What Is the Most Trusted Payment Method Globally?
Hi Payments Fanatic!
Let’s do a quick quiz to see how much you know about Payments 😉
What is the most trusted payment method globally?
A) Local payment methods B) Credit cards C) Digital wallets D) Debit cards
And let me know in the comments below if you had the answer correct!
Cheers,
PODCAST
🎤 In this Q&A episode of Connecting the Dots in FinTech, we sit down with Mary Wisniewski, a former journalist turned FinTech content leader. From her journey into FinTech to the critical role of clear, human-centered communication, Mary shares insights on what companies often miss when trying to connect emotionally with audiences, the importance of media transparency, and how content can drive financial inclusion. You can also listen to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Q&A with Mary Wisniewski
INSIGHTS
🇺🇸 Airwallex’s 2025 mid-year mission update, Co-founder and CEO Jack Zhang shares how the company is reshaping global banking with a borderless, real-time, and AI-powered financial infrastructure. Recognizing the limitations of legacy systems, Jack emphasizes Airwallex’s commitment to building a modern financial operating system that helps businesses scale globally without friction.
NEWS
🌍 Trust in the Digital Economy 2025 by Checkout.com in partnership with YouGov. The report examines the critical role of trust in digital commerce. Unlike traditional retail, where trust is built into in-person transactions through methods like chip and PIN or cash, online commerce requires businesses to actively earn consumer trust. Also, it highlights how this dynamic makes trust both a valuable asset and a volatile factor in the digital economy.
🌍 Mollie has officially expanded its payment platform into Finland, Norway, and Denmark, offering businesses local payment methods, such as MobilePay (Finland and Denmark), Vipps (Norway), and Swish (Denmark and Norway), alongside global options like credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Klarna, plus full support in the local languages with fast integrations via Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and PrestaShop; these simultaneous launches reinforce Mollie’s strategy to establish a strong Nordic presence.
🇬🇧 Turning failed payments into a revenue recovery machine by Solidgate. Soft declines cause up to 90% of failed online payments, significantly impacting subscription businesses. Static retry methods often fail, leading to lost revenue and inefficiency. Solidgate’s AI-powered smart retries optimize timing to recover more payments and reduce churn.
🇧🇪 Radisson Hotel Group advances global payment strategy with CellPoint Digital’s payment orchestration platform. The new platform establishes a payment infrastructure that supports Radisson Hotel Group’s continued expansion, enabling the rapid onboarding of new properties and markets.
🇬🇧 Ecommpay is named as a finalist in nine 2025 payments awards categories, recognising the work Ecommpay does to improve accessibility and deliver better payment solutions. Some of the categories are Best Alternative and Online Payments Solution, B2B Payments Innovation of the Year, International Payments Excellence Award, and Embedded Finance and Open Banking Award.
🇰🇷 Toss to expand pay-by-face to 1 mil. stores nationwide by 2026. The service, called "Face Pay" by Toss, enables users to make payments at stores simply by looking at a terminal, after registering their facial information and payment method in advance through the Toss app.
🇺🇸 Sweden's Klarna targets up to $14 billion valuation in eagerly awaited US IPO. The buy now, pay later lender and some of its investors plan to sell 34.3 million shares in the IPO at prices expected to be between $35 and $37, aiming to raise $1.27 billion.
🇪🇺 Klarna launches debit-first card across Europe for everyday spending. The Klarna Card, powered by Visa Flexible Credential, is debit by default, letting users pay instantly with their own money, while also offering flexible options. Within the Klarna app, consumers can choose: Pay in 3, Pay Later, or longer-term financing for larger purchases, subject to approval.
🇬🇧 Zopa Bank expands payments grip with retail finance acquisition. The FinTech has snapped up Rvvup, a platform designed to streamline businesses’ acceptance, collection, and management of payments. Zopa said the acquisition will treble the size of its embedded finance business in two years, which covers the integration of financial products into non-financial platforms.
🇬🇧 Visa partners with Ample Earth to power sustainable spending. Together, Ample and Visa aim to embed sustainability data into digital banking apps and loyalty programmes and enable banks to better segment customers and unlock new ways to engage, empower, and reward sustainability.
🇵🇱 TrueLayer launches in Poland, strengthening European payments leadership. Polish businesses can sign up to TrueLayer’s instant payouts product. Its entry into the market will enable businesses to benefit from instant settlement, reduced costs, increased success rates, and real-time reconciliation.
🇺🇸 Thunes and Ripple expand global partnership to transform cross-border payments. By leveraging Thunes's Network with Ripple's blockchain-powered payments solutions, the two companies are driving more efficient and accessible cross-border payments for financial institutions and businesses around the world.
🇳🇵 Khetan Group joins FinTech by buying a stake in Fonepay. According to Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), Khetan purchased the stake as part of a larger deal in which ten investors collectively acquired 22.23 percent of the company’s shares for around Rs1.49 billion.
🇸🇬 Coda Payments cuts loss by 34% as revenue slips to US$167.8 million. Segno Pte Ltd, the holding company of Coda, reported a net loss of US$11.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared with US$17.95 million in 2023. Continue reading
🇬🇧 Form3 co-founder Steve Cook steps down from the CTO position and takes on a strategic advisor role. Under his technology leadership, Form3 has established itself within the UK's real-time payment space, now processing more than one-third of all real-time account-to-account payments in the country.
🇺🇸 Kite raises $18M to bridge stablecoin payments and autonomous agents. Kite said it plans to expand integrations across commerce, finance, and data platforms, while positioning itself as the default stablecoin payment layer for autonomous agents.
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