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Common agent verification could protect Visa's role even when software--not consumers--initiates transactions.

AI shopping can generate transactions, but unclear authorization and liability could make every automated checkout more expensive.

Using Mastercard and Visa’s digital infrastructure, the tool facilitates peer-to-peer payments without requiring both parties to have the same app.

SoFi launched a bank, a credit card empire, and a stablecoin on Mastercard's network, yet the stock sits nearly where it started five years ago. One operating metric suggests the everything-app thesis is actually working, so what keeps the chart pinned?

Mastercard's chief economist just projected a blockbuster holiday season, but buried inside her own forecast is a qualifier that changes everything about what those numbers actually mean for the stock.

V's Klook partnership across six Southeast Asian markets aims to expand its travel ecosystem through experiences, offers and bookings.

Mastercard has delivered a strong multi year gain for shareholders, yet the recent soft patch in the share price puts the focus squarely on whether that long run is supported by the returns it earns on its capital. Over the past 5 years, Mastercard has returned 63.3%, which puts real weight on the question of whether the underlying economics of the business are rich enough to support that kind of compounding. New projects such as stablecoin settlement with SoFi and AI enabled payment and...

We used to think of the internet as a place where humans clicked buttons to buy things. Now, it is becoming a place where software agents do the clicking for us, and the plumbing underneath is finally starting to look like it was built for the job. For the past few years, the financial industry […]

The payments giant sent a fortune back to its owners, yet the stock stumbled. Here’s the paradox of what that cash really bought, and what has to happen next.

Paid fees at an independent ATM? You could qualify for part of a $167.5 million Visa and Mastercard settlement. Here’s who can claim.

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) is moving quickly to keep AI shopping agents on its payments network. The company is partnering with Alchemy to give developers the ability to integrate Mastercard-backed virtual cards directly into AI agents, positioning the network for the growth of agentic commerce. On the surface, this provides Mastercard with a clear way to […]

SoFi is migrating its debit and credit card program to stablecoin settlement on Mastercard's network, with transactions already live.

Mastercard (MA) and SoFi (SOFI) have a new stablecoin partnership. Scott Melker outlines the details in the video above. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.

In this episode of the Daily Wolf, Scott Melker discusses Mastercard (MA) and SoFi's (SOFI) new stablecoin partnership, Binance investing $100 million into Circle's (CRCL) global USDC expansion, and a strong two-day run for bitcoin (BTC-USD) ETFs which raked in $1.7 billion in inflows.

SoFi is moving more than $25 billion in annualized card volume to SoFiUSD via Mastercard as fee-based revenues become a larger part of its mix.

Mastercard expands stablecoin settlement with SoFi, moving its blockchain-based settlement efforts into a live, large-scale card program.

Cryptocurrency payments firm MoonPay is set to acquire private-markets infrastructure platform North Capital in an ...

SoFi Technologies (NasdaqGS:SOFI) introduced SoFiUSD as the settlement asset for its entire card program on Mastercard's network on 21 September 2026. The move marks the first use of a U.S. bank issued stablecoin by a nationally chartered bank to settle a major card program. SoFi Bank is using SoFiUSD for real world payment settlements, connecting its regulated banking operations directly with blockchain based infrastructure. This full card migration to SoFiUSD settlement on Mastercard's...

Key Stats for SoFi StockPrice change for SoFi stock in the last 1 year: -41%$SOFI Stock Price as of Sep. 22: $1752-Week High: $33$SOFI Stock Price Target: $20What Happened?SoFi Technologies (SOFI) stock rose 3% on Tuesday.

SoFiUSD is the first stablecoin issued by a nationally chartered US bank

MasterCard (MA) concluded the recent trading session at $556.85, signifying a -1.9% move from its prior day's close.

Yahoo Finance Fed Correspondent Jennifer Schonberger joins Market Domination host Josh Lipton to report on the effort by Michelle Bowman, the Federal Reserve's vice chair of supervision, to secure the banking system against the risks of AI use, notably partnering with Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) to guard against cyberattacks.

The stablecoin distribution model just changed its fundamental terms. On September 17, 2026, Binance purchased a $100 million equity stake in Circle – approximately 1,237,011 Class A shares at $80.84 per share in a private placement at a 5% discount to the prevailing market price – and paired it with a five-year commercial agreement that […]

SoFi Stock Gets Big Crypto Boost as Mastercard Settlement Goes Live

SoFi Technologies started settling card transactions using its own stablecoin on Tuesday, a program the company says is the first of its kind for a U.S. bank. All debit- and credit-card transactions will be settled using SoFi USD, its dollar-backed stablecoin, over Mastercard payments network, SoFi said. The company said the shift will showcase how bank-issued stablecoins—a type of cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar and backed by assets like bank deposits or Treasury bills—can coexist with existing payment infrastructure by “helping bridge traditional financial systems and blockchain-based networks.”

The short version is that a nationally chartered bank just started settling card transactions in its own stablecoin, and the interesting part is not that it happened but what it reveals about the shape of the competition to come. On September 22, SoFi Bank N.A. and Mastercard announced that live stablecoin settlement is now running […]

Mastercard trades at $567.50 and has moved in lockstep with the market. Its shares have returned 13.4% over the last six months while the S&P 500 has gained 16.2%.

Visa (V) stock has run well ahead of the market, returning 13.5% over the past three months against 4.2% for the S&P 500. It now trades about 4% below its 52-week high. The next leg depends less on card swipes than on the services Visa sells on top of its network, which now bring in almost a third of its revenue.

SoFi just quietly moved its entire card program onto a blockchain that merchants never have to touch, and the four obstacles that killed crypto payments at retail for a decade may have all vanished at once.

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is pushing into AI-powered agentic commerce, biometric payments and secure digital identity across several new initiatives. The company is working with Google Pay in India on expanded biometric authentication for retail payments using device-level identity checks. Mastercard, Visa and Ant International are collaborating on a new Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework for AI agents in commerce workflows. In Canada, Mastercard supported what it describes as the first...