The stablecoin market, in an evolution that belies its own prefix, is entering a period of flux. While the stablecoin market’s first phase rewarded issuance and liquidity, this week’s headlines suggest the bigger competition is moving somewhere else. Twenty-one major financial institutions are moving forward...
Payments and treasury technologies have traditionally been positioned by the banks powering them as purely infrastructure. The same way baseball players need a field to play ball, the thinking went, financial services needed the indispensable machinery powering payments that helps clients move money, manage liquidity...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Maverick Payments’ Guy DiMaggio For all the discussion surrounding modernization in payments, the industry still depends on infrastructure built long before real-time commerce, embedded finance and API-driven integrations became standard expectations. And the question continues as to whether...
Fun raised $72 million in a Series A funding round to expand its payments infrastructure that powers Polymarket and other internet-native capital markets. The company was founded in 2022, has operated in stealth, and now processes over $18 billion in transaction volume per year, delivering a 99.999% success rate and...
September 10, 2026
Stablecoins have gotten boring, fast. That’s good news for the industry, which is working to ensure end-users stop thinking of stablecoins as “stablecoins” and start treating them as an always-on layer for moving liquidity, extending credit, and settling financial obligations. The most important stablecoin developments this week were not really about stablecoins. Across announcements from Visa, […]
September 03, 2026
The stablecoin market, in an evolution that belies its own prefix, is entering a period of flux. While the stablecoin market’s first phase rewarded issuance and liquidity, this week’s headlines...
May 28, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Maverick Payments’ Guy DiMaggio For all the discussion surrounding modernization in payments, the industry still depends on infrastructure built long before real-time commerce,...
April 17, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Lorum’s George Davis The financial system has a clearing problem, and it’s not about broken technology. It’s about who the technology was built to...
May 01, 2026
Fun raised $72 million in a Series A funding round to expand its payments infrastructure that powers Polymarket and other internet-native capital markets. The company was founded in 2022, has operated in stealth, and now processes over $18 billion in transaction volume per year, delivering a 99.999% success rate and supporting millions of users across 100 countries, it said in a Friday […]
January 05, 2026
Mastercard has granted a license to QNB Group, the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, to extend its issuing and acquiring activities in Syria, a move intended...
October 20, 2025
Loyalty technology provider Gennius XYZ selected payments processor Thredd as its global issuer-processor partner. This partnership will facilitate Gennius XYZ’s expansion into new markets and will power instant issuance, virtual...
September 24, 2025
Payments infrastructure FinTech Stripe’s valuation has reportedly reached a record $106.7 billion. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Sept. 23) by Bloomberg News, citing a person with direct knowledge of...
