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Fintech pushes into regulated infrastructure as crypto rules stall

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8:15 PMPYMNTS

OCC Opens Three Bank Doors to Stablecoins and AI Agents

Summary

The OCC conditionally approved national trust bank charters for Agora National Trust Bank and Catena Trust Bank, while approving Bastion Platforms Trust Company’s conversion into a national bank. The decisions create federally supervised banking structures for companies working with stablecoins and AI-driven financial services.

The decisive shift is that the OCC is giving fintech firms a path into the

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Specialized national charters could move stablecoins and AI financial agents from fintech experiments toward regulated banking infrastructure.

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6:33 PMPYMNTS

Clarity Act’s Failure Kicks Off Wave of Blame in Crypto World

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The failure of the Clarity Act to clear the Senate has triggered public blame among cryptocurrency executives and lawmakers, with disputes over the political and ethical issues that contributed to its collapse.

The legislation's defeat leaves the crypto industry without the regulatory clarity it sought and exposes

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Crypto firms must continue operating without the statutory framework they expected to define market rules.

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8:01 PMFinextra

Ant International launches financial AI stack

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Ant International introduced an AI-native product suite covering payments, accounts, foreign exchange, treasury and growth operations for global businesses.

Ant is positioning AI as an operating layer across the financial workflows that businesses already

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Financial AI is moving from individual tools toward integrated infrastructure spanning payments and treasury.

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11:44 PMEconomic Times

Tiger Global-backed Moneyview sets IPO price band for Rs 1,092-crore offer. Check key dates, other details

Summary

Moneyview has fixed its IPO price band at Rs 32 to Rs 34 per share, with bidding scheduled to open on September 24. The Rs 1,091.61 crore offer includes a Rs 750 crore fresh issue and an offer for sale of up to 10.04 crore shares.

The fresh issue will bring new capital into the business, while the large offer for

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The IPO structure makes the use of proceeds and selling-shareholder incentives central to the investment case.

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11:00 PMFinancial Times

Nik Storonsky’s plan for Revolut: a global bank with ‘effectively zero risk’

Summary

Revolut founder and CEO Nik Storonsky outlines his ambition to turn the company into a global bank while building on its position as Europe’s most valuable startup. He also presents a model designed to carry effectively zero risk.

Revolut is shifting from startup expansion to regulated global banking, making risk control central to

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Revolut’s valuation and growth now depend on proving that global scale can coexist with bank-grade risk controls.

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8:01 PMFinextra

SBI Group joins $25m funding round for dtcpay

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Japan's SBI Group participated in a $25 million Series A round for Singapore-based stablecoin payments company dtcpay.

SBI's investment gives dtcpay a major financial-sector backer as it builds stablecoin payment infrastructure. The

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Bank-backed capital is accelerating the push to make stablecoins part of mainstream payment infrastructure.

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6:57 PMPYMNTS

Polymarket Accused of Ignoring Fraud in Pursuit of Growth

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Polymarket has reportedly faced allegations from current and former employees that it tolerated compliance failures, legal challenges and software problems while pursuing rapid growth in prediction markets.

The allegations put Polymarket's growth model under pressure because fraud controls and operational reliability are

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Prediction markets may face a sharper tradeoff between rapid user growth and the controls required to operate as financial platforms.

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5:42 PMPYMNTS

Saudi Arabia Exits China’s mBridge Cross-Border Payments Program

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Saudi Arabia has reportedly withdrawn from mBridge, a China-linked digital currency and cross-border payments program that has drawn U.S. concern over its potential to bypass dollar-based systems such as Swift.

Saudi Arabia's exit weakens the program's international coalition and reduces its immediate challenge to established

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Geopolitical alignment is shaping which countries are willing to join emerging alternatives to dollar-centered payments.

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5:06 AMFinextra

Deep Dive: Anthropic’s In-House Payment Push Is Easier Said Than Done

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The article assesses Anthropic's apparent push toward in-house payment capabilities and the obstacles involved. It focuses on the operational, regulatory, and commercial complexity of moving deeper into payments.

Building payment capability would give Anthropic more control over transactions linked to its AI ecosystem,

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AI companies entering payments face a much heavier execution burden than simply adding a checkout feature.

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