Money & Payments
Stablecoins After the Hype: What Really Changed for Savers
A year on from the GENIUS Act, stablecoins have a rulebook. What they still do not have is interest for the people holding them. Here is what the evidence shows.
stablecoins
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Fintech
China Tripled Its Digital Yuan Bank Network. Here's Why It Matters
The People's Bank of China added eight banks to its e-CNY network on 17 August 2026, tripling authorised operators to 30 in a single year. What the digital yuan push means for cross-border payments and the dollar.
Fintech
PayPal's Digital Dollar Lands in Africa, and the IMF Is Already Nervous
PayPal has pushed its dollar-backed stablecoin into 27 more African markets just as the IMF warned in Cape Town about the currency-substitution risks of exactly this kind of expansion. Here is what it means for payments, monetary policy and the wider financial system.
FinTech
AI Agents Get a Wallet: Cloudflare and the New Money Rails
Cloudflare has issued AI agents a stablecoin wallet and a verifiable identity, completing a two-sided market for agentic commerce and pushing the x402 stablecoin settlement standard into mainstream infrastructure.