Stablecoins, AI advisors, payments, and the technology rewriting finance.
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Five national payment groups from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Scandinavia and the Wero wallet will pool 130 million users into a Madrid based joint venture aimed at reducing European reliance on US card rails.
Axis Bank becomes the first Indian lender to support Apple Pay, but RuPay cards and UPI payments are left out of a rollout that starts with Visa and Mastercard credit cards.
The deal hands the New Jersey bank roughly 175,000 small-business customers and $2.1 billion of digitally sourced deposits, with completion expected in early 2027.
Coinbase now owns a CFTC-registered clearinghouse that settles fully collateralized derivatives around the clock in USDC, while margined products stay with outside partners.
The two companies unveiled Coinbase Virtual Accounts and merchant stablecoin acceptance through Spring by Citi, with automatic conversion to fiat and a 3.75% reward on balances held at the exchange.
Nubank has opened preliminary discussions about acquiring Monzo for as much as £10 billion while the British bank's board also weighs a private funding round, according to reports.
New York's top law enforcement officer and governor accuse Polymarket US of running an unlicensed gambling business, prompting the prediction market to file a federal countersuit hours later.
Blockchain Capital leads a $15 million strategic round into the Brazilian Gen Z neobank, which now targets a central bank crypto license and BRL 1 billion in credit by 2027.
Singapore payment intelligence firm IPID has closed a $16 million Series A led by Foundation Capital, with Citi and HSBC joining to push account verification into US rails and digital assets.
BitMEX customers have until September 28 to use API withdrawals after the crypto derivatives venue ended trading and abandoned a sale process.
The European System of Central Banks wants MiCA's fixed bank deposit quotas for stablecoin reserves replaced by liquidity tests tied to one and five working day maturities.
Paymob's $35 million pre-Series C round, co-led by Mubadala and the EBRD with British International Investment, Global Ventures and DPI Ventures, will fund MENA expansion and agentic commerce products.
Singapore payments firm dtcpay has extended its Series A to US$25 million after Japan's SBI Group joined as a strategic investor, with the funding set to expand its stablecoin payment infrastructure and merchant network.
The U.S. securities regulator issued a conditional five year order that lets qualifying tokenized securities venues trade tokenized National Market System shares without registering as exchanges.
Apple Pay will enter India in October 2026 with Axis Bank credit cards, while HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank remain in talks and UPI support is absent at launch.
Tools for Humanity opened World Money to users in more than 150 countries, pairing stablecoin balances and Morpho yield with Stripe and Apple Pay funding in the United States.
Circle's Arc, a Layer 1 blockchain that pays gas fees in USDC, went live with 11 founding validators from traditional finance and a genesis mint of 10 billion ARC tokens.
Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures and Ripple joined a 10 million dollar extension that values London stablecoin platform Velocity at 200 million dollars post money.
The Riyadh based fintech, which operates through Buraq Financial Company under SAMA supervision, reports more than 15 million users and over SAR 440 billion in processed funds.
Tabby has raised $233 million in equity led by Blue Pool Capital at a $6.5 billion valuation, funding a shift from instalment payments into licensed lending, cards and accounts.
Revolut says a limited number of customers had passports, selfies, and Bitcoin histories exposed after a fraudster used a legitimate government agency email domain to bypass authentication checks.