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Bank remittance rails, SWIFT intermediary routing and blockchain-based settlement for business transfers.
Visa says stablecoin-linked card volume grew nearly 200% in a year across more than 160 programs. Its one dollar figure, a $20 billion settlement run rate, counts money moving between Visa and participating institutions, so the size of card spending is still unknown.
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Executives from five digital-asset firms said the Bank of Korea's bank-led won stablecoin model gives banks little reason to build new payment networks. A won token has to settle payments more cheaply than existing networks to be useful, and the central bank's model gives issuance to the institutions that run those networks.
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Jeeves raised $110 million after its stablecoin-settled payments grew from effectively zero to a $1.5 billion annual rate in eight months. The round pays for more countries and more products for companies moving money through markets where banking is expensive.
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Dragon Trail International's survey puts Korea first among Chinese Golden Week destinations at 20.1%, more than three times Japan's 6.0%. Korean retailers are answering with discounts of up to 30%, so the holiday lift they expect comes net of the offers.
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BIS data on 130 economies show stablecoin flows rise with currency stress, as dollar deposits do, while appearing less affected by capital controls. Turkey's roughly $38 billion of lira swapped into stablecoins in a year shows how large that harder-to-block channel already is.
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Circle is building USDC payments into Volante's bank software, which Volante says seven of the ten largest US banks already use. The integration is set up as a test layer, so for now that count shows Volante's sales reach and says little about how many banks will use USDC in live payments.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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Citi took its token service to Japan and the UAE and widened its Coinbase stablecoin deal, chasing what Jane Fraser says is over 70% of client pain points. The Coinbase features start in the US, so what treasurers in Japan and the UAE gain for now is Citi's own token service.
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Fed Governor Christopher Waller, who oversees the Fed's payments operations, told Sibos 2026 that AI in payments, agents included, could require new rules. His remarks stop short of a proposal, so firms building agent payment flows have to judge where supervisors will look first.
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Korea's regulators sorted crypto into plumbing and wagering, approving a bank remittance rail while cutting off a prediction market. XRP fell below $1 anyway.
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ECB policymakers on 24 September authorised a feasibility study of joining TIPS to Pix, Brazil's network of about 250 million daily transfers. With no live date set, any saving over correspondent banks rests on how payment providers price the currency conversion left to them.
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Upbit's parent gets Visa's network and a shortlist that includes an unlaunched consortium dollar coin. There is no launch date yet, because Seoul's draft law may reserve won-stablecoin issuance for bank-controlled groups.
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Twenty-one institutions have set a first-half-2027 date for a jointly issued dollar token. The float arithmetic points to a different motive: defending settlement flows, not earning on reserves.
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The transaction ran between two of the twelve banks that designed Swift's digital ledger, so what it proves is that the plumbing works. The money question is whether treasurers will pay to give up two days of float.
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The bank moved a single test payment between North America and Europe on Stellar, and its head of digital assets calls USBDC one component of a strategy that also runs through the Open Standard and Zelle consortiums.
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SAMA says it finished the proof of concept it joined to run and stopped there. The platform it left has cleared more than $55bn, a 2,500-fold rise that works back to roughly $22m of traffic in 2022.
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Stripe says its top AI customers grew 175% in 2026, up from 120% a year earlier, with 48% of revenue earned outside their home markets. Whether that breaks the rule that B2B growth slows with scale depends on how Stripe picked the group.
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StableFX settles both legs of a currency trade at the same instant across more than 20 fully reserved stablecoins, while the prices still come from an offchain request-for-quote process that needs a dealer awake on a Saturday.
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Mastercard's Wallet Pay lets twelve wallets issue their own card programs and keeps their stored balances travelling as Mastercard credentials. Half of those wallets came to it through Alipay+.
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More than 50 banks in 16 countries have signed up to Project Pangea to test instant euro-won settlement using SWIFT-format instructions, on a corridor that trades about $150bn a year against a global FX market doing at least $7.5tn a day.
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