India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is on track to surpass 1 trillion cumulative transactions by early 2027, ten years after the network first went live. New analysis from EBANX , the Brazil-headquartered cross-border payments platform, based on data from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), projects a further 297.2 billion transactions will be processed in the fiscal year that began April 1, 2026, pushing the lifetime

Circle abstracts the entire digital asset stack - custody, compliance, blockchain infrastructure - so institutions can settle in USDC while only ever touching fiat. The question is whether this is the unlock the mainstream payments industry has been waiting for. Circle Internet Group has launched CPN Managed Payments , a fully managed stablecoin settlement layer that allows payment service providers, banks, fintechs, and global platforms to access USDC -base d cross-border s

Stablecoins, Stripe's Tempo, and the €50 Million Wero Wave: Payments Just Got a Whole Lot Faster From Convera and Ripple's stablecoin alliance to Klarna's bank-issued token and Europe's digital wallet hitting 50 million users, this week proved that the future of payments is arriving ahead of schedule. The payments world doesn't do quiet weeks anymore. Over the past seven days, we've seen billion-dollar partnerships lock into place, blockchain-native settlement go mainstream,

Revolut has cleared a pivotal regulatory hurdle in Latin America's sixth-largest economy, receiving an Organisation Authorisation from Peru's Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS), the first of two formal approvals required to launch as a fully licensed bank in the countr y. The clearance positions the London-based fintech, which serves over 70 million customers globally, to become Peru's first entirely digital bank once a subsequent Functional Authorisation a