Italian Central Bank: Stablecoins Can’t Beat Traditional Payments
Stablecoins make perfect sense on paper. It goes without saying that if you replace a chain of correspondent…
Old B2B Invoices Could Decide $100 Billion in Tariff Refunds
The $100 billion U.S. tariff unwind isn’t just a legal exercise for enterprise firms; it’s exposing a crucial…
The $100 Million Question Facing Stablecoins’ Corporate Future
A Fortune 500 treasurer considering whether to leave $100 million in stablecoins overnight would probably ask a different…
Amex Ventures Funds Fazeshift’s Agentic AI Expansion
Fazeshift has secured an investment from Amex Ventures to help expand its artificial intelligence agent platform beyond accounts…
Federal Reserve Readies Pilot Survey to Gauge Private Credit
The organizations expect to launch the survey after the end of the third quarter and publish aggregate level…
AI Agents Need Rules Before They Can Run Payments
Moving from manual work and processes to copilots and then to agents means a sea change in how…
Lithic: What Payments Assumes About Shopping Is About to Break
For the past 25 years, card-not-present payments have been built around a defensive premise: Prove the buyer is…
Visa and Lianlian Take Agentic AI Into B2B Payments
Visa and Lianlian Take Agentic AI Into B2B Payments Visa and Chinese fintech Lianlian have completed what they…
Ramp Opens Stablecoin Accounts to Business Clients
Financial operations platform Ramp says it has begun offering customers stablecoin accounts and payments. The new offering, announced…
The Stablecoin Speed Pitch Just Met SEPA In Europe
Stablecoin advocates have argued that blockchain networks can and will solve problems traditional banking never could. Payments would…
Global Payments May Feel US CBDC Ban First
Nothing visibly changed in American payments when the clock struck midnight on Saturday (July 11). Consumers still used…
Europe’s Central Bank Suffers 2 Payments Outages in 1 Week
The European Central Bank’s payment system has experienced two outages in one week. The bank’s T2 system suffered an…