Marcel van Oost

Hi Payments Fanatic! In just two weeks, one of the biggest FinTech event of the year, Money20/20 Las Vegas, kicks off. I’ll be there catching up with industry friends, and no doubt, so will you.  Events like this are invaluable. But here’s the truth: for brands, visibility

Hey Payments Fanatic! India 🇮🇳 just did it again. The country’s payments powerhouse — NPCI — just teamed up with Razorpay and OpenAI to launch a pilot that lets users shop directly inside ChatGPT, powered by UPI. Yep, you can now chat your way to checkout. 0:00 /0:53 1× It’

Hey Payments Fanatic! Big moves from India’s payments giant PhonePe today, and they’re all about making checkout friction a thing of the past. At the Global FinTech Festival in Mumbai, PhonePe teamed up with Mastercard to roll out device tokenisation across its payments gateway. That means customers can

Hey Payments Fanatic! When Big Tech meets FinTech, things move fast. Checkout.com just inked a multi-year deal with Microsoft, moving its global payments engine onto Azure’s cloud — a major play to boost performance, security, and scalability for enterprise clients like eBay, Klarna, and ASOS. The partnership isn’t

Hey Payments Fanatic! A big milestone for Colombia 🇨🇴 today as the Banco de la República officially launched BRE-B, the country’s new interoperable instant payments system. It connects banks and digital wallets across Colombia, allowing people and businesses to send and receive money instantly, securely, and around the clock. More

India’s UPI is absolutely eating the payments world. The country’s homegrown real-time payments system now powers 84% of all digital payment volumes — that’s 17 billion transactions every month 🤯