Payments Wrap Up

Payments Wrap Up newsletter is a daily Substack by Sam Boboev that condenses the day's payments, fintech, crypto and cross-border settlement news into short posts.

What a fortnight looks like The archive for the first half of October shows one post nearly every day. Topics include Mastercard and BVNK bridging traditional currencies with stablecoins (16 October), Visa and StraitsX expanding digital-asset payment cards worldwide (15 October), Visa receiving clearance to set up domestic operations in China (14 October), Kraken winning regulatory approval in Dubai (13 October) and Mastercard with WEX launching fleet payments in Asia-Pacific (12 October). Earlier came Mastercard's offline transactions across Europe, OKX reaching a 25 billion dollar valuation, Rain seeking a national trust bank charter, ANZ settling a cross-border payment with a tokenized deposit, Citi launching multi-market instant payments via Swift, Stripe acquiring Parafin and Lloyds testing stablecoin infrastructure with Visa.

Why payments people read it For a PSP or exchange team it is a fast scan of who signed with which network, who got which licence and which settlement pilots went live. Posts are in English.