What shipped: new products, APIs, coverage and capabilities from payment companies and networks.
Citi and Coinbase announced an expanded partnership and launched two initiatives: Coinbase selected Citi’s Virtual Account Wallet (BaaS) to support Coinbase Virtual Accounts.
推荐理由：The original text specifies the respective roles of the two institutions and the settlement arrangements, allowing readers to assess how this fiat and stablecoin channel will be implemented.
Checkout.com built a continuously running AI agent layer to discover, test, and scale payment optimization strategies, while payment experts review proposals and set statistical thresholds. The platform currently runs more than 200 live experiments, and Intelligent Acceptance increases payment acceptance rates by an average of 3.8 percentage points; in 2025, the platform executed 10.5 billion optimizations, helping merchants recover $11.2 billion in revenue.
推荐理由：The article breaks payment optimization into independently verifiable experiments and explains how AI agents expand coverage across issuer, market, and card scheme combinations under human review and statistical thresholds.
Checkout.com has launched Issuing, offering card issuance, processing, and management capabilities for virtual and physical cards, allowing businesses to manage card programs through a single API. The product can use acquiring balances to fund cards in real time, and configure MCCs, spending limits, and authorization decisions; Checkout.com says businesses can also share in the interchange fee revenue from each card transaction.
推荐理由：Checkout.com brings card issuance, card processing, card program management, and acquiring balances together through a single API, while the materials also show specific paths for managing funds, authorization, and interchange fees.