Аsia
Next-gen credit platforms redefine global card market
IBS Intelligence, Posted December 3, 2025
Across the globe, credit card usage is accelerating as consumers increasingly expect faster, more flexible, and digitally native experiences. From APAC to the Americas, customers are demanding instant card issuance, real-time spending controls, personalised rewards, and agile repayment options—capabilities that many traditional credit systems struggle to provide.
RBI and ECB to link UPI with European payment system
IBS Intelligence, Posted December 1, 2025
The RBI has moved into the “realisation phase” of linking India’s UPI with the Eurozone’s TIPS system, marking a key step toward enabling instant, low-cost cross-border payments between the two regions. The initiative is expected to significantly improve the speed and affordability of transactions for consumers and businesses, strengthening remittances, trade flows and broader payments interoperability.
Europe
Buy Crypto with Revolut in the Uniswap Web App and Wallet
Uniswap, Posted December 2, 2025
Buying crypto in the Uniswap Web App and Wallet just got easier. Uniswap Labs is partnering with Revolut, Europe’s largest finance app with over 65M customers, to offer a fast, seamless onramp. Users can purchase crypto using their Revolut balance or debit card, all within Uniswap apps.
This integration adds Revolut to our growing list of fiat onramping options, including Robinhood, Transak, and MoonPay, and gives users in 28 countries more choice in how they get onchain.
Paymentology and Datos Insights Release Landmark Global Study on the New Economics of Credit Cards
Paymentology, Posted December 3, 2025
London, 3rd December Paymentology, the leading next-generation global issuer-processor, today announced the launch of a new report developed in partnership with Datos Insights: The Global Credit Card Shift: Next-Gen Platforms Bypass Legacy Limits.
The report uncovers a major consumer shift transforming credit markets worldwide. Across APAC, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, and Latin America, consumers are demanding more flexible, digital-first credit experiences, driving credit card usage to accelerate across every major region. This surge is fuelled by the need for instant issuance, greater spending control, personalised rewards, and the ability to manage repayments with far more agility than traditional products allow.
Visa backs launch of multiple new digital wallets in Europe
IBS Intelligence, Posted December 2, 2025
Visa launched three new digital wallets in Europe in collaboration with BBVA, Klarna and Vipps MobilePay, and is working with Italy’s BANCOMAT on a pilot slated for early 2026. The launches mark the first Visa-enabled wallets to use NFC technology to support Host Card Emulation (HCE) on iOS, following a major EU regulatory shift.
Access to NFC technology was opened to third-party wallets under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), removing a long-standing barrier to competition on iOS and allowing European issuers, FinTechs and domestic schemes to offer tap-and-pay services without relying on native wallet infrastructure. The change is expected to accelerate wallet innovation as mobile payments continue to dominate eCommerce behaviour.
Osome founder and CEO Victor Lysenko departs
Fintech Futures, Posted December 2, 2025
Victor Lysenko, CEO and founder of business and financial management platform Osome, has announced that he is leaving the company after more than eight years of leadership.
Confirming his departure via LinkedIn, Lysenko said: “After 8.5 extraordinary years, my journey as founder and CEO of Osome is coming to a close.”
Headquartered in Singapore, Osome provides digital solutions for business administration, including company formation, accounting, and financial management services.
USA
Banking Tech Awards 2025: Winners announced
Fintech Futures, Posted December 4, 2025
The fintech community gathered in full force on December 3, 2025, at the prestigious Royal Lancaster Hotel in London for the highly anticipated Banking Tech Awards. This annual event, renowned for recognising the brightest minds and most innovative achievements in the financial technology sector, delivered an unforgettable evening of celebration, collaboration, and inspiration.
Money20/20 USA: Breaking technology barriers to accelerate payments innovation
Fintech Futures, Posted December 1, 2025
As the payments industry undergoes rapid transformation, legacy technology continues to hinder what Heman Daswani, Payments Specialist at Temenos, describes as the “golden decade for payments innovation”.
In a video interview with FinTech Futures at Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas, Daswani shared how the Swiss banking technology provider is helping financial institutions overcome these challenges and seize new opportunities in the evolving payments landscape.
Goldman Sachs announces $2bn Innovator deal
Financier Worldwide, Posted December 2, 2025
Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Innovator Capital Management, a provider of defined-outcome exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in a cash and stock deal worth around $2bn. The deal marks Goldman’s latest attempt to bolster its asset management division.
According to Goldman, the acquisition, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, will boost its ETF offerings in a fast-growing corner of the investing world. Goldman notes that the acquisition strategically expands the firm’s more durable revenue and reinforces its commitment to offering institutional and individual investors comprehensive solutions.
LatAm
Mastercard unveils Agent Pay in Latin America and the Caribbean, accelerating smarter, safer agentic commerce
Mastercard, Posted December 3, 2025
Issuers will be enabled for Agent Pay by February of next year.
Enabling partners like Bemobi, Checkout.com, Davivienda, Evertec, Getnet, Inti, MagaluPay and Yuno will be some of the first to leverage Agent Pay to scale AI-powered payments in the region.
At the Mastercard Innovation Forum, Mastercard announced that beginning in 2026, Mastercard Agent Pay will launch across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Paysafe adds Pix and Boleto payments for a gaming platform
IBS Intelligence, November 28, 2025
Paysafe has expanded its payments partnership with cloud gaming provider Boosteroid, enabling subscribers in Brazil to pay for monthly and annual plans using Pix bank transfers and Boleto Bancário. The move is aimed at strengthening Boosteroid’s localisation strategy in Latin America’s largest gaming market.
