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Singapore-based global payments and fintech arm of Ant Group, offering cross-border payments, FX, and digital treasury services to banks and merchants.
OCBC says it is the first bank to run tokenised deposits for Ant International, settling the group's SGD and USD transfers between Singapore and Malaysia 24/7. The deployment takes OCBC's deposit-token work out of interbank tests on Swift's ledger and into a live corporate treasury.
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Ant International says its upgraded forecasting model is in production at Citi, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Barclays, with a claim of 60% lower hedging costs attached.
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Each of the three spent the past year shipping its own agent payment protocol. Know Your Agent reconciles those stacks rather than building a new one, and none of them has said who pays when an agent buys the wrong thing.
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Bitdefender's free macOS beta attaches to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex and OpenCode as an MCP server, covers only the requests those tools route through it, and drops the container when the prompt ends.
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BlackRock plans to buy into the PHP 92.3 billion listing of GCash's parent, Bloomberg reported, and the Philippine SEC has cleared Mynt to get there selling only 12 percent of itself at PHP 10 a share.
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Ant International reports that merchants using AI to integrate its payment services quadrupled in a year, and that 89.5% of Antom merchants now run AI agents. Both figures are its own count. The one-hour onboarding is still a forecast for the end of 2026.
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Mastercard will issue one-time-use card credentials to AI agents that cardholders authorize in advance, in a partnership with the startup Alchemy. Its chief AI and data officer has said the fraud rules have to change first.
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Three payment firms say they have started on a shared way to identify AI agents that pay. Each already ships a protocol covering part of the job. The authorization schema an agent builder would implement is still unwritten.
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Google's Agent Payments Protocol makes an agent's authority to pay a cryptographically signed mandate holding price limits, timing and other conditions. Whoever drafts those conditions is setting spend policy.
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A dev.to roundup reads three agent papers around one design question: what a pending action still depends on at the moment it fires. The strongest number in it is 68 percent, and it belongs to somebody else's corruption test.
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The Sao Paulo framework promises that an agent registered with one network will be recognized by the others, with certification and continuous monitoring attached. No specification, governance body or timeline has been published.
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American Banker's survey counts banks that have built a token rather than payments that have moved through one, and the deals it names so far reach one Thai bank and a loan network of 600 members.
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July was the biggest month for new unicorns in more than four years, and H1 alone had already beaten the whole of 2025. One company priced at $1.1 billion is less than a year old.
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