Belgian e-invoicing platform Doccle has conducted its first live transaction using Wero, the digital payment service from the bank-backed European Payments Initiative.

Alipay has integrated QR code payments into augmented reality glasses from Chinese outfit Rockid to enable users to pay for products instore by looking at the label.

During the week of Singapore Fintech Festival 2022, Finextra caught up with Saxo’s APAC CEO Adam Reynolds and regional head of Saxo Institutional Ivan Chang at their offices in Singapore to discuss the launch of SaxoPartnerConnect.

A day after securing a $20 billion valuation in its latest funding round, crypto exchange Kraken says it has confidentially filed to go public in the US.

The FCA is coming good on its promise to assist firms to prepare for a changing climate, rolling out a series of innovation programmes to support the transition to a net zero economy.

German financial regulator BaFin has imposed more sanctions and oversight on N26. Separately, the digital bank has appointed UBS executive board member Mike Dargan as CEO.

A secure communication channel designed to protect financial data against future threats from quantum computers has been successfully established by the BIS Innovation Hub Eurosystem Centre, in concert with Banque de France and Deutsche Bundesbank.

A Japanese YouTuber who streams his pet minnows playing games on a Nintendo Switch was recently shocked to find some fishy charges to his credit card.

Adrian Mountstephens of Equinix believes that the Covid-19 pandemic will put the brakes on real-time payments rollouts as companies focus their attention and resources elsewhere.

PayPal has hired programmer, computer scientist, and open source champion Danese Cooper as its first head of open source.

Global investment and trading platform IG has become the first UK-listed company to roll out crypto trading to retail users in the UK.

Digital banking giant Revolut has appointed Frederic Oudea, former chief executive at Societe Generale, as chairman for its Western European operations.

Nationwide has moved its public-facing website to Microsoft Azure, marking the building society’s first application to be hosted in the Microsoft cloud.

India has postponed the roll out of a cap that would limit the market share of third party app providers using the country’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI).