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On Saturday we had an X post that looked at a key number from Visa’s latest earnings call: nearly 50 AI partners are now live and in production on its agentic payments program, including Shopify’s Shop Pay. CEO Ryan McInerney expects that number to double in the coming months. AI agents for people and businesses It’s a sign that AI agents paying for things is moving out of the lab. The full picture is more nuanced, though, and the details matter. What Is Visa Intelligent Com

How bank-issued deposit tokens are moving from private rails to public blockchains—and what treasury teams should consider. In mid-October 2026, JPMorgan’s blockchain unit Kinexys expanded its USD deposit token, JPM Coin (ticker JPMD), to the Ethereum mainnet for approved institutional clients. The token had launched on Coinbase’s Base network in November 2025. This step is more than a technical upgrade. It signals that regulated commercial bank money is increasingly being po

Orchestration makes the OCC Charter the ultimate goal for FinTechs. The past several weeks have brought a cascade of regulatory approvals, infrastructure launches, and partnership announcements that, taken together, reveal a clear pattern: the construction of a fully regulated, multi-asset payments stack that runs from federal charter down to on-chain settlement. By the first half of 2027, the major components of this stack are expected to be live and orchestration is the key

What a shared ledger actually does. Sibos 2026 put the project on every payments panel. Most of the coverage missed the part that decides whether it matters for your business If you only caught the headlines out of Sibos in Miami, you could be forgiven for thinking Swift just launched a new global money network. It did not. What it launched — and what seventeen banks are already testing — is narrower, and more useful, than the headlines suggest. Swift’s blockchain ledger is a

Fintechs spent billions trying to look like banks. Community financial institutions already are one. The winning move is to build a digital brand around the thing members do every single day: move money

The businesses that build agent payment governance frameworks now — inventory, policy, credential architecture, and audit trail — will own the enterprise payment mandate for the next decade. The ones that wait will spend 2027 catching up.