Wallets and Cards — Digital Wallets and Payment Cards

This page brings together news and insight on digital wallets and payment cards — from consumer apps and mobile payment solutions to crypto cards, corporate wallets and institutional solutions. We cover how wallets and cards are evolving and converging in the digital financial system.

Swift wants to let you send money abroad with a phone number or email

Swift wants to let you send money abroad with a phone number or email

Swift wants to let consumers send money abroad using a phone number or email address, working with national payment systems such as Bizum and Pix.

Banks and neobanks
September 28, 2026
Chainlink lets banks control their own transfers between blockchains

Chainlink lets banks control their own transfers between blockchains

Chainlink launches CCIP 2.0, letting banks add their own verification and customer checks to transfers of tokenised assets between blockchains.

Technology
September 28, 2026
NBX sets up Riga subsidiary in bid to become a bank

NBX sets up Riga subsidiary in bid to become a bank

Norway's NBX wants to become a bank in Latvia and has registered a Riga subsidiary applying for a banking licence in the EEA.

Banks and neobanks
August 27, 2026
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Finance