Open Payments: Beyond Open Banking

Open Payments represents an API-first, interoperable, intelligent, and ecosystem-driven approach to payment enablement. It focuses not only on accessing financial information but on enabling seamless, ...
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[China AI Update] The Future Transformed by AI Payments: Alipay and WeChat Pay Simultaneously Introduce Autonomous Payment Functions

In just two days, from June 16 to 17, 2026, the "Big Four" of Chinese payments—Alipay, WeChat Pay, JD.com, and UnionPay—successively announced and introduced autonomous payment functions via AI agents ...
The Star

QuickCheck: Has contactless payment been removed from the new MyKad?

QuickCheck: Has contactless payment been removed from the new MyKad? THE upcoming new MyKad has been turning heads since images and videos of it began circulating on Threads, with one change in ...
Finextra

UPI, Pix, and the Rise of Public Payment Rails

How interoperable public payment infrastructure can support private innovation, merchant acceptance, and inclusive digital economies. For many years, digital payment innovation was associated mainly ...