Visa Direct has begun offering a stablecoin prefunding capability to cross-border payment companies, allowing eligible clients and partners to use USDC to prefund Visa Direct cross-border payment funds in near real time. The first integrator, Inyo Global, has integrated the capability into its platform, enabling businesses to manage cross-border payments through existing Inyo APIs across more than 180 countries.
推荐理由：The original text explains how Visa Direct uses USDC prefunding to support cross-border payments and describes Inyo Global’s integration method and coverage, making it easier to understand the specific use of stablecoins in the prefunding process.
Stripe has introduced three global updates for fintech companies, including expanding Global Payouts, launching stablecoin card issuance in 27 EU countries, and providing a unified API stack. Global Payouts now supports sending instant stablecoin payments to 160 markets and fiat currency payments to more than 100 markets; stablecoin cards are available in more than 65 countries worldwide, with plans to expand to 100 countries by the end of 2026.
推荐理由：The update brings payments, stablecoin card issuance, and Treasury capabilities into a unified stack, providing a concrete reference for the coverage and compliance integration of cross-market financial products.
Mastercard and BVNK have launched Mastercard Global Money Platform, which supports banks, fintech companies and businesses in holding, converting, paying with and spending fiat currencies and stablecoins through a single API.
推荐理由：The platform brings the holding, conversion, payment and spending of fiat currencies and stablecoins into a single API and connects to Mastercard Move, demonstrating a path for businesses to integrate treasury management with local payouts.
Stripe and Plasma have partnered to launch a multi-currency stablecoin card, allowing cardholders to spend directly from the currencies they already hold and reduce unnecessary conversion and FX costs. The program currently covers more than 30 countries and supports USD, EUR, OUSD, and stablecoins that meet GENIUS-ready requirements, with the goal of expanding to more than 100 countries by 2027. Stripe’s stablecoin card infrastructure will also support more currencies and stablecoins, enabling businesses operating across markets to issue cards matched to their spending needs.
推荐理由：The project covers both fiat currencies and stablecoins, and provides the current country coverage and subsequent expansion target, making it easier to assess the use cases for multi-currency cards in cross-border spending and corporate card issuance.
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Visa has launched a commercial service incorporating stablecoins into Visa Direct and, through Inyo Global, supports businesses in sending domestic and international payouts to more than 180 countries; Mastercard has partnered with BVNK to launch the Global Money Platform. The platform allows users to spend stablecoins at hundreds of millions of merchants worldwide that accept Mastercard, with initial users including Nuvei, Marqeta, Ontop, Beem, and Almond Fintech.
推荐理由：The two services cover stablecoin funding, cross-border payouts, and merchant spending respectively, demonstrating concrete pathways for card networks to integrate stablecoins into everyday money movement.
Mastercard and BVNK have launched Global Money Platform, integrating Mastercard’s payment capabilities with BVNK’s stablecoin infrastructure, now available through BVNK. Banks, fintech companies and businesses can embed multi-currency accounts into their own products and manage funds, payments and settlement; the accounts support fiat and stablecoins, real-time conversion, stablecoin-linked cards and local bank payments. The platform will also support other regulated forms of money in the future, including agentic commerce and tokenized deposits.
推荐理由：The platform integrates fiat accounts, stablecoin infrastructure, real-time conversion and local payments into a single product, enabling banks, fintech companies and businesses to build multi-currency financial services.
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AmEx launches Intent Intelligence Framework, which captures and authenticates customer intent before an agent completes a purchase, providing it to issuers for payment authorization, fraud prevention, and dispute resolution. Forter introduces Agentic Commerce Engine to help merchants verify agent shoppers and manage agent transaction processes, fraud risks, and activity monitoring.
推荐理由：AmEx brings customer purchase intent into the payment process earlier and connects it with authorization and risk controls, while Forter adds agent verification and transaction management capabilities from the merchant side.