Industry

Interpol Leverages Global System to Curtail Fraud Payments

Dark Reading

“Earlier this month, Interpol revealed that authorities in Singapore and Oman used a worldwide network of law enforcement agencies and financial organizations to halt a $6.6 million payoff from a business email compromise (BEC) scam, part of Operation First Light 2026, which — among other milestones — blocked more than 31,000 bank accounts linked to […]

Companies

Circle Granted Trust Charter by the New York Department of Financial Services

Circle

“Circle Internet Group, Inc. announced that it has received a limited purpose trust charter from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for Circle Internet Trust Company LLC, d/b/a Circle New York Trust. Circle’s New York trust charter underscores Circle’s commitment to the highest standards of safety, transparency, and compliance. In 2015, Circle became […]

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Companies

BIS Project Agorá Settles $1 Million in Tokenized Cross-Border Payment Trials

Cointelegraph

“The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Project Agorá completed real-value testing of tokenized wholesale cross-border payments, with 28 financial institutions and central banks settling 800,000 Swiss francs ($1 million) across 17 transaction scenarios. The BIS said that the tests used tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits to settle payments in Swiss francs, […]

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Companies

Visa to Integrate Stablecoin Platform with Pismo, Flags Acquisition Appetite

Ledger Insights

“Visa will integrate the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) with its Pismo subsidiary and is willing to pursue acquisitions across the stablecoin stack, CEO Ryan McInerney disclosed during the company’s Q3 earnings call. McInerney framed the company’s stablecoin involvement around four modes of participation, stating Visa will engage “whether through building Visa products and services, integrating […]

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Industry

The Real Fight in Agentic Commerce Isn’t Autonomy. It’s Authorization

TechRadar

“The conversation about AI and shopping is happening in the wrong place. The more consequential shift is happening somewhere far less visible: inside payment networks, authorization protocols and the systems that decide whether software is allowed to spend money on our behalf. The technical capability for an AI agent to complete a purchase has existed […]

Companies

Alkami Expands Partnership with Plaid to Deliver Connected Digital Banking Experiences

Alkami Technology

“Alkami Technology, Inc., a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., announced the expansion of its partnership with Plaid, the data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. Through a pre-built integration within the Alkami Digital Banking Platform, financial institutions can allow account holders to link external accounts instantly, see all their transactions […]

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Companies

Consumers Are Ready for AI to Shop. They Are Not Ready for It to Pay.

Nuvei

“Consumers have accepted AI as a way to think about a purchase. They have not accepted it as a way to complete one. The reasons they give are specific enough to read as a product requirement, and almost all of them sit in the payment layer rather than the model. The Nuvei data shows that […]

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Global

Preparing Your Business for Card Surcharge Changes from 1 October 2026 [Australia]

CommBank

“From 1 October 2026, businesses will no longer be able to apply surcharges to designated debit, prepaid and credit card payments across eftpos, Mastercard, Visa and American Express networks. The RBA also announced broader changes to card payment costs and transparency, including: Lower domestic interchange fee caps from 1 October 2026. New interchange caps for […]

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Companies

FedNow Turns Three: The Next Growth Opportunity for Regional Banks

Finzly, Inc.

“While regional banks represent only a small fraction of FedNow participants today, there is still significant runway to use real-time payments as a foundation for commercial banking growth. FedNow just reached its third anniversary, and the adoption story reveals an important opportunity. More than 1,800 financial institutions are now live on the network—but participation remains […]

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Companies

Education: Anyone Can be a Victim: Understanding Scam Risk Across Customer Segments

FedPayments Improvement

“Criminals don’t always choose victims at random. While many scams are broad and opportunistic, criminals also segment, personalize, test and refine their tactics. To understand how various groups are targeted and what financial institutions can do about it, we will begin with the psychology that drives modern scams operations. This introductory article sets the foundation […]

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Companies

Large Gains in Same Day ACH Help Drive ACH Network in Second Quarter of 2026

Nacha

“A nearly 30% jump in the number of Same Day ACH payments and a nearly 10% increase in business-to-business payments helped drive the ACH Network’s second quarter 2026 growth. For the quarter, volume on the ACH Network totaled 9.3 billion payments valued at $25.9 trillion, respective increases of 6.2% and 11.1% over the same period […]

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Industry

European Commission Publishes Final Guidelines on AI Transparency Obligations

Lexology

“On July 20, 2026, the European Commission published the final, non-legally binding guidelines on transparency obligations for providers and deployers of AI systems. Providers of AI systems designed to interact directly with natural persons, such as chatbots, must ensure individuals are informed they are interacting with an AI system, unless this is obvious from the […]

Companies

Agentic Commerce: A New Chapter for Instant Payments

Citi

“Agentic commerce is the new frontier where AI agents execute e-commerce transactions on behalf of consumers demanding payment rails optimized for speed security and cost. Instant payments are uniquely positioned to power agentic commerce by providing the speed, finality, and rich data reconciliation that machine-native API-driven transactions require. Markets like India, Brazil, and Thailand have […]

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Companies

Visa’s $4T Bet: The Largest Payment Network Declares Agentic Commerce a Growth Driver

Forkast

“During Visa’s Q3 FY2026 earnings call on July 28, CEO Ryan McInerney positioned agentic commerce as the next major adoption curve, explicitly linking it to the historical trajectories of e-commerce, mobile payments, and tokenization. For an organization that just saw its payments volume surpass $4 trillion for the first time, this is a clear signal: […]

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Industry

AI Shopping Agents Processed 120 Million Transactions In A Single Week As Agentic Commerce Moves From Theory To Checkout [Alipay’s AI Pay Platform]

SMB Tech

“AI-powered shopping agents completed more than 120 million transactions through Alipay’s AI Pay platform in a single week in February 2026, according to data cited in a new NielsenIQ report that charts the emergence of agentic commerce as a phenomenon rather than a theoretical projection. But NielsenIQ’s own data reveals a clear gap between AI […]