Digital Currency

Two of the world’s largest payments networks early Thursday announced programs geared to bring stablecoins further into the mainstream of money movement. Visa Inc. said its Visa Direct faster-payments platform is launching a commercial service that will incorporate stablecoins. And Mastercard Inc., with its BVNK unit, launched Mastercard Global Money …

Accertify Inc. released a post outlining the distinction between agentic shopping and agentic checkout, concluding that agentic checkout, when an AI completes a purchase on its own, is less than 1% of transactions measured in basis points per Accertify data. Independent sales organization Deposyt expanded its partner program to three …

The stablecoin platform Rain announced early Tuesday it is offering non-custodial stablecoin wallets that stand behind Rain’s cards, making the cards usable at 175 million merchant locations around the world, the New York City-based company says. Founded five years ago, Rain became a Visa principal member in 2024, following up …

Visa Inc. said the People’s Bank of China has approved the global payment network’s Application to Prepare, a step toward the establishment of a domestic bank-card clearing institution in China. Visa’s goal is to establish processing for domestic payments in that country. Euna Solutions, a technology provider for the public sector, …

The Solana Foundation said Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay will support stablecoins on Solana’s blockchain, enabling U.S. wallet users to send money cross border using Circle Internet’s USDC stablecoin starting the last week of this month. There are 82 million active Samsung Galaxy mobile devices in the U.S. market and …

Ransomware victims around the world totaled 2,760 in the third quarter, up 21% from the second quarter and 75% from the same period last year, according to the Q3 2026 Ransomware and Cyber Threat Insights Report from GuidePoint Security. Hospitality technology provider Mews released survey results that found 89% of guests …

Banking infrastructure provider Increase said it will use services from Spade to enable real-time merchant data for card transactions to appear on statements provided to consumers. FIS Inc. also said it would use Spade to provide clearer debit card descriptors. PAR Technology Corp. updated Bridg, its identity resolution and shopper …

Invoice-management platform Basware has closed on its acquisition of Trustpair, a fraud-prevention technology provider focused on payments. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was announced in late August. The digital-asset trading platform XT Exchange launched a scan-to-pay capability for its XT Pay service, allowing XT app users to make purchases …

Exodus Movement Inc. has launched Exodus Checkout, which allows businesses to accept dollar-denominated stablecoins. The rollout is starting in Argentina, with plans to expand across Latin America. The launch is taking place in partnership with DGO, the streaming platform for DirecTV in Latin America. The move comes as stablecoins—digital currency …