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The payments giant offers double-digit growth without semiconductor factories or direct consumer-credit risk.

WU is expanding its U.S. retail reach through Total Wireless, adding money transfers, bill payments and money orders to more stores nationwide.

The Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) will operate as a coalition governed collectively by its founding members.

Pershing Square Holdings, an investment holding company, released its second quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Pershing Square is an alternative asset manager that primarily manages capital in publicly traded investment vehicles, with 98% of its capital structure dedicated to such assets, including Howard Hughes Holdings. This capital […]

Top research reports spotlight Visa as payments grow, Lam Research on AI demand and Caterpillar on strong backlog.

Visa is currently shopping for a new stablecoin settlement and over-the-counter (OTC) partner. While the move appears to be a routine vendor swap, it functions as a strategic decoupling. According to CoinDesk, which reviewed the request for proposal (RFP) issued on August 18, 2026, the payment giant is looking to fill a void left by […]

Visa's payments growth, Lam Research's AI-driven demand and Caterpillar's broad market momentum headline today's top analyst reports.

Visa posts strong fiscal Q3 results with $6.3 billion adjusted profit and 10% payment volume growth.

Visa stock has returned 59.2% over the past five years, yet valuation signals are split, with the Excess Returns intrinsic value estimate suggesting the shares trade below intrinsic value while earnings based multiples point to a richer price tag. That disconnect, set against a backdrop of regulatory scrutiny and new blockchain partnerships, is what investors now have to weigh. Over five years, Visa has delivered a 59.2% total return, which shows the stock has already rewarded long term...

A new app makes it easier for McDonald’s employees to get to their jobs.

Credit card giant Visa (NYSE: $V) is in search of a new stablecoin settlement partner after its previous partner in...

The Krak Card offers up to 2% cash or bitcoin back and lets users spend from more than 600 currencies and crypto assets

Mastercard's CEO is betting that the company's next decade of growth has nothing to do with credit cards, and the payment category he's eyeing doesn't exist yet on any network.

Bill Ackman just made Visa a major new bet after the stock trailed the S&P 500 for five straight years. Whether that lag signals a coiled spring or a structural problem depends on threats most investors are not watching closely enough.

Pershing Square's new Visa position adds a prominent long-term investor, but the shares surrendered part of their disclosure-driven gain.

PYPL's 36.1% surge in three months reflects TPV and Venmo growth, but weak checkout growth and fierce competition raise questions about its recovery.

Visa Direct's 21% transaction growth and expansion into cross-border and stablecoin use cases could reshape V's growth story.

Even among high-powered investment experts, one man's trash can be another man's treasure.

In Bitcoin news today, Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, argued this week that gold remains easier to use for everyday transactions than Bitcoin, reviving a long-running debate over the asset’s real-world utility. The comments arrived alongside a sharper attack on Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: ...

According to Rallies Arena, a public tracker that gives AI models money and watches how they invest it, Visa (NYSE:V) is among the top stock holdings of ChatGPT. Visa recently made the news after billionaire Bill Ackman shared his bullish views on the stock in his investor letter. Ackman calls Visa one of the highest-quality […]

Bill Ackman once fled Netflix at a loss, so his decision to buy back in now raises a pointed question: does he see a genuine turnaround forming in a stock that has badly lagged the market, or is he walking into the same trap twice?

Here's what changed.

The July 2, 2026, live agentic payment transaction in Germany—executed by Worldline, ING, and Visa—served as a definitive proof of concept for the future of commerce. By successfully navigating product identification, consumer authentication via Visa Payment Passkeys, and standard authorization protocols, the trial demonstrated that the existing payment rails are not the primary bottleneck. As […]

For many Americans, retirement was once expected to come with the major financial milestone of owning a home free and clear. New research from Visa (NYSE:V) shows a rising number of older Americans are still carrying mortgage debt well into...

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square added Visa (NYSE: V) in a major portfolio reshuffle, highlighting fresh institutional attention on the US payments giant. At the same time, European authorities and private alliances are pushing projects that aim to cut reliance on US card networks such as Visa and Mastercard. The European Central Bank is backing regional payment alternatives that seek more financial autonomy and lower exposure to geopolitical risk. These parallel moves could influence how Visa...

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has been busy putting billions of dollars to work after completing one of the biggest milestones in the history of Pershing Square. In its second-quarter update, Pershing Square highlighted the $5 billion initial public offering of PSUS, the New York Stock Exchange ...

The same investor just bought all three -- but only one of the charts looks like something went wrong.

Visa just crossed $4 trillion in quarterly payments volume while Mastercard keeps quietly expanding its margins and winning high-profile clients. Both giants reported earnings days apart, and the gap between their growth stories is wider than the headlines suggest.

Bill Ackman reveals a fresh stake in Visa stock. Options pricing also suggests V shares will rip higher in the weeks ahead.

Solana is about to get significantly faster. A major upgrade expected to land in September will cut transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds, a reduction of nearly 99% that developers say will make the network feel almost instantaneous for end users. The ...