

Mastercard and ryd Replace the Plastic Fleet Card With a Tokenized Mobile Platform
Munich-based mobility fintech ryd has launched ryd fleet, a digital-first fleet payment operating system built with Mastercard, removing the physical fleet card from European commercial vehicle operations and replacing it with a tokenized virtual card that lives inside the driver's app and the vehicle's infotainment system. The product went live on 21 May 2026 and targets a European fleet card base that stood at roughly 6.7 million cards in 2023, according to MarketGrowthRepo


NMI's $700B Embedded Payments Push: Dwolla Deal Lands A2A Stack
NMI has acquired Dwolla in a deal that lifts the combined business to roughly $700 billion in annual transaction volume and hands the embedded payments provider a ready-made account-to-account (A2A) infrastructure layer. Announced on 19 May 2026, the transaction is NMI's sixth acquisition since 2021 and signals an aggressive bid to own the "sign-up to payout" stack as merchants accelerate their move away from card rails. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Schaumburg, Ill


MoonPay Launches Stablecoin Card Built for AI Agent Spending
MoonPay has unveiled MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard debit card that allows AI agents to spend stablecoins directly from self-custodial onchain wallets at any merchant accepting Mastercard globally. The product marks the first agent-native card infrastructure to bypass the custodial pre-funding model that has defined existing crypto debit cards. It launches today in the UK and Latin America through an expanded partnership between MoonPay, Exodus (NYSE American: EXOD), a


Stripe unveils 288 AI-era launches as agent payments go mainstream
Stripe used its annual Sessions conference to position itself as the default settlement layer for the agentic economy, announcing 288 new products and features anchored by a Google partnership that lets merchants sell directly inside AI Mode and the Gemini app. The Stripe AI commerce push extends an integration strategy that already covers OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta, and now reaches platform ecosystems including Wix, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce. The breadth of the release,
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