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Yahoo Finance • 2 hours ago

SoFi Just Went Live With Stablecoin Settlement on Mastercard. That’s the First Bank-Issued Stablecoin on a Major Card Network.

The short version is that a nationally chartered bank just started settling card transactions in its own stablecoin, and the interesting part is not that it happened but what it reveals about the shape of the competition to come. On Septe... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 2 hours ago

3 Big Reasons to Love Mastercard (MA)

3 Big Reasons to Love Mastercard (MA) Mastercard trades at $567.50 and has moved in lockstep with the market. Its shares have returned 13.4% over the last six months while the S&P 500 has gained 16.2%. Is now a good time to buy MA? Find... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 2 hours ago

What Does Mastercard (MA) Signal With Its AI Payments And Biometric Push?

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is pushing into AI-powered agentic commerce, biometric payments and secure digital identity across several new initiatives. The company is working with Google Pay in India on expanded biometric authentication for reta... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 3 hours ago

How SoFi Is Turning Its Consumer App Into A Stablecoin Proving Ground

SoFi Technologies (SOFI) and Mastercard on Tuesday said their stablecoin partnership is fully operational and handling real transactions. SoFi stock climbed on the news. Under the partnership, SoFi's debit and credit card program with more... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 4 hours ago

SoFi Shares Rise 3% as Bank Launches Stablecoin Settlement on Mastercard Network

Stablecoin ©Adobe Stock Images SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) shares gained 3% on Tuesday after the company announced that SoFi Bank had become the first nationally chartered US bank to introduce live stablecoin settlement across Masterc... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 4 hours ago

Moov Launches Moov Money, a New P2P Solution Built Using the Debit Cards Americans Already Carry

Built in collaboration with Mastercard and Visa, the new solution enables participating banks and credit unions to deliver secure P2P payments while keeping deposits and customer relationships at their primary institution Turnkey integrati... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 7 hours ago

Visa Settled $20B in Stablecoins. Now It’s Running the Blockchain.

Visa has officially crossed the threshold from a financial institution experimenting with stablecoins as a payment rail to a core operator of blockchain infrastructure. By joining the founding validator cohort for Circle's Arc L1, the paym... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 7 hours ago

Upfront and Mastercard partner on commercial card payments for MENA SMEs

Upfront, a financial operations platform serving SMEs across MENA, has partnered with Mastercard to expand digital payment options for smaller businesses. The collaboration is aimed at giving SMEs additional ways to manage working capital... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 23 hours ago

Mastercard Slips as AI Agents Seek Shared Credentials

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Mastercard (NYSE:MA), the global payments and identity network, joined Ant International and Visa in building a common trust framework for the coming wave of AI-powered commerce. Shares slipped ap... Full story

Yahoo Finance • yesterday

Mastercard, Flybits and Rogers establish benchmark for secure, consumer-controlled agentic commerce in Canada

Industry collaboration uses Mastercard Agent Pay to help advance safeguards for responsible agentic commerce TORONTO, Sept. 21, 2026 /CNW/ -- Mastercard, Flybits and Rogers Bank today announced Canada's first successful deployment of a la... Full story

Yahoo Finance • yesterday

Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International Build First Cross-Network Know Your Agent Framework

The Illusion of Unity in Agentic Finance On September 9 and 10, 2026, the payments industry witnessed a rare moment of public alignment. Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International announced the development of a Cross-Network Know Your Agent... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 3 days ago

Could Circle Internet Group (CRCL) Become A Bigger Force In Onchain Finance?

Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) launched Arc, a purpose-built open Layer 1 blockchain for financial markets, as its public mainnet. Arc integrates Circle's USDC and EURC stablecoins for payments, FX, trading, lending, and asset issuance... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 4 days ago

Europe Has Agent Payment Rails Live Across 30+ Banks. The US Is Still Debating Who Pays When They Break.

The trajectory of agentic commerce is splitting. Europe is prioritizing a regulatory-first architecture, while the United States remains stalled by a lack of federal guidance and unresolved liability questions. The same underlying technolo... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 4 days ago

Mastercard Holds Flat as Alchemy Gives AI Agents Spending Controls

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Mastercard (NYSE:MA), the global payments network, pushed deeper into agentic commerce as Alchemy turned its agent-payment framework into a live developer product called AgentCard. Shares were nea... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 4 days ago

3 Stocks That Have Compounded Wealth for Decades. History Suggests the Next Decade Will Not Be Different

Quick Read Mastercard (MA) and Amazon (AMZN) have compounded 506% and 532% over ten years while still posting accelerating revenue growth and expanding margins last quarter. Costco (COST) leads all three with a 594% ten-year return and a... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 4 days ago

AgentCard Gives AI Agents Their Own Identity. That Is the Point.

Alchemy's integration of AgentCard with Mastercard Agent Pay establishes a dedicated identity layer for autonomous software. By provisioning each agent with a unique email address, phone number, stablecoin wallet, and tokenized payment cre... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 5 days ago

Visa Slips as AI Agents Gain a Shared Passport

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Visa (NYSE:V), the global digital-payments network, joined Mastercard and Ant International in pushing for common identity standards for AI purchasing agents. Visa shares slipped approximately 0.4... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 5 days ago

FMPay Sets Out Acquiring and Card Payout Model for Mid-Sized Digital Businesses

FMPay CHELTENHAM, UK, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FMPay (FM Finance Ltd), an FCA-authorised payment institution, has set out the operating model behind its card acquiring and payout services for mid-sized digital businesses and B2B... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 5 days ago

Is Small-Business Demand Creating New Growth Levers for Mastercard?

Mastercard Incorporated MA recently showed that small businesses still want to grow, but they increasingly prefer growth that is steady, protected and easier to manage. Its Dreamonomics survey of more than 6,000 SMEs across 18 countries fo... Full story

Yahoo Finance • 5 days ago

Alchemy Unlocks AI Agent Purchases Anywhere Mastercard is Accepted Online via AgentCard

The unified payments and identity product will integrate Mastercard Agent Pay and is designed to support Verifiable Intent, extending trusted agentic payments to developers,consumers and businesses alike. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17, 2026 /PR... Full story