Visa’s latest earnings call put two different versions of digital commerce on the same balance sheet. Version one: Consumers are still spending more on credit and debit cards. Version two: Consumers begin with AI agents and move through stablecoins, tokens and new money-movement channels. As for the card-based business, U.S. payments volume grew 10% year […] The post Visa Expands Money Movement as Card Spending Accelerates appeared first on PYMNTS.com.
Visa is funding its stablecoin and AI-agent money movement bets with card volume growth—a hedge few disruptors can afford to match.
Hardware-level national security policy is now a trade barrier. Connected device importers face a supply chain rethink, not just a compliance checkbox.
European B2B card challenger crossing $100M ARR stateside signals the corporate spend market is still wide open for focused challengers.
Three acquisitions in one year signals Cyera is land-grabbing before enterprises standardize on AI agent governance—incumbents like CrowdStrike should pay attention.
Open banking erodes the captive mid-corporate client. Banks embedding accounting tools are buying relevance they can no longer assume.
Ionic Digital's 25% Nasdaq pop shows crypto bankruptcy assets are being repriced as AI compute—a playbook distressed miners will now copy.
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