Payments: Stablecoin News and Analysis
Reporting on stablecoin checkout, payouts, remittances, payroll and business settlement, including the companies providing those services.
Reporting on stablecoin checkout, payouts, remittances, payroll and business settlement, including the companies providing those services. 106 stories filed under Payments on NextCurrency.
Explore NextCurrency
- Latest coverage
- ACI Worldwide and Circle Plan Colombian Pilot to Bring USDC Settlement Into Existing Bank Payment Systems
- FCA Consults on Exclusions That Would Let Many UK Stablecoin Payment Activities Run Without Crypto Permissions
- TerraPay Verify Joins J.P. Morgan's Kinexys Liink Network to Check Bank Account and Wallet Payees Before Cross-Border Payments
- Cross River Agrees to Acquire Accrue, Adding Branded Wallets, Stored Value and Rewards to Its Embedded Finance Stack
- MoneyGram Relaunches Its App and Website, Combining Transfers, Cash Pickup and Stablecoin-Powered Dollar Balances
- HSBC Launches RedCoin, Its First Hong Kong Dollar Stablecoin, for 3.3 Million PayMe Users
- Klarna Launches Consumer FX, Letting Shoppers Pay Foreign Merchants in Their Own Currency With No Exchange Fee
- Western Union Picks Noah to Pay Out Remittances in Its USDPT Stablecoin
- Thunes and Coinbase plan stablecoin-to-fiat payout links
- Mastercard adds risk intelligence to stablecoin payments
- Allium: Stablecoin Payments Rose 45% to $482 Billion in January–September 2026 as Supply Grew 0.4%
- Circle Plans Push Into About 40 Emerging Markets, CEO Tells Reuters
- Finloop and QFPay Report HKDAP Payment With Existing HKD Settlement
- Visa Direct Moves Stablecoin Prefunding Into Commercial Production With Inyo
- Mastercard and BVNK Launch Global Money Platform for Fiat and Stablecoins
- Samsung Wallet Plans USDC Transfers for Eligible US Users in Late October
- TOKEN2049 Singapore Highlights Stablecoin Payments, Tokenisation and AI
- SAP Pay Brings USDC Into Cloud ERP Workflows
- Citi Links Four Instant-Payment Rails Through Swift
- PayPay Adds Binance Pay for Overseas Visitors in Japan
- SBI DigiTrust Starts Japan–Korea Stablecoin QR Payment Test
- Exodus Checkout Adds Stablecoin Payments for DGO in Argentina
- European Payment Groups Establish Shared Cross-Border Hub
- Sivar Launches $2 Stablecoin Remittances Between the US and El Salvador
- Citi and Coinbase Connect Virtual Accounts to Stablecoin Checkout
- UK Banks Complete Live Tokenised-Deposit Payments in Remortgage and Marketplace Pilots
- Binance Invests $100 Million in Circle Under Five-Year USDC Agreement
- Worldline Launches UCP Payment Handler for Agentic Commerce
- Circle Agrees to Acquire Tazapay, Adding 100+ Payout Markets to USDC Infrastructure
- Coinbase and Moov Partner to Bring Stablecoin Payments to Community Bank Software
- Swiss CHFD Stablecoin Sandbox Starts Live Tests With SIX and TWINT
- Mastercard Launches Agent Connect to Link Merchants With AI Shopping Agents
- Mastercard Launches Wallet Pay Across NFC, QR and Online Wallet Payments
- 21 Financial Institutions Plan Shared Dollar Stablecoin for First Half of 2027
- MoonPay Brings PayBox to Grok Through a Custom Payments Connector
- OSL Reports HK$55.8 Billion in H1 Revenue After Shift to Gross Accounting
- Russia Begins Digital Ruble Rollout for Largest Banks and Qualifying Merchants
- TD Tests Real US-Dollar Tokenized Payments With BNY in Project Agorá
- Syria processes first international Mastercard payment in more than 15 years
- UK plans payments-innovation objective for Bank of England covering stablecoins and digital money
- Nium links a Visa-MAS stablecoin settlement pilot to live USDC-funded global payouts
- Stablecoin card spending crosses $1 billion in a month as payment use moves beyond crypto trading
- OUSD Goes Live Across Stripe's Stablecoin Stack
- Rain Acquires Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa, Expanding Beyond Card Issuing
- Stablecoin Market Shrinks for First Time in Four Years as Adjusted Volume Hits $1.79 Trillion All-Time High
- Visa Launches Stablecoin Platform and Activates USDC Payouts Across 195 Countries
- Western Union StableCard Goes Live in 37 Markets on Solana with Rain and USDPT
- PayPal Restructures Around PYUSD as Stablecoin Supply Contracts to $2.7B
- Mastercard Closes $1.8B BVNK Acquisition, Absorbing Top Stablecoin Orchestrator
- Coupang and Woori Bank Complete First End-to-End KRW Stablecoin Payment on Tempo
- Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase Near Joint Stablecoin Platform
- Tempo Adds $7.5B Morpho DeFi Lending, Becoming a Full Financial Stack
- Tether Backs LemFi to Push USDT Into 30-Country Remittance Corridors
- RedotPay Plugs 7M Users Into Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol for AI Agentic Payments
- Mastercard and Yellow Card Partner on Stablecoin Payments Across EEMEA
