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Social Security COLA update: Why payment boost now predicted to be smaller
Millions of Social Security recipients could be in line for one of the largest benefit increases in recent years in 2027, but a new inflation report has prompted analysts to lower their expectations for how large the benefit boost may be.
Five Critical Questions To Ask When Building Your Payment Strategy
Chuck Yu is CEO of VGS, a trusted infrastructure powering payment tokenization and agentic commerce for the world's leading enterprises. After nearly two decades in payments, I've fielded many questions about payment strategy. My career has…
These Student Loans Are Now Cut Off From Affordable Payments And Loan Forgiveness
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2026. The Education Department is overseeing major changes to student loans that go into effect during July 2026. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images) A major…
Linux Foundation Backs XRP for AI Payments
Ripple has joined the Linux Foundation's newly launched x402 Foundation as a premier member. It is bringing XRP and its RLUSD stablecoin into an open-source initiative that is meant to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents and…
XRP Ledger Reports 200% Spike in Payments: Analyzing If It Matters
Compared to recent lows, the daily payment volume on the XRP Ledger's important metric surged by more than 200%, indicating a significant increase in payment activity. Payments between accounts increased to roughly 291 million XRP, according to…
Velocity Lands $38M to Build Enterprise Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure
Latest News PublishedJul 14, 2026 Backed by Dragonfly, FirstMark and Coinbase Ventures, the startup is expanding software that helps businesses integrate stablecoins into treasury and payment workflows. Stablecoin treasury platform Velocity has…
Exclusive: Payments startup Velocity raises $38 million to help businesses tap stablecoin growth
As stablecoin use surges globally, traditional finance is rushing to keep pace. Many businesses, though, are still getting up to speed on how to integrate dollar-pegged tokens into customer payments, and London-based startup Velocity—which…
JCB Signs Circle MOU to Explore USDC Payments in Japan
Latest News PublishedJul 14, 2026 The companies will explore using USDC for JCB's cross-border treasury operations and merchant payments in Japan as regulated stablecoin adoption gains momentum. Japan's largest domestic payment network, JCB, has…
New DWP update on AI checks for Universal Credit Advance payments
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published a new update on the artificial intelligence (AI) system it uses to help identify potentially fraudulent Universal Credit Advance payment claims. The department said the machine learning model…
Older people on PIP may be due backdated mobility payments from DWP
Certain groups of older people on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) with an award for the lower rate of mobility element may be able to ask the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to look again at their claim following a recent change in the…
Nasdaq's IPO whisperer is betting his next chapter on fixing institutional payments
Jay Heller has spent much of the last three decades helping companies ring the opening bell. During his 18 years at Nasdaq, he worked on more than 3,000 public listings, including some of the biggest names in tech. After a career spent helping…
Former Clinton County mayor, ex-wife indicted for alleged utility payment theft
Former Clinton County mayor, ex-wife indicted for alleged utility payment theft All right, 6:43 here and we are kicking off news to go with *** live look at the sunrise over Cincinnati looking beautiful there. It is going to be hot, but it is mid…
Perpetuals.com Won't Acquire Trump-Linked Payments Firm
“Perpetuals has decided not to further pursue the acquisition of AI Financial Corporation's subsidiary Alt5 Sigma Canada, Inc. and the earlier letter of intent has been terminated,” the company's chief strategy officer Matthew…
Ripple Joins x402 Foundation to Advance XRP, RLUSD Agentic Payments on XRPL
Expertise: Crypto, Stocks, Tokenization, AI, Prediction Markets, Crypto Regulation CoinGape has covered the cryptocurrency industry since 2017, aiming to provide informative insights to our readers. Our journal analysts bring years of experience in…
New X9.150 QR Standard Unlocks US Instant Payments at Checkout
That is the larger significance of X9.150, a new American national standard for merchant-presented payment QR codes, published Tuesday (July 14) by the Accredited Standards Committee X9. The specification creates a common structure for dynamically…
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