The stablecoin issuer is a third payments approach and a watershed moment. Plus; PayPal's cross-border play and Fiserv's bad year.
Why agentic commerce will reshape payments, merchants, and everything else
Plus; Kalshi raises $185m at $2bn and FiServ launches FiUSD a stablecoin that may actually make sense.
Plus; JP Morgan Deposit Token (JPMD), Coinbase and Shopify partner for USDC commerce & LLMs are a leaky bucket.
Plus; Stripe's big acquisition. The Chime IPO and the busiest week I can remember.
What the Circle IPO means, Wise moves its HQ, Monzo's annual results and a nugget on Visa's new pay by bank with chargebacks
Not merely a new payments rail. Miss this and you'll miss how everything changes. Plus; I was travelling so no news!
The battle for what comes next has just started. Plus; Airwallex raises $300m, and Jamie Dimon says you can buy Bitcoin again.
Except for taste and experience. Plus; Chime's IPO, Nubank's profit problem and the chartered bank acquiring a stablecoin company.
Plus; Stripe's stablecoin account is the biggest disruption to hit banking I've seen in 20 years in this industry
The question is how will you adapt. Plus; Visa's Agentic Commerce launch.
Plus; Circle wants to be SWIFT, Capital One/Discover gets greenlight, and M^0 is building a central bank
