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India Is Building a Way for AI to Pay Your Bills
Fintech & Ecommerce

India Is Building a Way for AI to Pay Your Bills

AI agents can soon pay your grocery order, your electricity bill, or your monthly subscription, without you tapping a single button. India may be about to make that real for hundreds of millions of people who use UPI.

Kurv CTO Mark Alsentzer On Proactive AI And The Future Of SMB Payments
Fintech & Ecommerce

Kurv CTO Mark Alsentzer On Proactive AI And The Future Of SMB Payments

Most merchants still start their day the same way: log in, check a dashboard, compare money in against money out. Mark Alsentzer, Chief Technology Officer at Kurv, argues that this decades-old ritual is exactly what AI should be eliminating, not improving.

MoonPay PayBox Brings AI Crypto Payments to Grok
Blockchain & Crypto

MoonPay PayBox Brings AI Crypto Payments to Grok

Typing a sentence to a chatbot and watching it actually buy cryptocurrency for you used to sound like science fiction. Yet, today we have MoonPay’s PayBox live inside Grok, and that idea turns into a real, working feature for anyone eager to try it.

How Will Blockchain Change Retail Business: Top 5 Options
Blockchain & Crypto

How Will Blockchain Change Retail Business: Top 5 Options

Blockchain will change retail in five ways

Pay With Your Watch: Top 6 Wearable Payment Devices
Fintech & Ecommerce

Pay With Your Watch: Top 6 Wearable Payment Devices

Put the bank card down and pay with your watch.

Best Business Bank Accounts for Etsy Sellers
Articles

Best Business Bank Accounts for Etsy Sellers

Fees and features reflect each provider’s public disclosures as of publication; confirm current terms directly with the provider before opening an account. Key Takeaways Etsy’s own 2025 annual report puts active sellers at 5.6 million, so the bank behind a shop rarely gets much scrutiny until tax season makes the gap obvious. Novo, Bluevine, Found, […]

Loyverse POS for PC: Running a Free Point of Sale System on Windows
Articles

Loyverse POS for PC: Running a Free Point of Sale System on Windows

Closing time at a small cafe usually looks the same everywhere. Someone counts the drawer, someone else squints at a roll of paper tape, and the difference between what the till says and what the notebook says gets written off as “close enough.” Multiply that by six days a week and you have a business […]

Revolut Launches EURR Stablecoin For 80 Million Customers
Blockchain & Crypto

Revolut Launches EURR Stablecoin For 80 Million Customers

A new digital coin for European wallets is backed by one of the continent’s biggest banking apps – Revolut.

Stablecoins Turn Spendable: $50B in Card Payments Signal Next Crypto Adoption Wave
Blockchain & Crypto

Stablecoins Turn Spendable: $50B in Card Payments Signal Next Crypto Adoption Wave

Stablecoin card spending is expected to grow 4x in the next few years. Main crypto adoption driver would be routine card payments. 

Stripe Singapore Wants Going Global 
Fintech & Ecommerce

Stripe Singapore Wants Going Global 

For most of business history, selling to another country meant years of paperwork, banking relationships and legal setup before a single overseas sale could happen. Stripe’s latest move in Singapore is built around a bet that this is no longer true and the numbers behind it are striking.

Visa Tests 7-Day Stablecoin Settlement With Nium in Singapore
Blockchain & Crypto

Visa Tests 7-Day Stablecoin Settlement With Nium in Singapore

Stablecoin payment settlement is not a niche crypto conversation anymore: here’s what Visa is testing with Nium in Singapore.

Cloudflare Kitesurf & X402 Protocol Tools Fast Track Agentic AI Checkout 
Science & Technology

Cloudflare Kitesurf & X402 Protocol Tools Fast Track Agentic AI Checkout 

Cloudflare Kitesurf and the x402 agent payments protocol could bring AI agents one step closer to shopping and paying without human help. 

Wero ING Deutschland Hits 700K Users: Can Wero Challenge Visa?
Fintech & Ecommerce

Wero ING Deutschland Hits 700K Users: Can Wero Challenge Visa?

Wero ING Deutschland has reached a milestone that could say a lot about Europe’s payment ambitions. After one year of real-world use, the numbers are starting to show whether Wero can move towards its promising role in European payments. Read on to see what the latest figures reveal and what they do not.

Walmart Finally Adds Tap to Pay for Stores and Sam’s Club
Fintech & Ecommerce

Walmart Finally Adds Tap to Pay for Stores and Sam’s Club

After years of steering shoppers toward its own checkout apps, Walmart is opening the door to Apple Pay, Google Pay and every other tap-to-pay wallet, which says a lot about who really controls how we pay at the register.

Rain’s Hidden Stablecoin Network Moves Towards Agentic Commerce
Blockchain & Crypto

Rain’s Hidden Stablecoin Network Moves Towards Agentic Commerce

Stablecoins — digital tokens pegged to the US dollar, are supposed to be the future of payments. It turns out, for one crypto infrastructure company, that future is already here, and most merchants have no idea it’s happening under their noses.

Major Banks Embrace Tokenised Deposits as Stablecoin Alternative
Blockchain & Crypto

Major Banks Embrace Tokenised Deposits as Stablecoin Alternative

Tokenised deposits may sound like just another fintech buzzword. But this week’s cross-border settlement between two global banks suggests they’re anything but.

Payments are the transfer of money between two parties in exchange for goods, services, or to settle obligations. They can be made through various online and offline methods like cash, cards, bank transfers, mobile wallets, or digital currencies. Payments are foundational to the fintech industry. They represent the most frequent and essential financial interaction between individuals, businesses, and institutions. In fintech, innovations in payments focus on making transactions faster, affordable, more secure, and inclusive. These money transfers are often the entry point for broader digital financial services, such as lending, insurance, or investment, and play a key role in driving financial inclusion and global commerce.