d agoUSmastercard
Big Banks Won’t Let Outside AI Agents Move Money
PYMNTS3d agoUS
DHS Bans DeepSeek Across Federal Government Networks
PYMNTS3d agoUS
Mesh makes stablecoin and crypto balances spendable across Visa network
Finextra3d agoEuropevisa
Morgan Stanley enters UK savings market via Raisin partnership
Finextra3d agoEurope
Nvidia-Backed doubleAI Debuts AI ‘Code Execution’ Models
PYMNTS3d agoUS
Euronet and Fireblocks team on stablecoin-funded card issuing
Finextra3d agoEurope
MoneyGram revamps app
Finextra Payments3d agoEurope
Mastercard Extends Risk Capabilities to Stablecoin Payments
PYMNTS3d agoUSmastercard
Stablecoins Move From Making Payments to Making Loans
PYMNTS3d agoUS
JP Morgan brings JPM Coin to Ethereum
Finextra3d agoEurope
Kort Payments to buy AptPay
Finextra3d agoEurope
Archax adopts Chainlink
Finextra3d agoEurope
Prism Data raises $20m
Finextra3d agoEurope
ValidiFI launches Compass to help firms evaluate risk in transactions
Finextra3d agoEurope
Jack Henry expands Google Cloud partnership to tokenised deposits
Finextra3d agoEurope
EPC to create EU Digital Identity Wallet framework for PSPs
Finextra3d agoEurope
UK’s FCA Plans Regulatory Framework for Agentic Finance
PYMNTS3d agoEurope
Hackers Use AI Agents to Do Hacking for Them
PYMNTS3d agoUS
Fiserv launches platform to simplify cross-border commerce
Finextra3d agoEurope
Brickflow and Upstix partner to speed up cash property purchases
Finextra3d agoEurope
Kaplan UK research highlights AI capability gaps
Finextra3d agoEurope
Why B2B Checks Still Move $15 Trillion a Year
PYMNTS3d agoUS
Microsoft pulls out of Nscale UK datacentre plan
Finextra3d agoEurope
FCA calls for disclaimers on AI financial advice
Finextra3d agoEurope
Santander bolsters AI capabilities through NVDIA
Finextra3d agoEurope
Exchange Data International launches global economic calendar
Finextra3d agoEurope
Blevins Franks selects Palindrome for cross-border wealth advice
Finextra3d agoEurope
Zilch to move to new London HQ
Finextra3d agoEurope
PayMore to launch on Google Play
Finextra3d agoEurope
PingPong partners with Getnet for LatAm expansion
Finextra3d agoEurope
MKI Partners expands in Latin America
Finextra3d agoEurope
Specialist Mortgage Group embeds Y3S platform
Finextra3d agoEurope
Access Partnership secures $13m in funding
Finextra3d agoEurope
Finovox launches ROI tool for fraud prevention
Finextra3d agoEurope
GS Securities and Acuity Trading develop AI trading signals
Finextra3d agoEurope
Emirates NBD Partners with OpenAI to Run GPT Models within the UAE
Fintech News Middle East3d agoMiddle East
AI Agents Could Fill Treasury’s Looming Talent Gap
PYMNTS3d agoUS
Credit Unions Could Win Younger Members Through Payments
PYMNTS3d agoUS
AI Agents Are Going to Work at City Hall
PYMNTS3d agoUS
Why Insured Workers Still Skip Healthcare
PYMNTS3d agoUS
FAB Launches The Exchange Series on AI Governance
Fintech News Middle East3d agoMiddle East
Activate Capital to Open Doha Office as It Joins QIA’s Fund of Funds
Fintech News Middle East3d agoMiddle East
GCash Wallets Now Reachable From the UAE Through botim money
Fintech News Middle East3d agoMiddle East
Anthropic Takes Its AI Safety Proposals to Capitol Hill
PYMNTS4d agoUS
Sam Altman’s World Debuts ID Verification for AI Agents
PYMNTS4d agoUS
Acorns buys Gen Z social finance app Frich
Finextra4d agoEurope
World takes on AI-driven impersonations with new suite for banking and finance
Finextra4d agoEurope
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Regional Banks See Growth in Spite of Economic Gloom
PYMNTS4d agoUS
Indian Consumers Embrace Cash Ahead of New Instant Payment Fees
PYMNTS4d agoAsia
Musk Says White House Duties Distracted Him From AI
PYMNTS4d agoUS
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Luxury Shoppers Put Their Money Where Their Feet Are
PYMNTS5d agoUS