Payments

American Banker Fintech covered payment speed and cost, reporting that banks are falling behind in this area, and separately examined Amex's expansion into business banking. Fintech Futures published several pieces on payments infrastructure, including Poland's Bank Pekao partnering with NCR Atleos on card payment infrastructure, the UK Payments Delivery Company opening fundraising for a new national payments system, and coverage of Saudi Arabia's payments transformation and the infrastructure supporting its digital economy. Fintech Futures also ran an episode of its "What the FinTech?" series featuring Citi's Debopama Sen on institutional payments.

Several newsletters focused on artificial intelligence within payments and fraud. Banking Dive Newsletter reported that Stripe's wallet is incorporating AI bots. Fintech Wrap Up covered how AI is making fraud more sophisticated, drawing on commentary from SEON's Tamas Kadar, and separately summarized reports on tokenized money for banks, authorised payment fraud, and an agentic commerce pulse report. Connecting the Dots in FinTech covered Sokin's work enabling AI agents to move money. Fintech Futures reported that PayNearMe acquired Marr Labs assets to embed AI agents into its PayXM platform.

On funding and business payment models, Fintech Futures noted that Split Pay raised $125m to scale its bill payment platform. Forte Fintech Field Notes covered a new operating model for business payments, without further detail provided in the title.

Other newsletters addressed policy and market trends. Fintech Business Weekly published an interview with Brookings' Aaron Klein on faster payments, consumer credit, and the Fed. Linas's Newsletter touched on UK banks planning a Visa rival, alongside unrelated items on OpenAI's developer AI spend and ChatGPT's ad network status. Stack and Story reported that stablecoins have stalled at 3% of trade payments.