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Mastercard Launches New Global Crypto Partner Program With 85 Firms to Accelerate Payments

Mastercard moves to link traditional finance and crypto infrastructure through a sweeping global partner program, assembling dozens of industry players to accelerate blockchain-powered payments,...

Swift Accelerates Consumer Payments Transformation with new Retail Transaction Framework

Consumers and small businesses receiving payments across the globe will soon benefit from a pioneering new framework rolled out by Swift and a coalition...

Binance, PayPal, and Ripple join Mastercard’s massive new push into blockchain payments

Mastercard has launched a new Crypto Partner Program that brings together more than 85 companies from across the digital asset and payments industries, an...

Coinbase-backed AI payments protocol wants to fix micropayment but demand is just not there yet

Since the emergence of ChatGPT and chatbots, the artificial intelligence (AI) hype has evolved into "agentic payments," billed as the next wave of internet...

Stablecoin Fintech KAST Raises $80M Series A to Build Global Digital Dollar Payments Platform

Stablecoin-powered fintech platform KAST has secured $80 million in Series A funding as investors place fresh bets on digital-dollar infrastructure designed to move money...

Ripple Seeks Australian Financial License to ‘Scale’ Payments Across the Region

In brief Ripple plans to secure an Australian Financial Services License by acquiring BC Payments. APAC payments volume nearly doubled in 2025, with several Australian firms...

Blockstream’s Jade Hardware Wallet Adds Lightning Support For Instant Bitcoin Payments

Hardware wallets have long been the gold standard for securing bitcoin, but they have remained largely disconnected from the fast-moving world of...

Stablecoins are starting to reshape payments and banking, Macquarie says

Stablecoins are evolving from a niche crypto trading tool into a potential layer of global financial infrastructure, according to Australian investment bank Macquarie.While most...

Global insurance broker Aon tests stablecoin payments on Ethereum, Solana with Coinbase, Paxos

Aon (AON), which advises on $5 trillion in assets as one of the world's largest insurance brokers, said it carried out a proof-of-concept using...

Stablecoin payments platform KAST raises $80 million Series A at $600 million valuation

KAST, a stablecoin-powered financial platform focused on cross-border payments, raised $80 million in Series A funding led by QED Investors and Left Lane Capital,...

Brazil Opens up Pix Payments to Brazilians Living in Argentina

Banco Central do Brasil said on Friday that it expanded its Pix digital payments system to allow Brazilians living in Argentina to access the...