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Money & Markets
The card processor layer is entering stablecoin settlement, giving Marqeta's enterprise customers stablecoin-backed card capability without building crypto infrastructure.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The first quantitative evidence of deposit rate leverage over stablecoin demand creates a structural ceiling that the infrastructure buildout cannot outrun.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Allium's first comprehensive payment-volume report reveals that stablecoins are growing 7x faster than fiat cross-border rails, with B2B driving the surge. The supply infrastructure is finally catching up.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The $1.8B acquisition was about infrastructure, not branding. Now Mastercard is racing Visa to own stablecoin settlement before the GENIUS Act deadline.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The world's largest payment network has moved stablecoin prefunding from pilot to production via Inyo Global, making USDC a live funding source for payouts across 180-plus countries.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The first global financial regulator closes the loop on agentic structure. While Payward buys the perimeter, the FSB is defining what happens inside it.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Payward's Saldo Bank acquisition makes it the first crypto-native firm to own a regulated European bank. In Europe the regulatory perimeter is for sale; in America it is still a queue.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
A PR firm studied 2,893 crypto press releases and found 62% came from high-risk or scam projects. The numbers are self-reported. The mechanism they describe is not.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
FinCEN, the OCC, and OFAC coordinated the largest BSA enforcement action in Treasury history against the nation's second-largest bank. The structural signal matters more than the dollar figure: regulators are auditing the legacy rails while the GENIUS Act builds the new ones.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Philippine regulators just restricted the inbound banking rails for the country's largest stablecoin gateway. The move reveals where the actual power over machine-settled commerce lives: at the pipe, not the license.
◆ Nolan Pratt
