FinTech Payment Rails

A card programme settling in stablecoin

SoFi Bank has moved its full card programme to blockchain settlement across Mastercard's network, using its own SoFiUSD.

2026-09-23·2 min·Source: Finextra

A bank becomes a stablecoin distributor

Standard Chartered will distribute HKDAP, the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin from a venture it part-owns, starting with institutional clients.

2026-08-25·2 min·Source: Cointelegraph

Fifty-seven percent would take it, eighteen do

Stripe surveyed 2,300 independent workers in 20 countries. The gap between willingness and provision is the whole finding.

2026-08-19·2 min·Source: Stripe

Stablecoin payments arriving as card payments

Rain's chief executive says more than 100,000 merchants take them already, settling through Visa in about three days without knowing the origin.

2026-08-19·2 min·Source: The Block

Stripe goes after the double conversion

Settlement in up to 18 currencies across 37 markets, plus conversion between 15 currencies on demand — aimed at businesses paying FX twice.

2026-08-17·2 min·Source: Stripe

The corridor, not the coin, is the product

Businesses moving money across borders do not care what settles the transfer. They care about the two ends.

$196B▲ +3.4%stablecoin supply

2026-08-11·9 min

Central bank pilots narrowed to wholesale

Retail projects quietly shelved; interbank settlement is where the work continued.

9▲ +3active wholesale pilots

2026-08-07·6 min

Issuers compete on reserve disclosure now

Composition converged. Reporting frequency and auditor identity did not.

94%▲ +2ppreserves in T-bills and repo

2026-08-03·5 min

Chargebacks have no analogue, and buyers notice

Irreversibility is a feature for the merchant and a problem for everyone selling to consumers.

0.9%▼ −0.1ppcard dispute rate, merchant sample

2026-07-30·7 min