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The United States-based Circle Internet Group, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, will acquire Singapore's Tazapay, a cross-border business-payments company, in an all-stock deal to expand its global payments network.

Consumers have spent more than $10.9 billion using payment cards linked to stablecoins, Hong Kong-based card company RedotPay quoted data from Paymentscan as saying.

The United States-based payment network Visa has joined BLOOM, an initiative led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to enable interoperability between traditional payment systems and stablecoin-based payment rails.

TP, a global digital business services company, and Singapore-based regulated digital payments provider dtcpay will jointly deliver 24/7 customer engagement operations, supporting dtcpay's customers and merchants in English and Mandarin across digital and voice channels.

Visa has announced a suite of new artificial intelligence (AI), stablecoin, and token capabilities at its Payments Forum 2026 in San Francisco.

Fasset, a banking and investment platform headquartered in the United States, has raised $51 million in a Series B funding round as it expands its stablecoin-powered banking and financial infrastructure services across Asia, including Southeast Asia, and other emerging markets.

AWARP, a financial infrastructure project focused on emerging markets, has secured a strategic investment from Animoca Brands to support the development of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and cross-border payment networks.

Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, Stripe processes over $1.4 trillion of payments annually, equivalent to 1.3 percent of global GDP. Stripe users include half of the Fortune 100, 80 percent of the Forbes Cloud 100 and 78 percent of the Forbes AI 50.