As of this week, the world's two biggest card networks are running two very different playbooks on the same $300 billion table. One is buying its way in. The other is auditioning partners in public. Meanwhile, the ECB has just handed 36 firms the keys to the digital euro sandbox. If you thought August would be a quiet month for payments, you have not been paying attention. In the space of three weeks, the industry has watched a $1.8 billion acquisition close, a request for pr

Centiglobe, the Swedish cross-border payment network, has added Greenbridge Markets as an on-demand liquidity provider, allowing member banks, payment firms and e-money institutions to convert between the network's tokenised deposits and fiat cash without holding capital in reserve ahead of every payment. Greenbridge joins Centiglobe Connect as what the company describes as an independent Affiliate Member, a counterparty that exchanges the network's bank-agnostic tokenised de

Priority Technology Holdings has agreed to acquire IntelliPay, a Utah-based payments software provider serving government agencies, schools and healthcare organisations, in a move that establishes a dedicated public-sector unit and pushes the Nasdaq-listed group deeper into enterprise payments. The company, which trades as Priority Commerce, said on 26 August 2026 that it had signed a membership interest purchase agreement for the business, though it did not disclose the purc

payabl. has integrated Visa Rapid Dispute Resolution into its merchant platform, giving businesses across the UK and EU an automated way to settle card disputes before they escalate into chargebacks. The move brings pre-dispute automation directly into payabl.one, the London-headquartered fintech's payments and accounts platform, at a point when first-party misuse has become one of the fastest-rising cost centres in European commerce. Rapid Dispute Resolution, known as RDR, i