Three years ago, Finance & Development devoted a full issue (pdf) to anticipating “The Money Revolution,” driven by innovations in finance, such as crypto assets. That revolution is now unfolding.

The history of digital assets is famously topped with pepperoni. On May 22, 2010, a developer named Laszlo Hanyecz made the first commercial Bitcoin transaction by trading 10,000 BTC for two Papa John ...

The system enables AI agents to automatically pay for blockchain data and compute credits in USDC, as autonomous crypto applications gain traction. Blockchain infrastructure company Alchemy has ...

BOISE, Idaho — The city of Boise has officially rolled out its new utility payment system, which requires new users to create an account. To pay your city of Boise utility bill moving forward, ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...

Creator payments have emerged as one of the Creator Economy’s most persistent pressure points, not because money isn’t moving, but because it often moves too slowly, too opaquely, or through systems ...

Payment systems as we know them are disappearing. The need to move money from account to account, company to company, country to country, will undoubtedly persist—but how money moves is changing ...

Abstract: Thus, the aim of this research paper is to examine new methods of liquidity forecasting in the banking system with the emphasis on payment system data. It stresses the need for accurate ...

PayPal Holdings CEO Alex Chriss during the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India, in October. 2025 was a big legal year for stablecoins, with the passage of federal legislation and, more recently, the ...

Fetch.ai announced the first AI-to-AI payment system, allowing personal AIs to complete transactions autonomously via ASI:One, its proprietary agentic AI platform. The system supports payments by Visa ...