Visa expects its roster of nearly 50 artificial intelligence partners in production to double in the coming months, as it prepares to handle purchases that consumers and businesses delegate to software. The immediate focus is establishing the authority behind those purchases. During Visa’s fiscal fourth-quarter...
It has been a busy week so far for blockchain company Ripple. The company received regulatory permission to begin operating its own bank, Ripple National Trust Bank, according to a Monday (Oct. 26) press release, and on Tuesday (Oct. 27) announced new partnerships with BNY...
Canada began a 60-day consultation period on draft stablecoin regulations, CoinDesk reported Monday (Oct. 26). The regulations uphold a ban on yield payments and require nonbank issuers to keep their reserves with Canadian financial institutions, the report said. The consultation, which ends Dec. 23, is...
Days after issuing the final rule to implement the GENIUS Act, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) encouraged community banks to develop payment stablecoin capabilities. “The OCC wants community banks to help shape the future of payments and is encouraging the development of payment stablecoin...
October 27, 2026
Visa expects its roster of nearly 50 artificial intelligence partners in production to double in the coming months, as it prepares to handle purchases that consumers and businesses delegate to software. The immediate focus is establishing the authority behind those purchases. During Visa’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday (Oct. 27) after the markets closed, […]
October 22, 2026
The week in digital assets was dominated by regulation. The net-net of a wild week? Banks face renewed competition for customers’ cash after federal regulators left room for cryptocurrency platforms...
October 22, 2026
Digital money is pushing banks toward making decisions about infrastructure well beyond whether to issue a token. Among the decisions that need to be made: Which forms of digital money...
October 21, 2026
Watch more: Paymentology Says AI Agents Must Earn the Right to Move Money The stablecoin industry has spent possibly too much time trying to reinvent checkout. Consumers already have a...
October 28, 2026
Ripple has begun listing its RLUSD stablecoin on Coinbase’s institutional and retail platforms. Clients can now trade and manage RLUSD through Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Exchange, and the Coinbase Retail application, Ripple announced Wednesday (Oct. 28), with availability on Coinbase Global Exchange, including the use of RLUSD as trading collateral, set to follow. “Institutional appetite for compliant, high-quality stablecoins is clear,” Jack […]
October 27, 2026
It has been a busy week so far for blockchain company Ripple. The company received regulatory permission to begin operating its own bank, Ripple National Trust Bank, according to a...
October 26, 2026
Canada began a 60-day consultation period on draft stablecoin regulations, CoinDesk reported Monday (Oct. 26). The regulations uphold a ban on yield payments and require nonbank issuers to keep their...
October 26, 2026
Days after issuing the final rule to implement the GENIUS Act, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) encouraged community banks to develop payment stablecoin capabilities. “The OCC wants community banks...
