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Payments Brief: Jul 16, 2026

Episode 132 Published 3 days ago
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Payments and FinTech Daily delivers a concise, executive-level briefing on the most important developments in payments, banking, and financial technology. In today's episode: Stripe and Advent International propose a $53.4 billion acquisition of PayPal; Swift pilots a blockchain-based ledger for tokenized asset settlement; the UK and US coordinate regulations for stablecoins and tokenized assets; the UK regulates buy now, pay later under Financial Conduct Authority; Visa expands its Agentic Ready program for AI agents in transaction execution; the Linux Foundation launches x402 Foundation for open internet-native payment standards; Velocity raises $38 million to grow its stablecoin-based treasury platform.

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