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Stablecoins are reshaping how money moves across borders and balance sheets 🌍💸
Faster, cheaper, and more transparent, they are creating new opportunities for banks, fintechs, merchants, and corporates. This raises an important question: how should we approach stablecoins?
a. Embrace them wholeheartedly 💪
b. Avoid them completely ❌
c. Ignore them and hope they go away 🤷
To help navigate this evolving space, The Paypers’ Global Stablecoins Report 2026 dives into:
• Stablecoin fundamentals and ecosystem overview 📘
• Cross-border and B2B payments 🌐
• Operational and regulatory insights ⚖️
• Emerging technologies and orchestration 🤖
• Strategic opportunities for banks, merchants, and PSPs 🚀
A big thank you to our contributors: @B2C2Group, CageChain Media Group, LLC, Cybrid, EY-Parthenon, @ingenico and @WalletConnect, @MetaCompHQ, @neirajones, @OpenPayd, @withpersona, @RapydGlobal, SG-FORGE, Triple-A, @Unlimit_com, @volantetech, and @WorldlineGlobal🙏
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The European Central Bank (@ecb) has chosen 36 payment service providers (PSPs) from across the euro area to participate in a pilot programme designed to test the technical functionality and operational processes of a potential digital euro.

Read more: https://t.co/lL1Ow7plkm

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OpenMatter Network has joined the Hashgraph Online Partner Program to help develop standards for autonomous AI systems.

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.@1KosmosBlockID has extended its partnership with @Microsoft to become an official Entra Verified ID services and solution partner.

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@iDenfy has integrated Austria's Handy-Signatur eID into its identity verification platform, adding a non-document verification option.

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4/ Pirkner points to partnerships (incl. Discover, Alipay+) as early steps toward this — extending acceptance while keeping European control on the payer side. His conclusion: the missing piece isn't technology, it's alignment between public and private actors, and speed of execution.

Full interview: https://t.co/uBqBCrZ8oY

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Payments aren't a mature utility — they're at a format shift, says @Bluecode CEO Chris Pirkner. He compares it to how music, video, and advertising moved from physical formats to interoperable digital platforms. Europe's payments market may be next. 🧵

https://t.co/IMjOyH2Z74

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@bluecode 3/ His proposed path: payment roaming. Like telecoms, where you keep your home provider but use it abroad via shared frameworks. Applied to payments, consumers could use a familiar domestic method cross-border without re-onboarding into a new scheme.

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@Revolut has confirmed plans to launch its US banking business in 2027, offering FDIC-insured deposits, loans, credit cards, and crypto access.

Read more: https://t.co/2HyJn92yza

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.@soynumx has been authorised by the @cnbvmx to operate as a full bank ▶️ upgrading from its SOFIPO licence. Customers won't see any disruption during the 30-day transition.

🗨️ Read more: https://t.co/od71m65jIq

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.@Revolut X now connects directly to AI assistants like @claudeai, @Gemini, and @cursor_ai ▶️ letting users check portfolios, get market data, set alerts, and place trades in plain language, no coding required.

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.@Klarna locked in its first forward flow and warehouse financing deal in Germany ▶️ a €900M facility to fuel its Fair Financing products.

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.@Mastercard is reportedly exploring selling a majority stake in @Vocalink (the UK infrastructure behind 90%+ of salaries, 70%+ of bills, and 98% of state benefits) to a consortium of UK banks.

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.@mangopay went from 7 to 24 currencies on its Virtual Accounts. Same dedicated wallet architecture, way more room to scale globally.

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@CoinMarketCap future. innovation. opportunity

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Atome Philippines secured an $81M wholesale facility from @AUBofficialph to fuel growth of its PayLater Anywhere Card ▶️ already in the hands of 3M+ Filipinos, 80% of them first-time credit users.

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.@monzo automated debt consolidation. Its new tool, built with @ClearScore, that finds your existing debts and pays lenders directly ▶️ no more juggling settlement yourself after the loan lands.

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Sony got approval for a US trust bank subsidiary ▶️ a foundation for its own dollar-pegged stablecoin, aimed at payments within video games and anime content.

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.@StarlingBank's app can now detect the exact motion of your phone being snatched, and lock itself instantly. The feature responds to a 64% summer spike in phone-related fraud, using your phone's accelerometer to spot theft in real time.

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Belgium's @FSMA_info just flagged six crypto providers operating without MiCA authorisation ▶️ days after the EU's transitional period ended. The first sign of enforcement as regulators start applying the new licensing rules across the bloc.

🗨️ Read more: https://t.co/NojQsPhWEa