Sector: Payments

UK Government Gives Bank of England New Innovation Mandate for Digital Payments

(27 August 2026 – United Kingdom) The UK Government is introducing a secondary objective for the Bank of England to...

Payments, Regulatory & Government, Stablecoins

DBS and Stripe Partner on Cross-Border Payments in Asia

(27 August 2026 – Singapore) DBS and Stripe have announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating agentic commerce and cross-border...

Artificial Intelligence, Cross-Border, Payments

DBS, Stripe

Singapore

Standard Chartered & HSBC Execute Swift Blockchain Interoperable Tokenized Deposit Transaction

(20 August 2026 – United Kingdom) Standard Chartered and HSBC have successfully executed bank-to-bank tokenised deposit interoperability through the first...

Blockchain, Cross-Border, Payments

Hsbc, Standard Chartered, SWIFT

United Kingdom

Visa, Mastercard and Fiserv Among Founding Members of New Agentic Payments Alliance

(18 August 2026 – Global) A coalition of major payments and technology firms has formed the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA),...

Artificial Intelligence, Partnerships, Payments

Mastercard, Visa

Global

Support Builds for FedNow Cross Border Payments Extension

(12 August 2026 – United States) Wise, Visa, Stripe and major industry trade groups have thrown their support behind the...

Cross-Border, Payments

Stripe, Visa, Wise

USA

Visa Direct Partners zerohash for Stablecoin Payout and Prefunding Capability

(12 August 2026 – United States) Visa Direct has partnered leading onchain infrastructure platform provider zerohash to make stablecoin merchant...

Partnerships, Payments, Stablecoins

Visa Direct

USA

Project Agorá Enters Next Phase of Development – BIS

(5 August 2026 – Switzerland) Twenty-eight banks including JPMorgan, Citi and UBS successfully completed a Bank for International Settlements (BIS)...