PAYMENTS

Open banking

PSD2, PSD3, CMA9, FDX — open banking APIs, payment initiation, and the data-portability fabric.

3 articles

PAYMENTS & MONEY

The 2026 Global Payments Outlook: Operating Model, Risk, and Revenue in an Agentic, Invisible, Real-Time World

2026-06-25

The 2026 global payments cycle is defined by three converging forces — agentic commerce, invisible embedded payments, and real-time execution — sitting on top of a tokenised unified ledger under Project Agorá and a hard November 2026 SWIFT structured-address cut-over. This piece synthesises the J.P. Morgan, Global Payments, HSBC and Payments Association 2026 outlooks into a four-pillar G-SIB operating model.

PAYMENTS & MONEY

Cross-Border 2026: ISO 20022, Open Finance and Tokenised Deposits in Corporate Treasury

2026-06-24

Cross-border corporate treasury in 2026 is a multi-rail engineering problem. ISO 20022 is the common grammar, A2A and open finance under PSD3/FiDA are the customer-facing rail, tokenised deposits handle the wholesale settlement leg, and SWIFT still anchors the long tail. The interesting work is in the orchestration layer, not the model.

APPLIED AI

The UK Payments Forward Plan in 2026: Stablecoins, Open Banking, Tokenised Deposits, and Agentic Payments

2026-05-24

The UK Payments Forward Plan and April 2026 policy package set out a single framework for traditional payments, stablecoins, tokenised deposits, open banking, and agentic payments. The strategic question for banks is design discipline: which data, rails, controls, liabilities, and client workflows belong together — and how to evidence the orchestration to regulators.