#Payments
33 stories tagged Payments, newest first.
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Korea's central bank wants deposit tokens to break the credit card's grip: Project Han River grows to 500,000 users
The Bank of Korea says deposit tokens could shift Korea's card dominated payments toward cheaper debit style payments. Project Han River is expanding to 500,000 users and nine banks, and the BIS led Project Agora targets a 2028 launch.
Mastercard will score stablecoin payments for scams and sanctions before banks release the money: what Stablecoin Security does
Mastercard's new Stablecoin Security service gives banks a fraud, scam and sanctions risk score before a stablecoin payment completes. It starts in North America, goes global in 2027, as Asian banks race into stablecoins.
Friday, October 23, 2026
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Monday, October 19, 2026
Airwallex buys its way deeper into Asia with an Indonesian payments deal
Airwallex has agreed to take majority ownership of a licensed Indonesian payments company, extending an aggressive acquisition run across Asia Pacific even as it signals that the timing for a public listing is not yet right.
The stablecoin trust gap: most of Asia expects to use them, few actually have
A Visa survey finds a large share of Asia Pacific consumers expect to use stablecoins within five years, far above the small share who have used one in the past year. That gap is the whole story.
Southeast Asia fintech funding tripled in 2026, but almost all of it went to four deals
Regional fintech raised around 2.3 billion dollars in the first nine months of 2026, roughly triple the prior year, yet four mega rounds took 86 percent of the money. The capital is back, but concentrated.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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Swift's blockchain ledger is live, and 19 banks are about to use it
At Sibos in Miami, Swift said its blockchain ledger is live and in use by some of the world's largest banks, with at least 19 expected on it by year-end for 24/7 tokenised deposit payments in five currencies.
Visa, Mastercard and Stripe just launched a stablecoin to take on Tether
Open Standard's OUSD went live on 30 September with Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase and Shopify as founding partners and over 1 billion dollars of seed liquidity, the first stablecoin backed by the firms that run global payments.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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The Danish FSA published its Inpay inspection results and payments oversight kept getting tighter
The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority released the findings of an inspection of Inpay. The specific findings matter less than the pattern of Northern European payments supervisors turning routine inspections into published reports.
Ant International launched an AI-native stack and the enterprise finance market got a new anchor
Ant International launched a full stack of AI-native tools for payments, accounts, FX, treasury and growth operations. The scope of the launch is a bet that the enterprise finance function is about to be redesigned around AI.
Ryft raised 20 million pounds for a European push and payments infra keeps eating fintech
Manchester-based Ryft closed a 20 million pound Series B to expand into Europe and the US. The number is modest. The pattern of payments infrastructure attracting the growth capital is not.
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Japan is quietly making stablecoin payments normal at the convenience store
Japan's stablecoin payments are moving into daily life as Lawson and Netstars push Stablecoin Pay, letting merchants accept USDC, USDT and JPYC while still settling in yen, a cultural shift toward everyday crypto utility.
Visa is building stablecoin infrastructure for banks, and that changes the story
Visa is building infrastructure to make stablecoins easier for financial institutions and payment providers to integrate, a move that reframes the asset from a crypto-native experiment to plumbing for the banking system.
