Stablecoins, AI advisors, payments, and the technology rewriting finance.
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Western Union on August 4 launched Stablecard with stablecoin infrastructure firm Rain — a USDPT wallet paired with a Visa secured credit card, rolling out in 37 markets with a target of more than 60 by year-end, Crowdfund Insider reported.
YC's Q3 batch features a heavier mix of AI agents, humanoid robotics, and 'boring but profitable' SaaS companies than the previous two batches, TechCrunch reports.
Amid geopolitical barriers that risk slowing progress and trade, Europe can become a trusted connector, the FT argues.
Ecommerce giant has roughly 5% stake in AI lab after equity deal, the FT reports.
The bank, which services about $8.6 trillion in assets, will record official fund ownership on Ethereum and Solana in the first phase of a tokenization push rivals are racing to match.
Investors say the hedge fund deal reassured jittery traders in tech stocks, the FT reports.
Factories churning out servers for data centers are pushing exports to record levels, the FT reports.
Stablecoins have moved from crypto niche to institutional infrastructure. Here's what three competing views predict next.
The card, issued in partnership with Celtic Bank, earns 2% on Stripe-processed volume and 1% on everything else. The company is positioning the product against Brex and Ramp for the under-50-employee segment.
The milestone completes a month of regulatory consolidation — an OCC national trust bank charter and 680+ IBM blockchain patents — though the stock fell 7% after Bernstein cut its target.
Three heavyweights of payments and capital markets are staking on Stellar, signaling that enterprise-grade blockchain rails have moved past pilot season.
Open Standard's dollar-pegged Open USD is confirmed for an Ethereum day-one launch, with BNY Mellon as custody partner and Stripe's Bridge CEO Zach Abrams at the helm.
Stripe paid $1.1 billion for Bridge in November 2025. Mastercard, Coinbase, and Stripe have all built stablecoin enterprise services. Visa is still watching. The four-way race for the AI-and-stablecoin payments stack is on.
ChangXin Memory's IPO marks the public-market debut of China's leading domestic DRAM maker. For China's fintech stack - from card chips to HSM-equipped data centers - the listing is the foundation of a sovereign compute base.
Eight months after Stripe's $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, the unit has been rebuilt into an enterprise-grade stablecoin API. Stripe is now layering Coinbase and Mastercard partnerships on top of that foundation.
Visa has published its 2026 Global Payments Forecast, identifying six trends that will reshape cross-border commerce: AI, identity security, cross-network orchestration, stablecoins, central-bank digital currencies, and emerging-market digitization.
Industry insiders disagree on whether stablecoins are a fad, a niche, or truly transformational. A new survey from the Digital Finance Group maps the three positions - and how Stripe, Adyen, Visa, and PayPal are positioning around each.
Stripe paid $1.1 billion for Bridge. Mastercard and Coinbase launched a joint stablecoin service. The GENIUS Act is advancing. And China's CBDC pilot has crossed 260 million users. Four constituencies are now fighting for control of the next payment stack.
Stablecoin transaction volume has surpassed traditional wire transfers. As regulation clarifies, major banks are scrambling to launch their own digital dollar products.
Visa is settling transactions between partner banks using stablecoins on a permissioned chain, cutting cross-border settlement from days to seconds across 12 corridors.
Automated investment platforms are managing more assets than ever. The new generation goes beyond robo-advisors, offering personalized financial planning powered by AI.