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Standard Chartered and HSBC settle the first live interbank transaction on Swift's blockchain ledger
The two banks have moved a cross-border tokenised deposit between their own separate platforms using Swift's blockchain-based ledger as the orchestration layer...
Visa and Mastercard join a cross-industry alliance on agent-initiated payments
Stablecoin infrastructure firm Rain has convened the Agentic Payments Alliance with more than 25 founding members, including both global card networks, to work...
Monzo runs customer payments on its backup bank during a four-hour outage
A platform fault on 19 August 2026 delayed Monzo payments for roughly four hours. The bank switched customers onto Monzo Stand-in, its separate backup...
JCB tests USDC acceptance at a Lawson store in Tokyo
JCB, Digital Garage, and convenience-store operator Lawson have signed a basic agreement to trial in-store stablecoin payments, with the first transactions run...
FTC settlement forces bill-pay platform Doxo to drop hidden delivery fees
Doxo will pay $2.1 million and accept a conduct order covering how it advertises itself and how it discloses fees on third-party bill payments. The order also...
Standard Chartered and HSBC settle the first live interbank transaction on Swift's blockchain ledger
The two banks have moved a cross-border tokenised deposit between their own separate platforms using Swift's blockchain-based ledger as the orchestration layer...
Visa and Mastercard join a cross-industry alliance on agent-initiated payments
Stablecoin infrastructure firm Rain has convened the Agentic Payments Alliance with more than 25 founding members, including both global card networks, to work...
Monzo runs customer payments on its backup bank during a four-hour outage
A platform fault on 19 August 2026 delayed Monzo payments for roughly four hours. The bank switched customers onto Monzo Stand-in, its separate backup...
JCB tests USDC acceptance at a Lawson store in Tokyo
JCB, Digital Garage, and convenience-store operator Lawson have signed a basic agreement to trial in-store stablecoin payments, with the first transactions run...
FTC settlement forces bill-pay platform Doxo to drop hidden delivery fees
Doxo will pay $2.1 million and accept a conduct order covering how it advertises itself and how it discloses fees on third-party bill payments. The order also...