Payments

Stablecoins featured prominently across several newsletters this week. Stack and Story covered stablecoin remittances beating banks by 84% and reported that Circle chases 50 markets while trailing USDT by 60%. Connecting the Dots in FinTech covered Mastercard and BVNK bringing fiat and stablecoins under one roof. Banking Dive Newsletter covered stablecoin startups advancing payments. Fintech Wrap Up referenced reports including the state of euro stablecoins in 2026 and a report titled Stablecoin Cards: The Infrastructure Race for the Next $100 Billion, alongside the Evident AI Index for Banks. Payments Wrap Up covered Visa and StraitsX expanding stablecoin cards globally.

American Banker Fintech published multiple pieces this week, covering Wise's comments on AML, stating "It's difficult to get everything right," as well as how AI will impact payments, interoperability and payments' last mile problem, and how real-time pay is pressuring bank authentication.

Card network and partnership news also appeared across outlets. Fintech Futures covered Visa landing PBOC approval to begin China card clearing business preparations, and separately covered Vivid tapping Wise for international payment services. Payments Wrap Up covered Mastercard and WEX launching a Fleet Payments Network in APAC. Banking Dive Newsletter also covered JPMorgan rounding up payments partners.

Taken together, the newsletters' Payments coverage this week spanned stablecoin infrastructure and remittances, card network expansions, bank partnerships, and payments authentication and AI topics, with American Banker Fintech providing the broadest range of individual pieces and Stack and Story focusing specifically on stablecoin remittance and market-share figures.