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Episode 293 - Unlocking Merchant Growth in Emerging Markets, with João Del Valle, EBANX

In this episode, Drew Edmond is joined by João Del Valle, CEO and co-founder of EBANX, to talk about the origin story of EBANX, why Brazil has historically been such a difficult market for non-Brazilian merchants, and what João has learned as the company has expanded into new regions. Listen in as they cover some of the biggest topics shaping the next phase of global payments, including Pix and Pix Automático in Brazil, payment optimization when looking at local payment methods, and perspectives on agentic commerce and stablecoins.
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Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines to Unlock Super-Fast, Always-on Payments

Mastercard

“Mastercard envisions a future where businesses create services for AI agents to buy and use. To enable this new form of commerce, Mastercard developed a new way to pay for these services: payments, some only fractions of a cent, to be completed quickly, programmatically and securely. Today, the company is introducing Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a new service that will […]
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Four Takeaways on AI’s Next Phase in Payments

JPMorgan

“As part of New York Tech Week 2026, J.P. Morgan Payments and Tech:NYC hosted a chat between Zack Anderson, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at J.P. Morgan Payments, and Bloomberg Reporter Paige Smith. The conversation covered questions in payments and infrastructure: how banks have evolved their relationship with AI, what it means to operate agentic […]
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Big Banks May Have Found Their Answer to the Clarity Act’s Stablecoin Challenge

CryptoSlate

“The Clearing House is preparing a system that lets banks settle deposits on-chain. Its June 5 announcement puts the largest U.S. banks behind a response to the stablecoin challenge: dollar payments can move around the clock, across blockchain rails, with programmable settlement. Banks want those features while retaining the customer balances, compliance controls, and deposit […]
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