Digital wallets stories

Singapore’s Atlantis Lab has launched Atlantis, a web hub unifying crypto wallets and exchanges while keeping users in full self-custody control.

Revolut launches RevPoints in New Zealand, offering uncapped rewards on everyday spending redeemable for travel, airline miles and gift cards.

Ant backs Google’s new Universal Commerce Protocol to standardise how AI agents handle shopping, payments and post-purchase support.

Ant International taps AI-driven fintech to power over 2 billion cross-border payments and turbocharge SME growth in emerging markets.

Madhya Pradesh will digitise up to 50 million university records on Open Campus’s EDU Chain in an 18-month blockchain credential push.

Paydibs backs direct access to Malaysia’s payment rails and global wallets to cut costs, speed settlements and boost SME resilience.

Retailers urged to brace for early-year spike in chargebacks as mobile shopping and buy now, pay later fuel record US holiday spend.

Younger shoppers embrace digital wallets and self-checkouts as older customers stick with cards and staff, widening a payments generation gap.

Mastercard and TerraPay team up to let mobile wallet users tap and pay at over 150 million Mastercard contactless locations worldwide.

Exactly.com predicts AI agents, social commerce and omnichannel retail will redefine trust, convenience and control in 2026 shopping.

Yubico experts say 2026 will redefine authentication, with post-quantum security, digital ID wallets and AI-driven threats converging.

Tiny Away now lets guests book eco tiny houses with Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT, offering 20% off crypto stays via Coinbase Commerce.

10x Banking and Singapore’s audax have teamed up to help banks launch full digital services in six months while phasing out legacy cores.

AI-driven fraud, deepfakes and synthetic IDs are redefining 2026 risk, forcing firms to ditch reactive tools for layered, intelligent defence.

OpenID will launch global conformance tests for key digital ID standards from February 2026, supporting eIDAS 2.0 and other schemes.

Daon predicts 2026 digital identity will be reshaped by state-backed ID wallets, deepfake defence, AI ‘agents’ and continuous workforce checks.

North Korean hackers stole USD $300M via fake Zoom calls; robust identity checks could have broken the scam’s chain of trust.

AI tools and online deals help drive a 5% rise in Australian Christmas retail spending, with discount and department stores surging.

Digital wallets and decentralised IDs are set to surge by 2026 as AI-driven threats push firms to monitor human and machine identities nonstop.

Boku lifts H1 revenue 34% and EBITDA 53% as merchants shift from cards to wallets, pushing payment volumes to $7.4 billion.