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The marketing push highlights digital tools for turbulent times on Main Street.

MA is targeting small-business demand for integrated tools, cybersecurity and premium features to deepen relationships beyond card payments.

A BlackRock-validated chain, a launch livestream, and a man in a gaming chair. Within an hour, Arc traders were selling. Why?

Visa and American Express have also been readying their systems for agentic bots that shop on behalf of cardholders.

(Updates with Citi's comment in the seventh paragraph.) US and Vietnamese companies are expected

AI agents excel at product discovery, but they struggle to close the deal. While 132 million U.S. adults have used AI to assist in a retail purchase, according to PYMNTS Intelligence, the actual conversion rate for these autonomous systems remains stuck. Only 3% of transactions currently involve agents, revealing a massive chasm between finding an […]

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday said it attracted $112 billion in private capital in the year ended June versus $69 billion a year earlier, and more than

Meme coin launchpads captured 82% of Arc's $410.8 million first-day DEX volume as Circle's chain went live.

PayPal (PYPL) has gained 27% over the past three months while the S&P 500 returned 0.7%. Over the trailing twelve months, the stock is still down 18.7%, so the whole gain is recent. A gain that recent still needs an operating reason to hold, and management points to what PayPal lends, not to the checkout button.

Circle’s Arc mainnet counts BlackRock, Mastercard, and Visa among its founding validator cohort.

Shared agent identity can reduce integration costs while making competing payment networks easier to connect.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire called Arc "one of the biggest launches" in the company's history.

MA edges V on expected EPS growth and strategic expansion in AI and digital assets, supported by Agent Pay, BVNK and value-added services.

The Layer 1 network’s validator set is permissioned, and Circle has minted 10 billion ARC tokens without committing to publicly launch them.

The final settlements in a federal lawsuit over credit card swipe fees, led by the food delivery company, came on the eve of a trial in Chicago.

Circle Arc went live today, September 16, 2026, as an open, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain. The network arrives exactly one day after the CLARITY Act failed a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, leaving a regulatory vacuum that Circle is now attempting to fill through private-sector consensus rather than federal mandate. By positioning itself as […]

US and Vietnamese companies are expected to announce a series of agreements in energy, technology, a

The current landscape of agentic commerce is defined by a fragmented trust stack. As AI agents move from simple information retrieval to transactional execution, the industry has struggled to reconcile disparate standards like x402, Google UCP, and Mastercard AP4M. Into this architectural divide, Stripe introduced its Shared Payment Token (SPT) in October 2025, positioning the […]

American Express could remain a top-three Berkshire Hathaway holding for decades to come.

V sees the couch economy becoming embedded in daily life as online, in-app, streaming and delivery spending expands across key markets.

The company’s new chief financial officer presented his view of stablecoins, growth and acquisitions at an investment bank conference last week.

The largest U.S. retailer joined hundreds of other merchants calling a swipe-fee settlement with the card networks inadequate and unfair.

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and KEO Capital have entered a multi-year partnership to expand KEO’s cross-border card program. The agreement focuses on widening access to Mastercard-branded cards for KEO Capital clients and program participants in international markets. The collaboration targets broader usage of Mastercard solutions in cross-border payments for financial institutions and other KEO Capital partners. This new KEO Capital and Mastercard cross-border card partnership deserves...

Card companies’ proposal to end 2005 class-action deemed inadequate

V's premium valuation is backed by strong margins, VAS growth, AI and stablecoin moves, but rising competition and regulation temper near-term upside.

Britain’s biggest banks will this week embark on a process to raise tens of millions of pounds to fund the development of a new payments infrastructure vehicle that could ultimately evolve into a domestic alternative to Mastercard and Visa. Sky News has learnt that the UK Payments Delivery Company (PDC), a newly formed entity, will on Tuesday launch an equity-raise aimed at creating the country's future payments utility. The establishment of the PDC and its fundraising represent a significant milestone in Britain's efforts to overhaul payments infrastructure which is viewed as archaic and requiring an overhaul to make it fit for a 21st century advanced economy.

PYPL bets on agentic payments as a long-term growth opportunity, building capabilities now for AI-driven commerce from 2028 onward.

There's a generational shift among consumers as they bring AI into their purchasing process, according to a Mastercard report.

The two card giants want to stay central as AI software starts to shop for you.

Investing.com -- Agentic commerce accounts for less than 1% of overall e-commerce activity, even as new AI shopping tools from Meta and Anthropic launched this week.