Shinhan Financial Group (55550) and Visa will jointly build stablecoin infrastructure and AI-powered payment models in South Korea, marking the first adoption of Visa's enterprise stablecoin platform …
Shinhan Financial Group has signed a strategic agreement with Visa to build stablecoin payment infrastructure and expand into AI-powered payments, with initial work focusing on testing the issuance, t…
Goldman Sachs reports that hedge funds and mutual funds have both increased their holdings in financial stocks to historic levels, with hedge funds' net tilt rising by over 300 basis points in Q2 to t…
Singapore-based AI firms now enter an average of seven new markets just one year after inception, according to a Stripe survey, as Asian tech founders increasingly prioritize global expansion from the…
Stripe is preparing to let consumers fund AI agents that can make purchases without securing approval for every transaction, according to a Link setup screen published by Jane Manchun Wong on Monday. …
On August 18, 2026, stablecoin infrastructure company Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance, a 26-member coalition including Visa, Mastercard, Circle, the Solana Foundation, Uniswap Labs, Fiserv…
Fasset, a stablecoin neobank, has achieved a $1 billion valuation after a $68 million Series C round led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to over $150 million, backed by 12 consecutive months …
Coinbase's x402 payment protocol has processed over 165 million payments worth $50 million, with about 99% using USDC, according to Lincoln Murr, Coinbase's head of AI product. Major payments players …
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst revealed at the Usenix Cybersecurity Conference that fraudsters can 'zombify' expired Visa credit cards to make contactless payments by proxying …
An automated buyer test of 20 Shopify stores with verified UCP manifests found that only 65% reached checkout, while 25% silently failed at add-to-cart, according to a developer who published the resu…
Proof launched x401 v0.1.0 on June 25, 2026, an open, issuer-neutral HTTP protocol that uses a 4-node delegation chain to verify the identity and authorization behind AI agents, addressing a gap in ex…
On August 18, 2026, Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of 26 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, and Solana, to define technical and operational st…
Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach is preparing the payments giant for a future where AI agents shop online, introducing 'Agent Pay' in April 2024 to vet and tokenize transactions made by AI agents. The c…
Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto arm of Fidelity Investments, warned in a Wednesday report that AI-driven activity may not translate into more value for crypto investors, as competitive advantages …
Rain, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) with founding members Visa, Mastercard, Circle, Solana, and Remitly to develop standards for AI-agent-…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, giving AI agents programmable, two-tier wallets with spending caps and verifiable identities, built on the x402 protocol. …
Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance with more than 25 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Solana, Avalanche, Circle, Fireblocks, and Chainalysis to establish standards for AI agent tr…
Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure platform that has secured over $14 trillion in transactions, joined the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) as a founding member on August 18, alongside Visa, Ma…
AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with the broader ecosystem processing 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume, according to the…
Synchrony Financial has not confirmed any partnership with OpenAI to integrate its financing into ChatGPT shopping, according to research cited by the article. OpenAI launched its Agentic Commerce Pro…