Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machine-to-Machine Payments

Last month, the company launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), an end-to-end orchestration service that supports use cases such as when AI agents build websites and design marketing campaigns and require the ability to accept micropayments.

Nordiska Embedded Finance

Sweden-based Nordiska plans to expand throughout Europe by offering embedded finance services as an orchestration layer rather than as a core banking service. The company’s modular platform delivers financial products such as banking-as-a-service, cards-as-a-service, white-label and co-branded credit card programs and card-linked loyalty programs via a single API. Nordiska sees opportunities to provide co-branded credit […]

Patents for Vehicle Data and Two-Way Payments

Aiden Auto provides an embedded software platform that securely facilitates sharing vehicle data with third parties. The platform interfaces directly with the vehicle. Other technology providers utilize telematics hardware and aftermarket dongles to accomplish data sharing. The company recently secured three patents that cover vehicle-based payments, in-vehicle consent and data sharing in the United States […]

Visa and Brale’s Stablecoin Proof of Concept on the Canton Network

The Canton Network provides transactionlevel privacy not found on other public blockchains, such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and Polygon, which are decentralized and open source. On the Canton Network, only parties that are part of the transaction can see its details. Multiple parties can transact using different private ledgers.

Consumer Direct ACH Payments — 2025

Added to FedACH and EPN network volumes is an estimated 7.00 billion transactions processed in-house by financial institutions when the recipient and the payor of an ACH item are customers of the same financial institution.