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The proposed round could value the prediction-market exchange at about $40 billion, up from $22 billion in May, though the financing has not closed. Kalshi is looking beyond event contracts toward a wider trading platform, putting it closer to established exchanges as scrutiny of prediction markets grows.

Citi and Coinbase are expanding their partnership to connect traditional bank payments with stablecoins for corporate customers. Coinbase will use Citi's Virtual Account Wallet to let businesses accept and hold fiat while automatically converting funds into stablecoins, while Citi clients will be able to accept stablecoin payments through Spring by Citi, with Coinbase converting the assets back into fiat for settlement.

Long Lake completed its $6.3 billion all-cash acquisition of Amex GBT, taking the company private at $9.50 per share and delisting it from the NYSE. The deal pairs Amex GBT's global managed travel platform with Long Lake's AI engineering and Nexus AI transformation capabilities, with plans to deploy agentic customer tools and AI-assisted travel services across the business.

Apple Pay is finally launching in India, entering a huge but competitive market via a partnership with Axis Bank. Customers with Axis Bank-issued Visa and Mastercard credit cards can now make in-store, online, and in-app payments via iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches, with support for Mac coming soon.

The surge in forward-deployed engineers reflects a missing enterprise AI product layer: companies still need humans to translate operator judgment into instructions agents can reliably follow. “ContextOps” is a continuous process for turning operational evidence and expert judgment into versioned, tested, and approved agent procedures. Every escalation improves future automation and the company owns the learning loop instead of repeatedly relying on FDEs.

BCG expects payments transaction revenue to keep growing through 2030, reaching $436 billion in North America and $1.03 trillion globally, but at slower annual rates than in the prior six years. The slowdown reflects mature digital-payment adoption, tougher competition, regulation, and new payment rails, while faster growth shifts toward regions such as Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

This podcast discusses why there is no Fedwire for the internet, and why the next wave of on-chain volume is coming from enterprise money movers like Deel rather than crypto-native builders. Simon Taylor explains why tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and TradFi settlement will converge on a single chain, why agentic commerce is still stuck in its WAP-phone era, and how the Machine Payments Protocol is being designed as an IETF-grade standard that can settle across Tempo, Stripe, or any card network.

The hard part of payroll, HR, and benefits integrations was never the code — it's walled gardens, data mapping, and auth. A Finch engineer explains what AI changed, what it didn't, and when building wins. Watch the webinar now.

Amex's September 30 rollout pairs a corporate cashback card with software that captures spending, generates expense reports, and flags policy violations. Aimed at businesses with $10 million to $300 million in annual revenue, it brings Amex closer to the integrated offering popularized by Ramp and Brex. Additional AI agents and accounts-payable features are planned after launch.

Stripe has become a founder factory for fintech, with former employees launching companies across agentic commerce, banking infrastructure, stablecoin payments, and vertical financial services. Alumni startups including Circuit & Chisel, Increase, and Latitude Global reflect how Stripe's technical culture, exposure to cutting-edge internet businesses, and broad view of itself as a software company are seeding the next generation of payments infrastructure.

A Senate Democratic report found that 84% of 846 sanctioned wallets it examined had transacted in USDT, prompting a call for US authorities to investigate Tether's role in Iran-linked money flows.

Jeeves raised $110 million in equity funding led by CoinFund as it expands its stablecoin-native financial operating system across 35 countries. The company says revenue has grown 4x in 14 months, annualized platform volume has surpassed $5 billion, and stablecoin-settled volume has reached $1.5 billion annualized, while new products including a proprietary stablecoin wallet, global payouts, AR, and AI spend tracking broaden its push to become the core banking infrastructure for multinational businesses.

The system extracts banks' business rules from aging mainframe software and converts them into tested cloud-based financial products.

IPO postponements are accelerating as higher bond yields, renewed rate hikes, and concerns around AI spending make public-market investors more selective.