International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, is set to provide an unfunded risk participation facility of up to $200 million to Visa, according project documents seen by CrowdFund Insider. The facility will cover settlement risk exposure on a… Read More
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MoonPay has taken a notable step toward regulated onchain capital markets by agreeing to acquire North Capital Investment Technology, a US private-markets infrastructure firm active in the securities crowdfunding sector. The companies announced a definitive merger agreement on September 23, 2026. Once the transaction closes,… Read More
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Canada’s lenders have recently launched a joint effort to study a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, aiming to keep the country’s payments rails competitive as digital money develops worldwide. On September 22, 2026, Bank of Montreal, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank,… Read More
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Atum, a San Francisco startup building what it calls the first open payments network for moving money worldwide, has come out of stealth with $13.5 million in new capital. The company was founded by Pete Cooling, who previously led Visa’s crypto product team and spent… Read More
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has formally begun work on whether its pan-European instant settlement platform can be joined to Brazil’s public real-time payment network. On 24 September 2026 the ECB Governing Council authorised a feasibility assessment of an interconnection between TARGET Instant Payment Settlement… Read More
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Visa (NYSE: V) research suggests that familiar banking-style safeguards could sharply lift US consumer interest in stablecoins, even though most Americans still know little about the category. The payments company released its Money Travels 2026 report on September 23, 2026. The US portion of the… Read More
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A recent investigation has revealed how a Kremlin-linked payments company allegedly moved more than $6.9 billion through major international banks by exploiting gaps in compliance controls and using a large-scale document-forgery operation. The reporting from the FT is said to be based on hundreds of… Read More
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Zcash developers have locked in a working timetable for Network Upgrade 7, aiming to cut confirmation waits so shielded transfers can move more quickly without changing the coin’s privacy model. On September 17, Zcash cofounder Sean Bowe posted that every major builder group had reached… Read More
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The number of merchants using artificial intelligence to integrate payment services with Ant International has quadrupled over the past year, as the fintech company expands AI into payments, foreign exchange, treasury, and credit operations. Ant International said it expects 95% of merchants to be able… Read More
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Philippine and regional financial authorities are looking to strengthen cross-border payment cooperation and regional emergency financing as ASEAN+3 economies work to improve their resilience to future financial shocks. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippines’ Department of Finance, Japan’s Ministry of Finance, and the… Read More
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Manchester payments firm Ryft has closed a £20 million Series B round to take its multi-party payment infrastructure beyond Britain and into continental Europe and the United States. The raise was led by Gresham House Ventures, with follow-on support from existing backers Pembroke VCT and… Read More
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Worldline [Euronext: WLN] has introduced a payment handler that lets retailers take payments started by artificial intelligence assistants, using the open Universal Commerce Protocol as the shared technical language. The feature sits on Global Collect, the company’s platform for international online checkout, and is aimed… Read More
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European payments group Nexi and Agentic Commerce Optimization specialist ReFiBuy have joined forces to help merchants stay visible as shoppers lean more heavily on AI assistants. Announced on 17 September 2026 from Milan and Raleigh, the collaboration aims to keep product catalogues ready for evaluation,… Read More
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The XRP Ledger is approaching a major payments upgrade after RippleX published a technical review of Batch V1.1, the rebuilt form of the XLS-56 amendment now under validator vote. The change would allow several transactions from different accounts to run together in one ledger close…. Read More
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London-based Velocity has added $10 million to its Series A, bringing the round to $48 million after a group of traditional finance and crypto investors joined the raise. Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures and Ripple participated alongside Haun Ventures, Translink Capital and Mirana Ventures, according to… Read More
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Klarna (NYSE: KLAR) has added a new layer of protection for customers in the Nordic region, rolling out an in-app tool that lets people check in real time whether an incoming phone call is actually coming from the company. The feature, called Call Status Detection,… Read More
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Poland’s mobile payment scheme has taken a notable step into the emerging world of agentic commerce. BLIK, the account-to-account system used across Polish banking apps, has completed its first pilot in which an artificial intelligence agent independently finished an online purchase and settled it with… Read More
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Hungary’s CIB Bank has teamed up with Visa (NYSE: V) to put contactless payment rings into everyday banking, turning a once-niche wearable into a mainstream account perk. Under a joint initiative, eligible customers who open selected CIB ECO current accounts and add a Visa Inspire… Read More
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Sage Capital Management has chosen OpenPayd to widen the fiat payment options available to its institutional digital-asset clients. The live connection, announced on 9 September 2026, adds dollar, euro and sterling rails so firms can move funds into and out of crypto markets through a… Read More
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Lightning Development Kit version 0.2.6, published on September 9, 2026, closes two security problems that could have affected applications built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. One issue allowed a hostile channel partner to siphon a modest amount of value during a splice. The other could leave… Read More
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