Finance
KB Kookmin Bank Partners JPMorgan to Bring Blockchain-Based Corporate Payments to Korean Businesses
South Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank is expanding its use of blockchain infrastructure through a partnership with JPMorgan, launching a corporate payment service designed ...
Finance
DBS and Citi Complete Weekend US Dollar Payment Using Tokenised Deposits
Singapore-based DBS and Citigroup have completed a cross-border US dollar payment between Singapore and the United States using tokenised deposits, demonstrating how blockchain-based ...
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Instant Payments Can’t Be Undone. Visa Wants to Be the One That Stops the Fraud
Instant bank-to-bank transfers are one of the great conveniences of modern payments and one of its great vulnerabilities. Money moves in seconds and, ...
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TabaPay Is Buying Its Own Bank. The Ghost of Synapse Explains Why
TabaPay, a payments-infrastructure company that moves money for fintechs and lenders, has raised $155 million and announced it is buying a bank. The ...
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America’s Community Banks Are Building Their Own Blockchain. It’s Really a Defense of Their Deposits
Thirty-nine state bankers associations have joined forces to build something their industry has never had: a blockchain network the banks themselves own. Called ...
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India Wants AI Agents Paying on UPI, as a Public Standard, Not a Corporate One
Around the world, the race to let AI agents make payments has been a corporate scramble, with Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and others each ...
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PayInit and Mastercard Bring Swiss Peer-to-Peer Payments to Cross-Border Transactions
Swiss payments platform PayInit and Mastercard are expanding peer-to-peer payment capabilities beyond Switzerland, allowing customers to send money internationally through participating banking apps ...
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India Prepares Agentic Payments on UPI as AI Enters Everyday Transactions
India is preparing to introduce an agentic payments framework on UPI, potentially allowing AI agents to execute small-value transactions on behalf of users ...
Finance
Every UK Fintech Is Chasing America. Allica Went to Sweden Instead
There is a stampede happening in British fintech, and almost everyone is running the same direction. Revolut, Klarna, and others have been applying ...
Finance
PayPal Turned Down $53 Billion. When the Buyer Walked, Its Stock Paid the Price
There is a certain symbolism in the deal that just fell apart. Stripe, the private upstart that has spent a decade eating the ...


















