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The Payments Pulse: The Stablecoin Stack Is Now Infrastructure.
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The Payments Pulse: The Stablecoin Stack Is Now Infrastructure.

Three things happened this week that, taken together, tell you where the payments industry is actually going. Mastercard…

The Payments Pulse: The Payments Infrastructure Shift Is No Longer Theoretical
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The Payments Pulse: The Payments Infrastructure Shift Is No Longer Theoretical

Four stories defined the payments week. The White House moved to redraw the rules of access to the US payment system, di…

The Payment’s Pulse: Agents, Infrastructure, and the Rules That Make It Real.
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The Payment’s Pulse: Agents, Infrastructure, and the Rules That Make It Real.

Three things happened this week that, taken together, describe exactly where the payments industry is heading. AI agents…

The Payments Pulse: Consolidation, Clarity, and the Stablecoin Stack
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The Payments Pulse: Consolidation, Clarity, and the Stablecoin Stack

The CLARITY Act Hits the Senate Floor. What Happens Next Matters. After months in legislative limbo, the Digital Asset M…

The Payments Pulse: Loyalty, Restructuring and the Stablecoin Endgame.
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The Payments Pulse: Loyalty, Restructuring and the Stablecoin Endgame.

The big deals this week were not about who processed the most transactions. They were about who owns the layer above the…

The Payments Pulse: Access, Infrastructure, and the Stablecoin Tipping Point.
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The Payments Pulse: Access, Infrastructure, and the Stablecoin Tipping Point.

This week the payments industry moved on four fronts simultaneously. Western Union confirmed it is launching a Solana-ba…

The Payments Pulse: The Infrastructure Build Keeps Going.
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The Payments Pulse: The Infrastructure Build Keeps Going.

If last week was about structural signals, this week was about structural execution. Adyen collapsed the enterprise paym…

The Payments Pulse: Infrastructure Moves, Tariff Shocks, and the Agentic Economy Goes Live
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The Payments Pulse: Infrastructure Moves, Tariff Shocks, and the Agentic Economy Goes Live

This week, the payments industry had to hold two realities simultaneously. On one side, the most significant structural …

The Payments Pulse: The Control Layer Takes Shape
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The Payments Pulse: The Control Layer Takes Shape

This week, the payments industry moved further from experimentation and deeper into execution. OpenAI stepped back from …

The Payments Pulse: Stablecoin Takes Over
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The Payments Pulse: Stablecoin Takes Over

This week, the stablecoin story dominated on every front simultaneously. The largest acquisition in the history of digit…

The Payments Pulse: Regulation Just Caught Up With the Market
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The Payments Pulse: Regulation Just Caught Up With the Market

This week, three forces converged at once. The US government stopped debating stablecoin regulation and started writing …

The Payments Pulse: Agentic Commerce, Stablecoin Infrastructure, and the New Rules of Cross-Border
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The Payments Pulse: Agentic Commerce, Stablecoin Infrastructure, and the New Rules of Cross-Border

This week, the payments industry moved on several fronts at once. Agentic AI — models that don’t just answer quest…