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.
Amex to Protect Cardholders Against AI Agent Errors
American Express is the first card company to announce it will protect its customers when errors occur by an agent registered with American Express through Amex Agent Purchase Protection.
Correspondent Banking Services from Clear Junction
The company helps its more than 275 clients maintain profit margins by shortening
delays and reducing the friction that can trouble making payouts in cross-border
markets.
Neema Push-to-Card Cross-Border Payments
Neema makes its network capabilities available to other companies, including Visa, TerraPay, Thunes and UnionPay.
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.
Cross River and i2c Support White-Label Debit Cards
Cross River provides all of the core banking technology that manages the FDIC-insured deposit account as well as an API that connects to Sightline to move funds to gaming wallets.
Capital on Tap Credit Cards for Small Businesses
Capital on Tap markets cards in pay-per-click digital channels, via direct mail and through telesales. It also markets through affiliates such as money.co.uk.