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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 …

NCR Voyix Corp. announced early Wednesday it has reached a multi-year deal with Sbarro to provide the pizza chain with its point-of sale-technology, along with Voyix Pay, a payment-processing service. The agreement covers almost 300 corporate-owned and franchise locations in the United States. Sbarro operates more than 800 stores in …

With at least two AI agents available that can make payments on behalf of users, payments companies are preparing for a larger role for agentic commerce. American Express Co. Tuesday published a framework for trusted agentic commerce, something it hopes could be part of a larger standard for the payments …

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 Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Block Inc. stopped short of assisting Cash App users whose accounts had been frozen or deactivated, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Block, the parent company of the point-of-sale technology platform Square and the financial technology Cash App, froze or deactivated Square accounts holding funds …

Investment platform Moomoo announced an expansion of its account-funding services to enable investments using Apple Pay and Google Pay. The service relies on an existing collaboration with Visa and Checkout.com that enables Moomoo users to make real-time deposits for investments in stocks, cryptocurrencies, exchange-traded funds, and other options. Vancouver, British Columbia-based BTQ Technologies …

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 …

Visitors to Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, home field of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and college football’s University of Miami Hurricanes, are now tapping and dipping their credit and debit cards at Clover Sport point-of-sale terminals. Fiserv Inc., which owns Clover, says 1,020 Clover Station Duo POS terminals and integrated scanners …