In August 2025, BankservAfrica rebranded as PayInc, signalling a decisive shift and commitment to the future of faster, digital payments. Building on more than 50 years of facilitating payments, the organisation, in its role as a national payments utility,…
As part of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat’s Strategy on Financial Inclusion and SMEs Access to Finance 2023–2028, FinMark Trust is leading the implementation of a SADC-wide electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) and identity…
The payments industry in the U.S. reached a significant milestone this summer with the successful migration to the ISO® 20022 messaging format for the Fedwire® Funds Service. This achievement marks the culmination of years of coordinated effort and preparation…
Mastercard is working with Microsoft, and other companies including AI platforms, to integrate Microsoft’s leading AI technologies with Mastercard’s trusted payment solutions to develop and scale Agentic commerce, addressing the evolving needs of the…
Central Bank Payments News speaks with Ali Al Jabri, Acting Deputy CTO for Payment Systems at the Central Bank of Oman. The conversation, facilitated with the support of ProgressSoft, explores the strategies and partnerships shaping Oman’s payments ecosystem…
Visa’s David Sutton explores how privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), such as those developed by Featurespace, can close critical context gaps and help build safer, privacy-preserving payment systems
In this article from Gerard Hartsink, Senior Advisor at the International Chamber of Commerce, suggestions are given how the major players of the cross-border payments and trade finance industry, with support of their Financial Market Infrastructures…
The Gulf Payments Company paved the way for regional payment services integration by means of a specialised, publicly owned “payments infrastructure company.” In this article, CEO Ali Alhomidan shares his experiences with this approach for the benefit…
Tom Bayliss, Principal Adviser of Financial Inclusion, and Swastika Singh, Senior Adviser of Financial Inclusion, at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua, take us through their financial inclusion work programme focused on access to basic…
India's lesson is clear: payment innovation succeeds when it's part of a coherent digital ecosystem, not when it's deployed as a standalone solution. EPAA’s latest report, Digital Payments Revolution: India's March to a Trillion, captures conversations…
