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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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Japan Turns to Blockchain Settlement for Stocks & Government Bonds
Japan’s financial regulators are moving to build a national blockchain settlement network for stocks and government bonds, with the Financial Services Agency, Ministry of Finance and Bank of Japan (BOJ) launching a joint study group this summer and eyeing a development plan by early 2027.