Visa and Chinese payments group Lianlian DigiTech have run what they describe as the first live business-to-business agentic transaction in Greater China, using Lianlian's AI agent, LoopXPay, to source a product sample from a supplier and settle payment inside a single automated workflow. The move extends Visa's agentic commerce infrastructure from the consumer checkout, where it has been piloted since spring 2026, into corporate procurement, the larger and more complex side

From tokenised dollars to a pan-European wallet, how the seven days ending 24 July 2026 turned "payments modernisation" from a slide deck into a shipping product. The week payments stopped being polite If you spent this week refreshing the payments news feed, you already know the vibe: something has shifted. As of this week, three parallel movements, Visa's live stablecoin infrastructure, Stripe's audacious swing at PayPal, and the pan-European Wero wallet's roadmap confirmat

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Tokenized Treasuries hit $15.9B, DTCC's July pilot bridges TradFi and DeFi, and Washington's quantum bet lands. Inside the frontier week.

Boerse Stuttgart Digital has integrated EUR CoinVertible, the euro stablecoin issued by Société Générale-FORGE, into its trading and custody platform, making it the first stablecoin issued by a bank subsidiary to enter the firm's regulated infrastructure. The move, announced on 23 July 2026, deepens a two-decade commercial relationship between the Boerse Stuttgart Group and Société Générale and extends it from traditional capital markets into digital assets. What is Boerse St

The FCA's BNPL rulebook is live, Forward Financing landed $525M, and Propy became a title company. Inside a week that rewired credit.

Growth-focused private equity firm Bregal Sagemount has agreed to acquire a majority stake in ATOZ Services, a Luxembourg-based fund services platform, in a deal that consolidates the New York firm's position in one of Europe's fastest-consolidating financial services markets. Under the transaction, Sagemount becomes the controlling shareholder while founding parent ATOZ Group and existing backer ICG retain minority positions. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and cu

As of July 10, Europe's Anti-Money Laundering Authority has delivered the Level 2 and Level 3 measures that will bind every regulated firm on the continent from 2027. Meanwhile, an AI Act watermarking obligation lands August 2, Australia's Tranche 2 goes live, and a wave of RegTech funding suggests the compliance stack itself is being rebuilt in real time. The Regulator's Fortnight If you work in compliance, this month is not a slow one. According to AMLA's own regulatory ins

Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) has launched the Intuit Business Credit Card, a World Elite Business Mastercard for US small businesses that connects directly to QuickBooks, the accounting software many of those businesses already run on. The card is issued by WebBank, operates on the Mastercard network, and carries unlimited 2% cash back on everyday purchases and 5% back on Intuit products including QuickBooks and Mailchimp, with no annual fee. The bigger story sits underneath the rew