Visa and Revolut Are Removing the Checkout Form
Hey Payments Fanatic!
For years, online payments have felt nothing like in-store payments.
For all the progress in payments, online checkout can still feel far more complicated than it should.
Visa and Revolut want to close that gap.
The two companies are rolling out Click to Pay to millions of Revolut customers across the UK and Europe, giving eligible cardholders a faster way to check out without manually entering card details.
What makes this interesting is what's happening behind the scenes. The real story isn't the button itself. It's the infrastructure underneath it. Visa is gradually replacing traditional card details with tokenized credentials, making online payments both simpler for customers and harder for fraudsters to exploit.
It also points to where payments are heading. The future checkout experience probably won't involve typing card details at all. Payments will become increasingly invisible, embedded directly into digital experiences and eventually into AI-driven commerce flows.
And speaking of card networks, keep scrolling. Further down, you'll find Mastercard's latest quarterly results and a closer look at how the company is expanding beyond payments into AI, cybersecurity, digital identity, and stablecoins.
Today's remaining Payments headlines are just below. 👇 See you tomorrow!
Cheers,
INSIGHTS
📰 Payments are becoming the battleground for UK travel: A report from Ecommpay. Analysing the payment strategies of the top 10 UK OTAs, the report explores how wallets, BNPL, open banking, orchestration, and smarter routing can improve conversion, reduce false declines, and help recover part of the £16.5 billion in travel revenue linked to payment optimisation opportunities. Download the report here
📊 Mastercard reported strong Q1 FY26 results, with revenue rising 16% to $8.4 billion and value-added services revenue growing 22% to $3.5 billion. Beyond payments, Mastercard continues expanding into AI-powered commerce, digital identity, cybersecurity, open banking, and stablecoins. Read the full article here
NEWS
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🇬🇧 Visa scales Click to Pay for Revolut cardholders, bringing frictionless checkout to millions and signalling a new default for online payments. Revolut has introduced Click to Pay for its 13 million+ customers in the UK and 40 million+ across Europe to use at checkout, alongside a coordinated rollout across Europe and key international markets.
🇺🇸 Stripe and AWS enable AI agent payments for content owners and publishers. The system uses HTTP 402 Payment Required responses and supports machine-to-machine payments, helping content owners monetise growing AI-driven traffic without custom integrations.
🇨🇦 SumUp launches in Canada, bringing simple, transparent payment solutions to its 38th market. As part of the launch, SumUp is introducing two core products to the Canadian market: the SumUp Go card reader and Payment Links, enabling merchants to accept remote and online payments with ease.
🇳🇬 Ripple participates in Flutterwave’s Series E with a strategic investment to accelerate African stablecoin payments. With this capital and a deepened product alliance, Flutterwave will accelerate its goal to bridge traditional financial systems with next-generation digital asset infrastructure.
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🇨🇳 Alipay unveils AI agent upgrade, Ah Bao. Users can access over 10,000 everyday services, from hailing rides to ordering food and booking home appliance repairs, through natural conversations after switching to the AI agent version of Alipay with a simple swipe to the right on its homepage.
🇺🇸 Adyen announces Adyen Agentic as the universal translator for the next era of commerce. The solution includes Agentic Feed, Agentic Cart, and Agentic Payments, enabling businesses to connect product catalogs, checkout systems, and payment infrastructure to conversational AI platforms through a single integration.
🇬🇧 PawaPay hits three billion transactions, doubling daily payment volumes. The company said it has reached its third billion transactions in less than nine months, three months faster than it took to process the previous billion. Read more
🇵🇭 Ant International-backed Philippine FinTech Unicorn to file for IPO as soon as this month. Mynt, the operator of GCash, is reportedly preparing to file for an IPO that could raise more than $1 billion. The listing could become the country’s largest IPO in five years and one of the biggest in Philippine market history.
🇬🇭 GCB Bank and VISA expand collaboration to deliver smarter, customer-centric payment solutions in Ghana. The discussions explored new ways to improve convenience, value, and personalisation as customer expectations continue to evolve.
🇬🇧 Starling Business set up Tap to Pay on iPhone. Tap to Pay allows Starling Bank business and sole trader customers to accept contactless payments directly on their smartphone, eliminating the need for an external card reader. Keep reading
🇦🇺 AUDC has strengthened its leadership team with the appointments of Andrew Kitchen and José Barroso. The hires come as demand grows for regulated digital payment infrastructure and follow the launch of the company’s New Zealand dollar stablecoin, NZDSC, alongside continued expansion of its AUDD stablecoin ecosystem.
🌍 Klarna backer Creandum puts $10M on ex-unicorn founders to fix the one B2B payments problem software never solved. The fresh investment will help Causa Prima grow its engineering and product teams in Madrid and Munich. Its goal is to eliminate payment terms.
🇬🇧 Former Microsoft chief Dame Clare Barclay joins British FinTech unicorn Zilch. The move comes as Zilch expands across Europe following its acquisition of Fjord Bank, pursues further acquisitions, and prepares for a potential future public listing.
🇺🇸 Swift names Michael Manos as Chief Information Officer. At Swift, Manos will ensure the company's network and cloud infrastructure remain secure and operationally ready to support its large-scale services and systems. Continue reading
🇸🇨 Bitget expands stablecoin payments for global merchants through Paydify partnership. The collaboration enables merchants connected to Paydify to access Bitget’s global user base through a single payment integration, simplifying how businesses accept stablecoin payments across the growing Web3 ecosystem.
🇺🇸 Zip US expands its partnership with Stripe to bring flexible payments to agentic commerce through shared payment tokens. The integration allows AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of consumers while keeping payment credentials secure and expanding access to alternative payment methods beyond traditional card-on-file transactions.
🇺🇸 DCodex officially launches DPay. DPay is a Visa Business System-powered USDT commercial debit card that allows users to spend cryptocurrency directly at any Visa-accepting merchant worldwide, without manual conversion. Read on
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