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Mastercard Advances Stablecoin Use for Consumer Payments, Merchant Settlements

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Mastercard is also developing ways for stablecoins to streamline settlements across currencies through its Multi-Token Network (MTN), which supports real-time payments and redemptions. 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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Digital Rupiah Inches Closer with Successful Completion of PoC

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Indonesia has reached a significant milestone in its journey toward exploring the potential of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with the completion of the Proof of Concept (PoC) for the wholesale Digital Rupiah under the auspices of Bank Indonesias Project Garuda.

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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.

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Fuelling cross-border payments transformation through financial institutions, Ventura Capital leads growth round in Payall Payment Systems

The Payments Association

Payall Payment Systems, the world’s first provider of end-to-end infrastructure that enables financial institutions to offer institutional-grade, safe, fast, low-cost, transparent and inclusive cross-border payments for B2X, P2X and G2X use-cases, has selected Ventura Capital to lead their Growth Round raise.

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Greater Flexibility: BVNK Wallet Offers Stablecoin, Crypto and Fiat Payments All in One Place

The Fintech Times

BVNK will hold on to or exchange balances and deal with third-party payments through its multi-rail access, all in a single product. But theyre not perfect for every use case and moving money between traditional currencies and stablecoins is still challenging.

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13 APAC-Born Companies Recognized Among Top Global Cross-Border Payment Leaders of 2025

Fintech News

In particular, its DBS Globesend solution for cross-border payments spans 132 currencies and 190 countries. Nium operates a payout network that supports 100 currencies and which spans more than 220 markets, 100 of which in real-time. The company claims it has managed over US$1 million transfers, totaling more than US$66 billion.

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

PayPal

Micropayment Viability : With transaction costs typically under one cent, PYUSD unlocks potential use cases including content micropayments, usage-based billing, and instant rewards distribution that would be economically unfeasible on other networks. San Jose, Calif., Reserves for PayPal USD are fully backed by U.S.

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