#split-payments

#split-payments

Monzo's decision to exit the US market is framed as a deliberate, strategic choice to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe, rather than a retreat.

Leonid Radvinsky's death leaves a void in the leadership of OnlyFans, a platform that has transformed the adult content landscape. His secretive management style and the controversies surrounding the site have raised questions about its future direction and stability.

Reports suggest that Stripe is considering a PayPal acquisition, although negotiations on the subject are in early stages with no guarantee of going through.

The Open Wallet Standard (OWS) is designed to solve fragmentation in the agent economy by allowing artificial intelligence (AI) agents to hold value and sign transactions without exposing private keys. This initiative is backed by over 15 major organizations, including the Ethereum Foundation and Paypal, and is available on platforms like Github and npm.

Agentic payments is very early, and we still are figuring out the best way to structure these. So our team just came up with what we thought was the most elegant, minimal, efficient protocol that anyone can extend without our permission.

The integration allows developers to build goal-oriented workflows where agents plan and execute swaps across the 1inch network using the Swap Application Programming Interface (API). This update provides rapid access to a suite of 15 APIs, including Portfolio and Gas Price tools, reducing integration time from days to minutes.

The problem was not growth or demand or even competition. It was settlement. Payments took days to clear. Reconciliation took weeks. Cash piled up in the wrong places. Finance teams spent their time explaining why the numbers did not match instead of planning what came next.

I'm the general manager of Paze, one of the business units of Early Warning Services. The mandate is really to take Paze and bring this new payment checkout system to the masses - both on the consumer side and on the merchant side - really making sure that our goal of becoming one of the top three wallets for checkout in the next five years becomes reality.

We power the experience economy. We enable businesses to deliver the moments that matter and can be found anywhere you shop, dine, stay, or play. In a world where AI is evolving rapidly and investors are struggling to pick the future winners, we offer a physical payment experience in environments that demand a face-to-face interaction.

MARA Holdings has begun a series of company-wide layoffs affecting multiple departments, marking the latest shift in the firm's broader restructuring strategy.

Consider this snapshot of the near future: You're in a taxi on the other side of the world. You pay your driver with the same digital wallet you use at home, and he receives the money in his wallet linked to the local instant payments network. He's set a rule in his bank app-"send 30% of every payout to my family back home"-and funds are converted immediately to a third currency and delivered to relatives in a country thousands of miles away.

With relatively nascent industry players like Stripe and Block performing well - and showing their AI potential reflected in their valuations - the Index leaders cannot afford to drop off the pace. Payment companies - which move money around between banks, businesses, and consumers - run on technology. Evident's new industry ranking reveals how the companies we interact with every day are using AI, from deciding whether a transaction goes through to detecting fraud.

SWIFT's new payments scheme is described as the biggest step forward for cross-border retail payments in the network's history, with over 50 banks signed up to participate.

Nium's infrastructure leverages 40 regulatory licenses to provide compliant issuance across 190 countries without requiring businesses to build new backend systems, streamlining the process significantly.

Picking a payments provider feels like choosing a business partner you will rely on for years. The platform you select handles your revenue, shapes your customer checkout flow, and determines how much control you retain over the money moving through your company. Stripe built its name early and became synonymous with online payments for startups and growing businesses. Finix entered the market with a different proposition, offering companies the infrastructure to become their own payment facilitator without surrendering ownership of the merchant relationship.