Stablecoins have pinned their corporate finance hopes on a straightforward proposition: better cross-border B2B payments. Traditional cross-border payments are constrained by banking hours, fragmented data and layers of intermediaries. Digital dollars, by contrast, can move continuously across programmable networks. But the future of that sales...
A financial market that trades around the clock can’t wait until the next banking day to settle. A business selling digital services overseas has a different problem: the product can cross the border more easily than the payment. Both issues surfaced last week at the...
Adding payment processors is relatively easy. Getting substantially better payment performance from the resulting network appears to be much harder. That distinction stands out in “Connecting What’s Next: Open Infrastructure for the Future of Commerce,” the August/September 2026 edition of the Optimizing Payments Tracker® Series...
TD says it has successfully completed a tokenized payments test on the Project Agorá platform. The test case involved carrying out a tokenized payment between TD New York Branch (TD Securities LLC) and TD Bank, N.A., in partnership with Bank of New York (BNY), the bank announced Monday (Aug. 31). “The transaction...
Watch more: Monday Conversation With SoFi’s Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore Former Visa executive Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore is three months into her new role as president of SoFi Technology Solutions. The premise guiding her strategy is that banks, credit unions and software platforms each know their customers in different...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With WEX’s Ron Griswold The linear model of traditional business payments is breaking apart thanks to embedded payments, instant rails and artificial intelligence (AI). “Payments went from being just a line on a P&L [profit and loss statement] to...
The British Treasury plans to give the Bank of England a new “secondary objective” to support innovation in payments technology and digital currencies, including stablecoins, Reuters reported Wednesday (Aug. 26). The proposed objective aims to ensure that regulation keeps up with changes in technology, and...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Jakob Harrison of FIS Jakob Harrison said he does not buy the idea that payments executives should spend their days looking over their shoulders. There are too many things to look at. Artificial intelligence is advancing. Agentic commerce...
Watch more: Need to Know With Thales’ Caio Reis Banks are rebuilding payments systems for transactions that may soon be initiated by software rather than people. That prospect changes what issuers need from the technology beneath a payment. Caio Reis, vice president of strategy at...