Dave Finances covers payments companies, digital wallets, card networks, remittances, cross-border payments, stablecoin payments, payment infrastructure, and financial technology partnerships. Our coverage focuses on product launches, regulation, market expansion, payment innovation, and developments shaping how consumers and businesses move money.
Coinbase is moving deeper into financial infrastructure with a new Samsung partnership that puts Coinbase Prime custody behind the USDC balance inside Samsung Wallet, giving the crypto exchange an institutional…
A cluster of fresh payment and funding incidents across Nigeria, Spain, Zambia and crypto exchange Kraken is exposing a less visible form of infrastructure risk: systems that recover, fail again…
How AI agents move from recommending a purchase to spending real money — and why identity, permission, payment tokens and dispute evidence matter more than the chatbot interface. Key takeaway…
Testing USDC and PYUSD remittance claims across the full retail journey – not just the blockchain transaction fee. Bottom line Stablecoins can make the transfer layer almost free, but a…
“Payments companies are adopting stablecoins” hides three different strategies: defend the network, own the interoperability layer, or turn stablecoins into merchant financial infrastructure. Visa Mastercard Stripe Regulatory backdrop >$20B annualized…
How payment processors are rebuilding identity, authorization, checkout, fraud and merchant integration for autonomous agents Bottom line Stripe is currently the most complete agent-native payments stack: it has discovery, delegated…
South Korea is proposing to bring transfers between domestic crypto exchanges and personal wallets into a new foreign-exchange monitoring framework, expanding government oversight beyond the more obvious flow of assets…
Kraken is dealing with an outage in its consumer payments infrastructure that is preventing Krak Card transactions and new card orders from completing for customers across the United Kingdom and…
A UAE software-company operator says a $3,850 customer payment has remained unresolved for roughly a year after Stripe suspended the company’s account, with the merchant claiming the money has neither…
PawaPay’s Monnify integration in Nigeria remained disrupted for almost 37 hours after the payment aggregator first reported degraded performance, extending well beyond a restoration target supplied by Monnify and exposing…