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The Safest Path To Agentic Payments Starts With A Separate Wallet
Louis Hoch is co-founder, chairman and CEO of Usio, a payments technology company offering embedded payments and digital disbursements. AI is moving from recommending purchases to completing them. AI agents could soon book travel, pay bills, manage…
Privacy Crypto Wallet Is Bringing Anonymous Payments to Stablecoins. Will Regulators Allow It?
Aztec Labs is bringing back zk.money, the privacy-focused, self-custodial Ethereum wallet it first launched in 2021 and shut down in 2023. The name is the same, but nothing from the old product has been carried over, including two deprecated…
1 in 4 Americans With Fast-Rising Debt Are Missing Payments. Here's What to Do If You're Falling Behind.
The interest rate on credit card debt can top 30%. It's no wonder so many Americans can't keep up. A recent study from Accredited Debt Relief and Money.com surveyed 2,000 Americans who held debt in the past year. The survey found that more than a…
UK households handed £1,400 cash payments
Brits can claim cash in refer-a-friend deals. Brits can claim up to £1,400 in cash payments by making the most of referall offers. Many companies offer refer-a-friend schemes which offer people discounts or money in return for drumming up new…
State pensioners getting second £965 monthly payment on Wednesday
Advice has been issued to pensioners set to get paid twice this month. Some state pensioners may see a second payment of around £965 hit their bank account this Wednesday (September 30). However, they should be aware that the cash is not a…
CIBC joins global initiative to advance cross-border payments
Project builds on CIBC's continued investment in modern, scalable payment solutions TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2026 /CNW/ -- Today, CIBC (CM: TSX and NYSE) announced it will join Project Agorá, a global public-private initiative to test the use of…
HMRC hands UK households extra £108 Tuesday payment this September
Some Child Benefit claimants will get double payments this September HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will be sending extra £108.20 payments to some UK households claiming Child Benefit this Tuesday. The extra payment comes as September is a…
Winter Fuel Payment cut to just £100 for state pensioners born in these years
Winter Fuel Payments can drop as low as £100 State pensioners born in certain years who live with another state pensioner could see their Winter Fuel Payment slashed to just £100 this coming winter. While most pensioners will see news…
As China-Rwanda trade grows, payment systems must keep pace
Trade ties between China and Rwanda are expanding quickly, but the systems used to move money between the two markets have not always kept pace. For many local traders, paying Chinese suppliers has involved several costly steps. Businesses may…
Konek™ digital wallet to be enabled for Global Payments merchants nationwide
New rollout signals growing demand for flexible, pay-by-bank checkout options TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2026 /CNW/ -- Interac Corp. (Interac) today announced that Global Payments (NYSE: GPN), a leading payment technology and software company that powers…
Another one-off winter payment confirmed for UK households from October
The Warm Home Discount Scheme reopens in October Another one-off winter payment has been confirmed for UK households from October, separate from the Winter Fuel Payment. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provides a payment between…
Zcash developers begin moving Tachyon code into faster private-payment software
Zcash developers have released Udon, a component that moves parts of the proposed Tachyon scaling upgrade into Zakura Common, software used to create and verify private transactions. While earlier Common improvements cut private-transaction…
ECB Puts AI Agent Payments on the Digital Euro Drawing Board
Latest News PublishedSep 29, 2026 The ECB is seeking firms to explore AI agents and machine-to-machine interactions as it prepares a separate digital euro pilot for 2027. The European Central Bank is seeking fintechs, payment firms and other…
DWP told to stop PIP payments for 52,210 claimants with 'non-specific' condition
The Department for Work and Pensions has awarded Personal Independence Payment to tens of thousands of claimants citing 'non-specific' back pain as their primary condition. According to the Telegraph, the number of PIP recipients whose payments are…
New claims for Adult Disability Payment could include backdated cash
The latest figures from Social Security Scotland show 510,150 people were receiving additional financial support through Adult Disability Payment (ADP) at the end of July. The latest data also shows the average time to process a new claim for ADP…
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