Stablecoins are growing fastest where they solve real problems: inflation hedges, FX access, faster payments. Turkey shows why that utility could reshape global finance. #stablecoins#payments#emerging-markets
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Pablo Fourez, chief digital officer at @Mastercard, compares agentic commerce to the shift from desktop to mobile. Merchants had to rethink how customers reached them then, and they'll have to do it again.
This time, catalogs, prices and live inventory need to be in a form an AI agent can find, evaluate and present to a shopper.
Watch Fourez and PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster break down how the consumer, the merchant, the payment credential and the ecosystem connecting them all have to work together when software does the shopping. https://t.co/YFv7K6pCg2
Total U.S. consumer credit increased $8.3 billion in August after rising $17.7 billion in July. Nonrevolving credit (auto and student loans) rose $13.1 billion and revolving credit (credit cards) decreased $4.8 billion https://t.co/sSA7o9DX1n
Bitcoin bitcoin:native falls to $83k finding support on the 60 week moving average.
This is a major test. Either this is the start of a new bull cycle or the first time the 364 bottoming pattern has been violated since Bitcoin's creation.
Back in March 2022, when it tested the 60 week moving average it marked the beginning of the end.
Will history repeat or is it "different this time"?
Under the competition between China and the United States, international supervision mechanisms need to be established for AI compliance and cross-border settlement using CBDCs.
AI is reshaping the way work is divided. In the financial compliance sector, it is necessary to leverage RegTech to integrate payment processes, thereby ensuring the retention of value and the security of cross-border settlements.
Trump's advocacy for AI liberalization could undermine the compliance framework of financial RegTech, accelerate innovation in cross-border settlement using CBDCs, but also increase systemic risks.
Love this reminder! Maybe we can apply it to our screens too - sometimes we get so caught up in scrolling through feeds that we forget about the world beyond them BalanceIsKey.
The Earth has become a balloon.
A sky full of app icons, each one connected to a screen in our hands.
We walk forward looking down, believing we're on our way somewhere.
But maybe, just sometimes, the journey is worth seeing with our own eyes.
Put the phone down. Look up. The world is bigger than your feed.