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Mastercard and J.P. Morgan to Streamline B2B Payments with Blockchain

Fintech News

Morgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments, connecting blockchain-based tools with real-time payment rails. Morgan’s blockchain business unit, facilitates real-time money transfers using commercial bank funds. This partnership combines Mastercard’s expertise in blockchain-based solutions with J.P.

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Mastercard Advances Stablecoin Use for Consumer Payments, Merchant Settlements

Fintech News

In partnership with OKX, Mastercard is launching the OKX Card to give users more convenient access to digital funds and engage more people in blockchain applications. Partners like JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, and Ondo Finance are connected to the platform to explore new digital asset use cases.

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In Conversation With Emirates NBD: Embracing AI, Blockchain and Quantum for Digital Transformation

The Fintech Times

Emerging tech: High-stakes opportunities The hype surrounding AI, blockchain and quantum computing continues to grow, and for good reason. We have invested in a robust AI infrastructure, including our own compute capabilities, and we use both regional and international cloud models based on the nature of the use case.

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PayPal USD Expands to Arbitrum, Bringing Layer 2 Efficiency to Multi-Chain Development Stack

PayPal

July 17, 2025 – Today, PayPal announced that it is expanding PayPal USD (PYUSD) onto Layer-2 blockchains starting with Arbitrum. As PYUSD expands beyond Ethereum and Solana into this initial Layer 2 blockchain, Arbitrum serves as a foundation for future expansion to additional scaling solutions. San Jose, Calif.,

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Algorand Foundation and Paycode Announce Partnership to Expand Financial Inclusion on Blockchain

Fintech Finance

Through this collaboration, Paycode and Algorand will explore integrating public blockchain technology to strengthen digital identity systems, improve transparency, and unlock new models for delivering secure, inclusive payments at scale. “Paycode is already reaching some of the most difficult places to serve. .

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Tokenisation 2.0: Are we ready for the next generation of payment security?

The Payments Association

This enables rapid scaling of new payment use cases, without duplicating risk exposure. Using blockchain infrastructure, real-world assets (RWAs) – such as real estate, equity, and intellectual property – can be digitised, fractionalised, and traded globally with greater transparency and efficiency.

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Project Guardian: Interoperability From Tokenised Bank Liabilities Could Save Firms $50bn in FX Fees

The Fintech Times

As a Project Guardian participant, Ant International also leveraged its blockchain-based Whale platform to develop a global treasury management use case for real-time multi-currency clearing and settlement.