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A consortium including Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase on Tuesday launched a new joint stablecoin in a bid to broaden the ‌adoption of the digital tokens. The venture, called Open Standard, brings together more ‌than 140 businesses for the stablecoin network and will issue a new U.S.-dollar pegged stablecoin called Open ​USD, which is expected to go live later this year. It is aimed at accelerating the usage of the digital tokens worldwide by addressing hurdles that businesses face in scaling stablecoin adoption, Open Standard said.

The European Central Bank secured key parliamentary backing on Tuesday for the launch of a digital euro, an electronic ‌means of payments aimed at making the euro zone less reliant on ‌U.S. credit cards at a time of fraying transatlantic relationships. The digital euro, essentially an electronic wallet guaranteed ​by the central bank but marketed by banks or fintech companies, will allow all euro zone residents to make payments online and in person. Six years in the making, the ECB's digital cash has become a more pressing issue since Donald Trump returned to ‌the White House, slapping tariffs ⁠on even established trade partners such as the European Union and raising fears that the U.S. could one day weaponize its ⁠dominance over payment networks like Visa and Mastercard.

Despite the passage of state legislation and a federal court settlement aimed at taming credit and debit card fees, the card networks and their issuers prevailed in the first half of this year.

Michael Burry is betting PayPal's deeply discounted valuation and strong cash generation will eventually outweigh investor skepticism.

Canada's largest blockchain and artificial intelligence event is returning this summer. The Blockchain Futurist Conference is set to run July 21–22, 2026, bringing together thousands of people from the technology, finance, and digital asset industries. Organizers say the conference is ...

Here’s the thinking of a federal judge who approved the settlement covering merchants who sued Visa and Mastercard over interchange fees.

A federal judge on Tuesday tentatively approved a settlement between Visa and Mastercard and a class of merchants, paving the way for potential big changes to credit-card rewards. The agreement would end a 20-year legal battle between the card networks and a group of merchants, who have argued that the fees they are charged for each transaction are too high. Initially reached in November, the settlement would give merchants more flexibility to reject certain credit cards and would mandate lowering swipe fees over multiple years.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a settlement between the card networks and 12 million merchants over card-swipe fees is fair and reasonable.

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Mastercard and Visa are suspending transactions, hotel operators are pulling out and a major Canadian miner is rethinking its presence on the island.

Most traditional finance companies treat crypto as a side project. They run a pilot, publish a press release, and move on. Mastercard (MA) has spent the past two months doing something harder. First, it spent up to $1.8 billion to buy a stablecoin firm. Then it got licensed to handle digital assets ...

A $10,000 bet on Mastercard's 2006 IPO would be worth nearly $1.2 million today.

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By Jesús Aguado and Valentina Za MADRID/MILAN, May 22 (Reuters) - Europe's push to curb its dependence on U.S. payments giants Visa and Mastercard has driven a wedge between the European Central Bank

Endava (NYSE:DAVA) reported a weaker fiscal third quarter and lowered its fourth-quarter outlook, with management citing delayed client decisions, geopolitical disruption in the Middle East and longer sales cycles for large outcome-based contracts. Chief Executive Officer John Cotterell said demand

Berkshire Hathaway more than tripled the size of its investment in Google's parent company and bought over $2.6 billion worth of Delta Airlines stock as Greg Abel settled into the CEO job after taking over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year. The conglomerate also dumped a number of other stocks, including Visa, Mastercard, Domino's Pizza, Amazon and United Healthcare after the departure late last year of Todd Combs, who was one of the two investment mangers Buffett hired to help manage the portfolio. Buffett was always reluctant to invest in tech companies because he said he didn't understand them well enough to predict the long-term winners.

Here's what investing conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway was buying and selling during the first quarter, the first period for Greg Abel at the helm since succeeding Warren Buffett as CEO. Delta Air Lines: Berkshire bought a sizable stake worth around $2.

Brazil is a politically divided country, but there's one thing that those on all sides of the political spectrum love: PIX, the country's instant payment system that allows users to pay for everything, from ice cream on the beach to clothes in a shopping mall and even a car. Unlike payment apps run by private banks, PIX is governed Brazil's Central Bank. “The best (payment method) is PIX, the most used,” said Luis Felipe de Almeida, a 21-year-old vendor of iced tea and cassava starch biscuits on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.

President Trump has just landed in Beijing ahead of a two-day summit with Xi Jinping. More than a dozen top U.S. business leaders have also made the trip. Notable names include Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (a late addition) and Elon Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX.

By Eduardo Baptista and Laurie Chen BEIJING, May 12 (Reuters) - From Meta to Tesla and BlackRock, the U.S. business delegation for President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this

Elo plans US listing in the second half of this year and could seek to raise up to $500m.

Elo plans US listing in the second half of this year and could seek to raise up to $500m.

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More than a dozen top U.S. business leaders will travel to China for President Trump’s visit this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, representing various American industries from finance to manufacturing.

Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, GE Aerospace's Larry Culp and ‌Boeing's Kelly Ortberg will join U.S. President Donald Trump on his visit ‌to China this week, a White House official told Reuters. Others taking part include Meta's Dina ​Powell McCormick, Blackrock's Larry Fink, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, Cisco's Chuck Robbins, Micron's Sanjay Mehrota, Mastercard'ss Michael Miebach, Qualcomm's Christiano Amon and Visa's Ryan McInerney, the official said.

By Jarrett Banks Corpay, Inc. (NYSE: CPAY) delivered the kind of quarter that shifts the narrative from a solid payments company to a potential long-term compounder. Across Wall Street brokerage reports, the themes were the same: accelerating Corporate Payments momentum, improving Lodging trends, durable double-digit organic growth, and a management team increasingly confident in the […]

The number of new addresses appearing on the XRP network has dropped from 18,000 a day in December to 2,700 a day on May 7, as per Glassnode data. The figure hitting an 18-month low represents a decline of 85% during the period. Monthly active XRP supply has also sunk from 7.45 ...

Jack Dorsey-led Block raised its full-year outlook on Thursday as the payments firm benefited from resilient ‌consumer spending and strong growth in its core businesses. The ‌Oakland, California-based company now expects annual gross profit to be $12.33 billion in 2026, compared ​with its previous forecast of $12.20 billion. U.S. consumer spending remained broadly resilient ‌in the first three ⁠months of 2026, underpinned by a stable labor market and wage growth.

Crypto market down 0.59% as money rotated into equities after the S&P's all-time high, with Bitcoin rejected on a bearish divergence.

AFRM is set to report Q3 fiscal 2026 results on May 7, with GMV, active consumers and transaction growth expected to lift revenues nearly 27% year over year.