{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Payments News","title":"Daily Payments News - DNP 2026-01-31_ 0501","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/0ddfbdc4\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":164,"description":"Agentic Payments, Crytpo, Fintech and the future of Commerce... every day in 5 minutes\n...\nEPISODE_SUMMARY:\n- Visa and Mastercard view stablecoins as poor substitutes for checking, savings and real-time transfers in developed-market retail payments.\n- Both networks shift focus to cross-border corridors, corporate treasuries and remittances, where speed, stability and dollar access drive demand.\n- Visa has launched stablecoin advisory services, issued cards with stablecoin wallets in ~50 countries and reached $4.6 B annualized corporate settlement volume.\n- Mastercard concentrates on narrow cross-border use cases, aligning with Visa in downplaying everyday consumer uptake in mature markets.\n- Legacy networks are building interoperable, programmable-money rails to integrate stablecoins and fiat, balancing innovation with compliance and fraud controls.\n- This infrastructure investment anticipates AI-driven, agentic commerce needing low-latency, tokenized payments and turnkey settlement capabilities.\nEND_SUMMARY","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kb5Hp9DycmB8teRLdWO0rJyWxI9UmZnhMfuojudJQY4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNzAw/YjAyZTFmOTY3NTc2/NTgwZjg1NDM3ODgy/ZGFmMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}