Mastercard Strengthens Asia Pacific Leadership With Six Senior Appointments

Mastercard is strengthening its leadership presence across Asia Pacific with six senior appointments spanning core payments, market development, legal, geographic leadership and Southeast Asia operations. The leadership changes come as Mastercard continues to deepen its presence across one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse payments markets. The latest addition is Joyce Bo, who joined […]

GFF 2026 Day 3: BharatPeX, PayU and OneTag Spotlight the Next Phase of Digital Finance

The third and final day of Global Fintech Fest 2026 brought the spotlight back to product innovation, with new launches spanning enterprise payments, artificial intelligence and everyday digital infrastructure. As India’s financial ecosystem continues to move beyond basic digitisation, the latest wave of fintech products is increasingly focused on making payments more intelligent, connected and […]

Pay10 Showcases Interoperable Payments Ecosystem for Global Commerce at GFF 2026

Global Payments Solutions Partner highlights its 5-market footprint, 10 licences and interoperable platform connecting global commerce with local payment infrastructure Mumbai, India, 10 September 2026: Pay10, a leading alternative payments provider, is participating in Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026 as the Global Payments Solutions Partner. At the event, the company is showcasing its broader business […]

CCAvenue announces VISA Passkey Integration at Global Fintech Fest 2026

Gandhinagar/Mumbai, September 10, 2026 – AvenuesAI’s leading payments brand, CCAvenue, has integrated Visa Payment Passkey to help businesses offer customers a faster, more secure and seamless online payment authentication experience. The collaboration, being announced at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026 in Mumbai, brings device-based authentication capabilities to the CCAvenue payment experience, enabling customers to […]

GFF 2026 Day 2: AI, UPI, Tokenisation and a New Wave of Startup Bets Take Centre Stage

The second day of Global Fintech Fest 2026 brought a sharper view of where India’s digital economy could be headed next. If the first day was about setting the tone, Day 2 was about putting some of those ambitions into motion. Artificial intelligence, UPI, tokenisation and digital financial infrastructure emerged as recurring themes across the […]

Pine Labs appoints Razorpay SVP Jayaram Karthik as Chief Operations Officer

Fintech company Pine Labs has appointed Jayaram Karthik, former Senior Vice President of Business Operations at Razorpay, as its new Chief Operations Officer (COO), as the company looks to strengthen its operations and improve merchant experiences across its growing international footprint. In his new role, Karthik will lead operations and merchant experience across India and […]

Razorpay Launches ‘Vulcan’ AI Foundation Model for Payments

Bengaluru, August 18, 2026: Fintech company Razorpay has launched Vulcan, an AI foundation model developed specifically for the payments ecosystem. The model is designed to make digital transactions more reliable, secure, and efficient by applying artificial intelligence across multiple stages of the payment journey. Vulcan is a transformer-based foundation model trained on nearly 4 billion […]

Atish Shelar Takes Charge as Group CEO of MOS Utility

Mumbai: MOS Utility has appointed Atish Shelar as its Group Chief Executive Officer, bringing more than 25 years of experience across banking, fintech, digital payments, merchant acquiring, product strategy, and business development to the company’s leadership team. Shelar takes on the new role at an important stage in MOS Utility’s growth journey, with the company […]

Google Introduces AI-Powered ‘Ask Google Pay’ Assistant for Smarter Money Management

Google has introduced Ask Google Pay, an AI-powered assistant designed to help users better understand their spending and manage their finances through conversational interactions. Integrated into the Google Pay app and powered by Gemini, the new assistant can analyse transaction activity and provide users with personalised insights into their spending patterns. Users can ask questions […]

Skydo marks growth milestone with 50,000 customers and $1 billion in annualised payments

The milestone reflects Skydo’s growing scale and continued investment across global markets, engineering and GIFT City. National, August 11 2026:  Skydo, a cross-border payments platform for businesses, has surpassed $1 billion in annualised payment volume, serving more than 50,000 businesses. The milestone comes on the back of a USD 10 million Series A capital raise in December […]