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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...

SumUp Expands Form3 Partnership to Bring Real-Time SEPA Payments to Millions of European SMEs

SumUp, the global financial technology company, significantly expanded  its partnership with Form3, a secure cloud-native account-to-account global payments platform. The expanded agreement sees SumUp...

Ripple’s Global Payments Expansion Strengthens XRP’s Institutional Role

Ripple’s global payments network is rapidly expanding as financial institutions increasingly seek full-service blockchain infrastructure partners, positioning Ripple’s ecosystem and XRP liquidity framework at...

dLocal and Open English Introduce Bre-B Instant Payments to Eliminate Checkout Friction in Colombia

dLocal, the cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, and Open English, a leading online English-learning platform, have rolled out Bre-B as...

Circle shifts $68 million in internal payments via its own stablecoin to bypass legacy banks

Circle has begun using its own stablecoin infrastructure to move money between internal entities, settling $68 million in transfers using USDC, CEO Jeremy Allaire...

Tardven Token: Everything You Need to Know About This Promising AI-Blockchain Fusion That’s Set to Reshape Digital Payments and Intelligent Ecosystems Worldwide

In the modern blistering technology realm, artificial intelligence has long since ceased to be a subject of laboratory research and it penetrated to the...