Global

Vendoora Opens Waiting List to Help Retailers and Service Businesses Prepare for Agentic Commerce [UK]

Business Insider

“Vendoora opened the waiting list for its agentic commerce platform, built to help businesses get found, understood, recommended, and sold through AI assistants and shopping agents. Vendoora helps close that gap by cleaning, enriching, and structuring product data so it can be understood by AI assistants, LLMs, answer engines, and shopping agents. Businesses only pay […]

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Companies

Square Financial Services Introduces 3.50% APY High Yield Savings for Square Sellers

Block

“Square Financial Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Block, Inc. announced the launch of Square High Yield Savings, a new deposit tier that pays 3.50% APY to Square sellers who maintain a daily balance of $10,000 or more in their Square Savings account. The rate is more than eight times the national average savings […]

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Industry

Agentic Commerce and the ‘Legacy’ Payments Providers - The CEOs of Visa, Mastercard and Amex on Why There’s Life in the Old Dogs Yet

Diginomica

“With all things agentic top of the ‘to do’ list for both buyers and sellers, it comes as no surprise that agentic commerce is a top priority for traditional payments providers, such as the credit card companies. Recently three of the main players here – Visa, Mastercard, and American Express – outlined their thinking on […]

Companies

Stripe Helps UK Businesses Sell Globally and Build for the AI Economy

Stripe

“Stripe shared new tools to help UK businesses sell globally from expanded multi-currency treasury capabilities to new fraud defences, and the ability for UK businesses to sell across multiple AI agents through a single integration. Stripe has expanded Stripe Treasury to let UK businesses hold, convert, and move money across GBP, EUR, and USD from […]

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Companies

Europe’s Most Valuable Fintech Faces Banking-Supervision Reality

EU Today

“The issue is not whether Revolut is a successful fintech. It is one of Europe’s most prominent technology businesses. The London-based company has secured a full UK banking licence after a prolonged regulatory process, and has built a business that extends beyond foreign exchange and card payments into savings, investments, crypto, lending, subscriptions and other […]

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Companies

Cash App Launches $40 Mobile Virtual Operator (MVNO) to Deepen Fintech Ecosystem

Tech Buzz

“Cash App, owned by Block, is jumping into the mobile carrier business with a $40-per-month unlimited 5G plan. The move mirrors Klarna’s 2025 playbook almost perfectly. It’s rolling out to select users now, with broader availability coming in the next few months as the fintech giant tries to become the everything app for its user […]

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Industry

Education: A 65-Year-Old Programming Language Called Cobol Still Quietly Processes over $3 Trillion in Banking Transactions Every Single Day

Make Tech Easier

“The next time you use an ATM, transfer money between accounts, or swipe a credit card at a checkout, there is a strong chance that somewhere behind the scenes — invisible, silent, and almost certainly running on a mainframe older than most of the building it sits in — a programming language called COBOL is […]

Regulation

GENIUS Act: Reporting Forms and Instructions for Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

“The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is proposing a new information collection that would include weekly and quarterly reporting forms that must be completed by permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers registered with the OCC under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. Comments are […]

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Companies

Adyen to Acquire Orb to Unify Billing and Payments Infrastructure for Enterprise Merchants

Adyen

“Adyen announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire enterprise billing platform Orb through a reverse triangular merger. Upon closing, Orb will become an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary managed under an incubator model. The total consideration for the transaction is $335 million, which Adyen will finance entirely from available cash resources. Headquartered in […]

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Industry

Maxio Launches the First Native Surcharging for B2B SaaS and AI Companies

Business Wire

“Maxio, a platform for billing automation and revenue management for B2B SaaS and AI companies, announced the launch of surcharging in Maxio Payments, the first native solution built specifically for subscription businesses. The new capability enables SaaS and AI companies to stop absorbing credit card processing fees and recover those costs directly within their existing […]

Companies

Zelle® Heads to India, Unveils ZelleUSD Stablecoin For Other Markets

Early Warning

“Early Warning Services LLC, the network operator of Zelle, announced that India will be the first country where U.S. consumers can use Zelle to send money overseas. As the world’s largest recipient of remittances, India is an important corridor for millions of American consumers who regularly send money to the country. Availability is expected before […]

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Industry

Mastercard Opens Card Rails to AI Agents With 30-Plus Crypto Partners

Defiant

“Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), extending its payments network to AI agents with 30-plus crypto and fintech partners including Coinbase, RippleX, Solana Foundation, Polygon, Aave Labs and Stellar. Agent Pay for Machines positions Mastercard’s network as the governance and trust layer for commerce conducted entirely between software agents, without human checkout flows. The […]

Global

More than 60% of Pix Automático Users Are Brand-New Consumers

EBANX

“Ahead of its first anniversary on June 16, Pix Automático, the recurring billing feature of Pix, Brazil’s widely popular instant payment system, has become a key driver of new customer acquisition for global companies with subscription business models operating in the country. New data from EBANX reveal that 64% of consumers paying with Pix Automático […]

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Industry

Unstructured Data Needed, but Often Untapped, for Agentic AI

TechTarget

“While structured data such as financial records and point-of-sale transactions provides key information and is critical when building analytics and AI tools, unstructured data such as text in documents and emails and audio from customer interactions adds vital context that structured data can’t provide. Autonomous AI applications require vast amounts of high-quality, contextually relevant data to deliver […]

Companies

The Rise of the Modern Earner Economy

Block

“For a growing number of Americans, income no longer exclusively comes from one employer or one predictable paycheck. In a new white paper, The Modern Earner Economy: How Changes in Earning Are Reshaping Financial Services, Cash App shares insights from customer data and survey research. Among Cash App monthly actives, 70% earn income beyond a […]

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