Sep 7 – Sep 13, 2026
What the fintech newsletters in this directory covered on Payments that week — drawn from 17 posts across 9 newsletters, and nothing else.
American Banker Fintech reported on BVNK and Marqeta offering payments incentives tied to stablecoins, while Bankless covered Visa's use of onchain credit for stablecoin card settlement. Stack and Story reported that Visa's stablecoin volume has reached a $20B run rate. Banking Dive Newsletter, Fintech Futures, and Payments Wrap Up all covered Circle's agreement to acquire Tazapay for $400 million to scale global USDC adoption.
Several newsletters focused on AI agents and payments infrastructure. Connecting the Dots in FinTech covered Alipay's work on a payment layer for everyday AI agents, and separately reported on Checkout.com's move to go direct in US acquiring. Payments Wrap Up covered a partnership between Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International on an AI agent trust framework, and separately reported on Anthropic's debut of a Commerce Agent Blueprint with Visa and Mastercard. Fintech Radar's issue #174 covered Anthropic's own payments stack ambitions, India's efforts to put agents on UPI, and X turning payouts into deposits.
On mergers and acquisitions in payments infrastructure, Fintech Futures reported that Saudi Arabia's Salla is buying PayLink to build out merchant payment acceptance services, and separately covered Ant International winning a payment institution licence in Brazil. Payments Wrap Up and Fintech Futures both covered PayTabs' planned acquisition of Amazon Payment Services MENA in a $100m deal. Fintech Futures also reported that Robinhood is tapping Ramp to streamline global finance operations.
David M. Brear published a piece titled "When Everything Checks Out," covering the subject without further detail available from the title alone.
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