Apple just ended its decade-long monopoly on mobile payments. From October 2025, every licensed FinTech, bank, and wallet provider can process payments directly on iPhones without Apple’s approval. This sudden change forces every financial institution to rethink its setup, technology, and risk strategy as competition floods the market overnight. For eCommerce businesses, this change defines how fast they grow and how well they protect revenue. Banks may still hold deposits, b

Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and the private sector partnered on a new project where machines pay each other without human intervention. We all know by now, that AI already shifting the focus away from UX where humans are targeted to buy, but this new method, where AI is selling or transferring funds to other devices such as cars, drones, or chargers, represents an entirely new way of seeing payments and banking. The plan is that entire sensor networks c

AI payment agents already shop online without human action: browse, compare, and even pay! But most businesses are still clueless how to take advantage of this new technology. Majority of the online systems block these agents by mistake, losing real customers, revenue, and trust before the AI payments could even start. Visa’s new Trusted Agent Protocol helps with this problem, but highlights the issue what happens when there is no payment and banking strategy behind a technol

Every few years, someone declares the end of cards. FinTech keeps innovating, and new payment tools, like A2A, promise to be safer, quicker, and cheaper, but somehow users rarely get the memo and keep using the traditional methods. This is exactly why businesses need proper payment and banking planning. Jumping on every new trend without understanding the underlying mechanisms and risks can ruin any business, mess up cash flow, or even freeze accounts. Only a Chief Payment Of

AI already changes how users search, it will soon also decide, and pay - but most companies still act like nothing happened. Payments...

In the latest webinar by the Soltesz Institute , Viktoria Soltesz spoke with Eyal Sivan , known globally as Mr. Open Banking , about the...