Mastercard wants artificial intelligence shopping agents to use tokenized versions of consumers’ chosen cards, preserving the payment preferences, rewards and controls attached to those accounts. During Mastercard’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday (Oct. 29), CEO Michael Miebach took note of arrangements that insert a separate, one-time...
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,...
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...
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 29, 2026
Former Swift CEO Lazaro Campos joined stablecoin yield infrastructure provider OpenTrade as chair of the board, OpenTrade CEO and Co-Founder David Sutter said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) post on LinkedIn. During his 25 years at Swift, Campos led a full strategic and financial transformation of its network and helped its network volumes almost double, […]
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....
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...
