Bank of America today announced plans to launch a cross-border real-time payments solution that will enable its corporate, commercial and financial institution clients to send and receive funds instantly through Swift or the bank’s flagship digital platform, CashPro®. The service will offer real‑time payment tracking, full-principal preservation and lower costs.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, today unveiled the startups selected for its 2026 Start-Up Media Session, held live at the event in Amsterdam. This year’s cohort represents breakthrough innovation across AI-native finance, fraud prevention, digital assets, trust infrastructure, and modular banking technology.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, and the place where money does business, today convened senior policymakers, regulators, central banks, supervisors, and industry leaders for Policy 20 at Money20/20 Europe. The session held at the RAI in Amsterdam was a high-level forum focused on one of the defining challenges facing financial services: the cross-border implications of diverging policies, implementation, and technological momentum.

Today, Triple-A, a licensed global payment institution, announces the launch of the European rollout of stablecoin-enabled Multicurrency Accounts, giving global businesses access to local banking collection rails without the need to set up a local entity. Targeted towards businesses with European customers and cross-border money movement needs, it provides a named EUR International Bank Account Number (IBAN) and enables the end-user to settle funds to their bank account, send them directly into stablecoin, or into local currency payouts in over 70 countries.

Lorikeet today announced self-optimising agents, giving regulated businesses a way to test and improve their AI support agent against thousands of customer scenarios before it ever talks to a real customer.

Wallester UK has been authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), establishing a regulated foundation for its operations in the United Kingdom and advancing the company's international expansion strategy.

XTransfer, the world’s leading B2B cross-border trade payment platform, and Societe Generale, a leading European bank in transaction banking, announced having signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during Money20/20 Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, to enhance cross-border payment infrastructure and develop integrated financial solutions to support international trade flows.

Consequently, banking software has remained stuck in a "copilot" model—where an AI simply summarizes data or suggests actions to a human operator. Experian’s Agent Operating System fundamentally breaks this pattern, introducing an agentic software layer embedded natively within the Experian Ascend Platform (which services over 2,300 global enterprises).

Clear Junction Group, a global payments infrastructure provider serving financial institutions and cryptoasset businesses, has announced a UK-focused partnership between Clear Junction Digital Limited and Agant to support institutional access to GBPA, Agant’s Pound sterling stablecoin.

Today at Money2020, UK Payments Initiative Ltd (UKPI) launched a scheme designed for the next-generation of open banking payments, marking a turning point in the availability of alternatives to traditional card-based and direct debit payments.

Da Nang, Vietnam: Organised by Aeternum and co-hosted with the Da Nang Innovation Start Support Center (DISSC), with institutional participation from the Da Nang People’s Committee, the State Securities Commission of Vietnam, and the Da Nang Department of Science and Technology, the summit drew over 2,150 registrations and welcomed more than 500 delegates, including senior policymakers, institutional leaders, founders, investors, and technology builders from across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America.

Lorum today announced the upcoming launch of a yield-bearing capability within its cash management offering for institutional treasurers. The capability extends Lorum's existing cash management service, giving treasurers access to money market instruments alongside the multi-currency clearing, custody, and FX they already use, through a single account structure. Clients will be able to earn yield on idle balances held on the platform, including dollars held for foreign exchange execution, operational liquidity buffers, and funding held between collection and payout cycles.

LSEG Risk Intelligence today announced, at Money 20/20 Europe, the launch of Identity Gateway, a new technology infrastructure layer designed to simplify access to trusted digital identity schemes.

Today Hey Savi launched UK’s first agentic commerce experience with native checkout powered by PayPal. The app is the first of its kind AI-powered, brand agnostic fashion search platform for women, making it easier for shoppers to find, compare and buy must-have styles without leaving the app. Debenhams Group - including the Group brands Debenhams, Karen Millen, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing – is the first retailer in the UK to bring end-to-end AI-powered shopping to UK consumers.

At Money 20/20, Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services, and ING, a global financial institution with a strong European base, announce the successful execution of Europe's first end-to-end agentic payment transaction in production with Mastercard.