- PayPal Q1 2026: Revenue Beat as Enrique Lores Plots 20% Workforce Cut and $1.5B Savings
- Klarna Launches KlarnaUSD on Stripe's Tempo Chain, First Bank Stablecoin on the Network
- Stripe Sessions 2026: 288 Launches and the OS for the AI Economy
- Pay With Peso, Crypto, or Both: Coins.ph Pioneers Stablecoin Payment Utility in the Philippines with First-of-its-Kind QRPh Integration
- Meta Begins Paying Creators in USDC Through Stripe, Starting in Colombia and the Philippines
- Plasma XPL Under Pressure: The Stablecoin Chain Native Token Question
- Bangkok Becomes Asia's Stablecoin Ground Zero as Money20/20 Moves from Pilot to Production
- Nium and Coinbase Go Live With USDC Settlement, Bridging Stablecoin and Fiat Rails for Global Payments
- WalletConnect Pay and iMin Bring Stablecoin Payments to Smart POS Terminals in 100+ Countries
- Three Stablecoin Chains Are Rewriting the Payments Playbook
- RedotPay Launches Scan to Pay with VietQR, Targeting Stablecoin Spending in Vietnam
- Rain Extends Visa Principal Membership into Asia-Pacific, Targeting $500B Stablecoin Market
- 8B and PayU Build First India-Central Asia Payment Bridge, Bringing UPI to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan
- HitPay Launches Remittance API for Platforms, Opening Single-API Cross-Border Payout Access Across Four Asian Corridors
- Wirex BaaS Powers Utorg's 2M-User Neobanking Stack as Soroban Infrastructure Goes Live with Ultra Stellar
- Checkout.com Adopts OpenAI-Backed ACP to Power AI Agent Commerce for Enterprise Merchants
- Nium Launches Dual-Network Stablecoin Card Platform Spanning Visa and Mastercard Through a Single API
- Solana Foundation Launches Enterprise Developer Platform With Mastercard, Western Union and Worldpay as Early Adopters
- Stripe and Paradigm Launch Tempo Blockchain and Machine Payments Protocol for Autonomous AI Commerce
- WalletConnect Network Posts $6.69B Weekly Stablecoin Volume, Projects $400B Annual Throughput
- Mastercard to Acquire Stablecoin Payments Firm BVNK for Up to $1.8 Billion
- Thunes Connects 11,500 SWIFT Banks to 500 Million Stablecoin Wallets with Zero Additional Integration
- Mastercard Launches Global Crypto Partner Program, Enlisting 85+ Firms From Binance to PayPal
- Macquarie Calls Stablecoins 'Foundational Financial Infrastructure' as Market Hits $312 Billion
- Jack Dorsey Confirms Block Will Support Stablecoins Despite Personal Opposition
- Mastercard Pushes AI and Crypto Payments to Reshape Fee Economics
- How Sequence Makes Non-Custodial Smart Wallets Practical for Production Payments
- American Express Settles $17.5 Million Antitrust Class Action Over Anti-Steering Rules
- Visa Leads Payment Industry in Three-Way Race for AI Supremacy
- Meta Dips a Toe Back Into Crypto - Stablecoin Payments Coming
- Why 2026 Will Be a Defining Year for Stablecoins and On-Chain Finance
- The Future of International Monetary System
- Payoneer Taps Bridge for Stablecoin Capabilities: A New Era for Global Business Payments
- Wirex Bridges Crypto and Fiat: Visa Direct Powers Global Stablecoin Payouts
- Visa and Mastercard Play Down Stablecoins While Quietly Building Crypto Infrastructure: The Great Contradiction of 2026
- Asia-Pacific B2B Payments: A Trillion-Dollar Digital Revolution Reshaping Commerce
- Klarna and Google Unite: AI Agents Revolutionize Global Payments with Universal Commerce Protocol
- Visa's Digital Gambit: Extending Stablecoin Reach to Conquer New Payment Frontiers
- Visa Charts New Course: Global Payments Giant Embraces Stablecoins for Future Transactions
- Payment Industry Trends: Stablecoins, Agentic Commerce, and Interchange Wars Reshape Digital Transactions
- Bcon Global Launches Non-Custodial Crypto Payment Gateway: Merchants Get Direct Access to Stablecoin Payments Without Intermediaries
- Revolut Expands into Mexico: European Neobank Offers Free US Remittances to Tap $50 Billion Latin American Market
- Visa's Q1 2026: Digital Payments Giant Navigates Shifting Sands with Robust Growth and Stablecoin Ambitions
- Crypto Adoption Reaches 39% in US Retail: Stablecoins and Fintech Drive Mainstream Payments Inflection Point
- Visa Partners with Mercuryo: Crypto-to-Fiat Off-Ramping Reaches 150M+ Merchants Globally
- Visa's Q1 2026 Triumph: $10.9 Billion Revenue and the $4.6 Billion Stablecoin Surge
- Capital One Acquires Brex for $5.15 Billion: The Business Payments Consolidation Accelerates
- Mesh Hits Unicorn Status: Crypto Payments Network Raises $75M and Joins the Billion-Dollar Club
- Merchants Coalition Launches Assault on Credit Card Swipe Fees: $187.2B Annual Toll Faces Congressional Challenge
- Visa Direct Unleashes Real-Time Crypto-to-Fiat: Mercuryo Bridges Digital Divide
- Visa and Mercuryo Unleash Real-Time Crypto-to-Fiat: A New Era for Digital Payments