Merchants operating across multiple payment rails have long faced a stubborn trade-off: breadth of payment options or depth of transaction intelligence. A new integration between Yaspa , the UK-based open banking specialist that raised a $12M Series B in July 2025, and Paysecure , which connects merchants to more than 500 acquirers and alternative payment met hods globally, is designed to eliminate that choice entirely. The two companies announced the partnership on April 2,

By Maria Harris, Founder and Chair of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) When Open Banking launched in the UK, few outside finance understood what it would unleash. It began as a regulatory mandate to share data between banks. It evolved into a platform that reshaped payments, lending, personal finance, and entire categories of fintech. Now the same blueprint of openness and standardisation is moving into one of the most fragmented and outdated sectors of all: propert

Authors: Irene Pathan  and Kevin Mulligan Affiliation: Department of International Business, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing (IBEM), Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast , UK The perception of financial competitiveness in Europe versus Asia might be equated to one’s preference for the games of chess and Go.  Are you a ‘chess’ person? Methodical, rule bound, and long-term strategy driven. Or are you a ‘Go’ person? Fast, agile, and seeking to dominate the board

Written by: Chandramouli Pandya from IFF. The Indian banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sector stands at the epicenter of an unprecedented AI transformation. The banks that embrace AI today won't just survive tomorrow, they will define it. Recent data reveals that 74% of Indian financial firms have initiated Generative AI proof-of-concept projects, with 11% already running in production. This isn't merely adoption; it's a fundamental reimagining of how financia