Innovation
Network Tokenization Explained: How Visa and Mastercard Replace Card Numbers
Card networks now route most card-on-file and mobile transactions through a substitute number called a network token, and issuers say the swap measurably cuts…
Innovation: New Ideas and Research
Stablecoin settlement, tokenized deposits, instant payout and new authentication examined for measurable gain over the systems already carrying the volume.
Innovation
How Agentic Commerce Would Let AI Agents Pay for You
Protocols released between May 2025 and March 2026 — Google's AP2, the OpenAI-Stripe ACP, Coinbase's x402 and Stripe's MPP — define how an AI agent could pay…
Innovation
How AI Underwriting Is Changing Credit Decisions at U.S. Banks
Banks now run machine-learning models on cash-flow and bureau data to rank credit applicants, while Regulation B adverse-action rules and CFPB circulars require…
Innovation
Why Payments Cryptography Faces a Hard Quantum Migration Deadline
NIST published final post-quantum standards in August 2024 and proposed phasing out RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography by 2035, giving payment systems a decade…
Innovation
How ISO 20022 Is Rewiring Payment Messages Across Fedwire and SWIFT
Fedwire switched to ISO 20022 in a one-day cutover on March 10, 2025, and SWIFT retired legacy MT payment messages in November 2025, giving banks structured…