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Circle Receives Final OCC Approval to Establish National Trust Bank, Bringing USDC Infrastructure Under Federal Oversight
The new entity, First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., operating as Circle National Trust, will provide digital asset trust and custody services for Circle and its affiliates, with plans to manage USDC reserves.
Highnote Partners with Visa to Launch Agentic Commerce Solution, Enabling AI-Initiated Payments
The new platform allows AI agents to initiate and execute payments under preset rules, spending limits, and approval mechanisms.
Visa Pushes AI Agent Payments Forward as Agentic Commerce Enters Mainstream Finance
Visa accelerates its AI commerce platform, Visa Intelligent Commerce, enabling AI agents to discover products, initiate transactions, and execute payments on behalf of users.
When Machines Start Paying, Who Stops the Money Laundering?
Agent payments promise an efficiency revolution, but they also open an unprecedented attack surface. We need to redesign compliance and security systems for machine-initiated payments—a risk that must be faced, and perhaps one of the biggest infrastructure opportunities of our time.
When Machines Start Paying: Agentic Payments Are Rewriting the Rails of Cross-Border Money
For the first time in payments history, the transacting party is no longer human.
x402, AP2, Agent Pay: Three Standards, One Question — Who Becomes TCP/IP?
Protocol wars are never about technology. They are about distribution. The three camps have placed entirely different bets.
Prompt Injection, Tested: One Sentence Can Talk Your Procurement Agent Out of Its Budget
When an agent holds real money, every page and every document it reads is an attack surface.