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Sector: Payments

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

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

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

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

(3 August 2026 – Australia) ANZ is building a new tokenised deposit offering to enable instant cross border payments for...

(27 July 2026 – China) The People’s Bank of China has added 26 banks to the CBETS e-CNY cross border...

(17 July 2026 – United States) Stripe’s US$53bn bid for PayPal could unite merchant infrastructure and consumer scale, accelerating stablecoin...

(13 July 2026 – Belgium) 17 global banks including StanChart, UBS, ANZ, HSBC, DBS and Citi are set to pilot...

(8 July 2026 – Australia) Australia’s biggest telecoms company ​Telstra, said on Wednesday a software fault triggered a nationwide outage...

(8 July 2026 – Thailand) Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) has partnered with Citi to launch round-the-clock USD clearing services, enabling...