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Radar Is Turning Your Signal Chats Into Bitcoin Payment Rails
Radar chat logo with IOS application On July 7, the team behind Cake Wallet announced Radar Chat, a fork of Signal that allows users to send and receive bitcoin instantly in a non-custodial fashion. The new Radar Chat, Inc. team raised an…
Canada's real-time rail could transform payments, competition, and economic growth
Canada's long-awaited payments modernisation agenda is finally moving from planning to implementation. At the centre of this transformation is the Real-Time Rail (RTR), a new national payments infrastructure designed to allow Canadians and…
Keros Therapeutics to Receive $20M Development Milestone Payment From Takeda
Keros Therapeutics said it will receive a $20 million development milestone payment under its global license agreement with Takeda Pharmaceuticals. The milestone was hit when the first patient was dosed in a Phase 3 trial for elritercept, an…
Harry and others face wait over size of legal fees payment to Mail publisher
Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysis I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The Duke of Sussex and six other household…
Duke of Sussex and celebs face wait over size of legal fees payment to Mail publisher
The Duke of Sussex and six other famous names face a wait to find out how many millions of pounds they will have to initially pay to the Daily Mail's publisher in legal costs after their failed High Court case. The high-profile figures, also…
RLUSD's Next Big Move? Google and Mastercard Integration Fuel AI Payments
Chandler Fang, cofounder of t54ai, a company building an agentic economy on the XRP Ledger, makes a prediction for Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin as agentic payments gain traction. According to Fang, given that RLUSD natively supports x402 and all…
The Hole Faces Fresh Non-Payment Claims-and Other Art World Matters
The Artnet Bulletin is our new daily digest of five items from around the art world that are worth knowing. A different writer will do it every morning. This is Katya, subbing for Andrew. Several artists who participated in the rowdy…
Prince Harry among names facing wait over legal fees payment to Mail publisher
The Duke of Sussex and six other prominent figures await a High Court decision on the substantial legal costs they may have to pay to the Daily Mail 's publisher following their unsuccessful lawsuit. Among those involved are Baroness Doreen…
Does This Top Warren Buffett Stock Have the Widest Moat in Payments?
While the investing philosophy was different earlier in his career, Warren Buffett popularized the concept of an economic moat in recent decades. This characteristic highlights the presence of durable competitive advantages. Businesses that possess…
BIS Project Agorá Settles $1 Million in Tokenized Cross-Border Payment Trials
Latest News PublishedJul 31, 2026 Twenty-eight financial institutions and central banks completed real-value settlements across six currencies using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits. The Bank for International…
NTT payments may pursue M&A route into lending
NTT DATA Payment Services (NDPS), a Reserve Bank of India-licensed payment aggregator, is eyeing entry into lending business and has kept options on merger and acquisition (M&A) route as it looks to diversify beyond payments after scaling its core…
JPMorgan, Citi, UBS test tokenized cross-border payments in BIS pilot
A group of major lenders settled real cross-border payments using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits across six currencies in a major test of the technology stack. The test processed about $1 million in transfers through…
AI Agents Need Rules Before They Can Run Payments
Moving from manual work and processes to copilots and then to agents means a sea change in how work gets done. Now businesses can assign real responsibility to systems that can execute tasks, make decisions and operate across enterprise workflows.
Andy Burnham new £4,500 payments for Universal Credit households
New payments have been confirmed for certain Universal Credit households. Bursaries will be worth up to £4,500 a year for each household to allow more people to take up apprenticeships. The DWP said the grants would 'remove a barrier that can…
The Next Evolution Of AI In Finance: From Insight To Action
Terrence McCrossan, Oversight CEO leading AI-powered financial risk & compliance monitoring solutions for Fortune 1000 & government clients. Just a few years ago, finance leaders were still debating whether AI belonged in the finance function.
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