Executive summary Australia is not debating whether AI agents can buy products. That capability is already entering live payment trials. The question now being written into policy is more consequential: who pays when an agent makes the wrong purchase,uses the wrong payment rail or acts outside the customer’s intent? The Reserve Bank of Australia’s 2026 Review of Payments System Regulation has exposed a clear divide. Commonwealth Bank,Westpac and Macquarie want the RBA to eng

On 15 September 2026, the US Senate voted 49–50 against invoking cloture on the motion to proceed to the CLARITY Act, H.R. 3633. The bill needed 60 votes to advance. It did not even secure a simple majority, with multiple Republicans voting against the motion. Senator Cynthia Lummis said the result meant “it’s over” for the bill. For digital-asset businesses, the immediate reaction was sharp. Bitcoin fell by roughly 3% to around US$76,000, Coinbase dropped about 8% and Circle

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Brazil’s Pix and the European Central Bank’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement platform, or TIPS, could be heading towards a new kind of cross-border payment connection. The important qualification is that this is not a confirmed launch. The Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) and ECB are still discussing feasibility, with the ECB describing the work as a pre-investigation into a potential interlink between the two systems. Reporting by Reuters via CNA, Folha de S.Paulo and Valor E

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