Executive summary The competitive battle in payments has moved from the checkout to the money itself. Canada’s six largest banks (RBC,TD,BMO,Scotiabank,CIBC and National Bank) have announced a joint project to build shared Canadian-dollar tokenised deposit infrastructure. The initial phase will focus on transfers between participating banks rather than consumer wallets. There is no launch date yet,but the project may later include other deposit-taking institutions. For merch

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When dLocal said on 17 September that a Level 1 compliance alert can take up to 60 minutes to investigate, it highlighted more than an AML workload problem. It exposed a payments performance problem. dLocal’s partnership with Oscilar is designed to extend AML monitoring, sanctions screening and case management across more than 60 markets and 1,000 alternative payment methods. The objective is to use agentic AI to assemble evidence and manage routine investigation work, while

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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

KEY TAKEAWAY The 15 September 2026 Senate vote on the CLARITY Act is a procedural gate, not the finish line. At 2:15pm ET, the Senate will vote on cloture on the motion to proceed. It will decide whether the bill can move to formal floor debate and amendments. It is not a final passage vote. That distinction matters for every business watching stablecoin payments. A successful cloture vote would create momentum, but still leave the Senate, House and President with significan

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Australia’s card surcharge ban will begin on 1 October 2026, removing surcharges on designated eftpos, Mastercard and Visa debit, prepaid and credit card transactions. The reform has been welcomed as a cost-of-living measure. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said removing surcharges will give Australians greater certainty at the checkout. But whether it will reduce inflation is a more complicated question. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) estimates that removing surcharges could

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The next payments infrastructure race is not simply crypto versus banks. It is a contest between fragmented private rails and interoperable, regulated money movement. On 26 August 2026, 39 US state banking associations announced the formation of the BankChain Alliance, an industry-owned initiative targeting a 2027 blockchain network for tokenised deposits, regulated digital money, smart payments and automated settlement. Separately, major US banks are backing a tokenised-depo

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