NatWest's UK Fintech Class of 2026 Goes Agentic
NatWest picks eight AI-native fintechs for its 2026 cohort — agentic treasury, autonomous compliance, and AI agents for customer ops in the UK.
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NatWest picks eight AI-native fintechs for its 2026 cohort — agentic treasury, autonomous compliance, and AI agents for customer ops in the UK.
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Western Union launches USDPT on Solana — a 175-year-old remittance giant cuts its own correspondent banking out of the cross-border money flow.
Korea's KFTC unveils a national AI agent payment platform — conversational AI from search to checkout. A blueprint for state-backed agentic finance.
Solana and Google Cloud's Pay.sh lets AI agents pay for Gemini, BigQuery, and 50+ APIs in stablecoins via x402 — what payment developers should know.
Stripe ships Link agent wallet, Checkout Studio, and stablecoin payouts in 160 countries — a new playbook for AI agent and fintech developers.
Meta starts paying creators in USDC on Polygon and Solana via Stripe. A blueprint for fintech developers building cross-border stablecoin payouts.
Alipay launches AI payment processing with an MCP server that lets agent developers wire up real money flows in natural language.
FedNow's network intelligence API goes live April 28, giving payment developers real-time risk data for instant transactions across the US.
DoorDash is rolling out stablecoin merchant payouts on Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain, replacing 1-5 day cross-border settlement with sub-second finality.
SWIFT builds a blockchain shared ledger on Hyperledger Besu to enable 24/7 cross-border payments with tokenised deposits across 200+ countries.
A $45M breach and rising AI agent attacks reveal critical wallet vulnerabilities that fintech and crypto developers must address now.
Oracle's new AI agents for treasury and lending signal a shift in how fintech developers build payment infrastructure for enterprise banking.
Ingenico and Paysafe bring stablecoin checkout to physical retail via WalletConnect and MoonPay — what payment and crypto developers must know.
Nevermined integrates Visa and Coinbase x402 to give AI agents delegated credit cards and stablecoin wallets — a new era for payment developers.
Ant Group unveils Anvita — a platform letting AI agents hold crypto assets and settle payments autonomously. What fintech devs should know.
Convera partners with Ripple to bring stablecoin sandwich settlement to $190B in cross-border payments — what fintech and crypto developers need to know.
Coinbase's x402 transfers to the Linux Foundation with Stripe, Cloudflare, and Visa backing — HTTP-native stablecoin payments go open.
Google's Agent Payments Protocol joins ACP and x402 to form a three-layer agentic commerce stack for fintech and AI agent developers.
Visa's Intelligent Commerce SDK and VDCAP go live in April 2026, giving fintech developers tools to build secure agentic payment flows.
Stripe's Tempo blockchain and Machine Payments Protocol launch, racing Circle to build stablecoin settlement for AI agent commerce.
Mastercard buys London's BVNK for $1.8B, plugging stablecoin rails into 200+ countries. What UK fintech and payment developers should know.
Santander and Mastercard completed Europe's first AI agent payment. What agentic commerce means for fintech and payment developers.
67% of Fortune 500 run AI agents in production. What AI agent developers need to know about agentic systems for fintech.
UK Open Banking hits 15M users and launches commercial VRPs. A payment developer's guide to the challenges and opportunities.
Rust is taking over fintech infrastructure. Why UK payment and crypto firms are aggressively hiring Rust developers across 2026, and what to learn.
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol crossed 97M downloads. A practical guide for AI agent developers building with MCP in fintech and payments.