September 9, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Revolut have completed a tightly controlled live test in which an artificial intelligence agent initiated a real purchase on a French Revolut Visa card, authenticated through Visa Payment Passkeys rather than a one-time code, PIN or manual card entry. The trial,… Read More

 Tagged ai, france, payments, revolut, visa

September 9, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

StoneX Financial has recently opened its coverage of Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) with a Buy rating and a $170 price objective. The call came from Mark Palmer, managing director and senior research analyst at the firm. Against Tuesday’s close of $117.34, when the shares fell 3.91… Read More

 Tagged analysis, hood stock, robinhood, stonex

September 9, 2026 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Block Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) has taken a notable step toward deeper integration with the U.S. banking system by applying for a specialized federal charter. The payments and financial technology company, led by co-founder Jack Dorsey, disclosed on September 8, 2026, that it submitted a request… Read More

 Tagged banking, bitcoin, block, digital bank, occ

September 9, 2026 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Investors are cheering the announcement that Chime, a neobank, has anounced the acquisition of its partner bank, Stride. Chime Financial (NASDAQ: CHYM) agreed to purchase longtime partner Stride Bank in an all-cash transaction valued at $590 million. At the time of writing, Chime shares have moved… Read More

 Tagged banking, chime, stride bank

September 9, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chime Financial (NASDAQ: CHYM) has agreed to purchase longtime partner Stride Bank in an all-cash transaction valued at $590 million, a move that would give the fintech its own nationally chartered bank and a more direct path to owning the infrastructure behind its accounts. The… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, banking, chime, stride bank

September 9, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Tazapay, a Singapore-based specialist in business-to-business cross-border payments. The announcement, made on September 8, 2026, positions the transaction as a way to broaden Circle’s payments infrastructure and… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, circle, payments, singapore, stablecoins, tazapay

September 9, 2026 @ 1:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has published a new toolkit designed to help companies stand up conversational shopping and operations assistants on Claude, and payment networks Visa and Mastercard are among the partners helping merchants put those templates into production. The company framed the release as a practical “blueprint”… Read More

 Tagged agentic ai, agentic commerce, Anthropic, Claude Commerce Agents, mastercard, visa

September 9, 2026 @ 12:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A SWIFT service provider has teamed up with Chainlink in a move designed to give hundreds of banks a simpler path onto blockchain networks. Bottomline, frequently described as one of the three largest firms that help institutions use the Swift messaging system, entered a strategic… Read More

 Tagged banking, bottomline, CCIP, chainlink, swift

September 8, 2026 @ 7:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-based startup Outline has closed a $3 million seed round as it seeks to give finance leaders an alternative to the monthly grind of rebuilding forecasts in spreadsheets. Founders Future led the financing, with 100in, Newschool and a group of industry angels also participating. Among… Read More

 Tagged france, funding round, outline

September 8, 2026 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saudi Arabia based payments group PayTabs has struck an agreement to take over Amazon Payment Services’ operations across the MENA region, in a transaction both sides have already approved and valued at more than $100 million. The move would fold Amazon’s regiplatform onal merchant-acquiring and processing… Read More

 Tagged amazon, mena, paytabs, saudi arabia