{
  "id": 4911526,
  "title": "FIS and Ericsson Team to Improve Wallet-Led Financial Services",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/fis-and-ericsson-team-to-improve-wallet-led-financial-services",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-01T18:00:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/partnerships/2026/fis-and-ericsson-team-to-improve-wallet-led-financial-services/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "FIS and Ericsson have joined forces to enhance \"wallet-led\" financial services. This collaboration will integrate FIS's payment and issuing capabilities with Ericsson's Fintech Platform, enabling clients to roll out digital wallet experiences on a large scale. The companies made the announcement on Tuesday, September 1st. Stephanie Ferris, FIS's president and CEO, highlighted the speed at which organizations wish to launch these services, but often face challenges due to fragmented infrastructure and complex integrations. Ferris added that through their partnership with Ericsson, FIS aims to eliminate this friction by providing trusted capabilities that span the entire money lifecycle, streamlining the transition from concept to deployment.\n\nEricsson's Fintech Platform processes around $80 billion in monthly transaction value across 24 countries. It offers wallet infrastructure, digital identity, ledger capabilities, and ecosystem orchestration. Börje Ekholm, Ericsson's president and CEO, stated that as money and value exchange become increasingly digital, Ericsson's FinTech offerings provide confidence to CSPs, enterprises, and broader segments to innovate and scale. The convergence of connectivity and finance around mobile payments and wallet-led financial services presents a significant growth opportunity for Ericsson. The partnership between FIS and Ericsson is seen as a unique blend of global leadership, scale, trust, and commitment to this emerging market.\n\nIn a separate analysis, PYMNTS Intelligence, in collaboration with FIS, explored the challenges faced by merchants in offering personalized promotions. The research, based on a survey of 60 grocery, retail, and restaurant and food service merchants, found that 65% of respondents said access to data moderately, significantly, or critically hinders their ability to offer personalized promotions. Despite many merchants considering their data capabilities advanced or highly advanced, only 27% could provide real-time one-to-one offers, while 40% focused on mass-market or segment-based personalization. This gap between possessing customer data and effectively using it during individual transactions creates an opportunity for collaboration between FIS and Ericsson to bridge the gap and enhance the wallet-led financial services experience.",
  "summary": "FIS has launched a collaboration with tech company Ericsson centered around “wallet-led” financial services. The partnership will see FIS payments and issuing capabilities integrated with the Ericsson Fintech Platform, helping clients deploy digital wallet experiences at scale and offer consumers a more direct route to their money, the companies announced Tuesday (Sept. 1). “Organizations want…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Finextra",
        "title": "FIS and Ericsson combine on wallet-led financial services",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/fis-and-ericsson-combine-on-wallet-led-financial-services",
        "published": "2026-09-01T13:40:39.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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