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Ant Consolidates Alipay for the Agent Economy, Racing Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase to Define How AI Pays
Ant Group has merged its digital payments, Alipay and credit-scoring units into one business group, betting that AI agents will soon initiate a growing share of everyday transactions. That reorganization folds Ant’s most ambitious bet, the open-sourced Agentic Mobile Protocol, into one push: make Alipay’s rails the default route AIagents pay through. It’s the same…
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AI Agentic Payments Get Their Passport Rules, Not Yet Their Customs Union
India’s and China’s payment authorities, alongside Visa, Mastercard and Ant International, have each moved in recent weeks to build systems for identifying and authorizing AI agents that pay on people’s behalf, as far as we can see from the sources we reviewed. None of the three efforts yet says who is liable when an agent…
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MSCI Indonesia Index Sees the Storm GoTo Already Weathered
MSCI is dropping ride-hailing giant GoTo Group from its Indonesia index over a floor-priced, illiquid stock, even as fintech growth quietly takes over the company’s earnings engine. MSCI is dropping ride-hailing giant GoTo Group from its Indonesia index over a floor-priced, illiquid stock, even as fintech growth quietly takes over the company’s earnings engine.
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How Ride-Hailing Giant GoTo Group Might Become a Fintech Story
GoTo Group posted its second consecutive quarterly net profit in Q2 2026, as fintech growth and cost discipline lifted Indonesia’s largest digital platform out of a year-ago loss. GoTo Group posted its second consecutive quarterly net profit in Q2 2026, as fintech growth and cost discipline lifted Indonesia’s largest digital platform out of a year-ago…