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The Senate moved the CLARITY Act toward a procedural vote but adjourned without resolving its 60-vote hurdle or demands for stronger safeguards. A delayed SEC exemption framework further narrowed the immediate path to regulatory clarity.
Stablecoins expanded across tokenized bank transfers, card spending, AI-agent payments, and proposed retail wallets. The week also brought pushback over reporting burdens, underscoring that compliance and customer distribution may matter as much as issuance.
Prediction-market platforms faced a widening conflict between federal support and state challenges over whether their contracts constitute financial products or gambling. The pressure reached both operations and banking access as restrictions increased and JPMorgan ended its relationship with Polymarket.
Bank of America committed up to $1.9 billion for as much as 49.9% of Jio Credit. The deal gives Jio capital and institutional credibility while signaling stronger global-bank interest in India's technology-led lending market.
RBC and BMO agreed to sell Moneris to Francisco Partners, transferring control of one of Canada's largest merchant-payments businesses from banks to private equity. The repeated disclosures emphasized the potential for technology investment and operational change under its new owner.
World Liberty Financial received conditional approval for a national trust bank charter, creating a path into regulated banking and possible stablecoin issuance. The approval remains incomplete and raises questions about conflicts of interest and supervisory independence.
PayPal continued negotiations with a buyer group that includes Stripe and Advent after rejecting an earlier offer. Any transaction would combine major consumer and merchant networks but still faces valuation, financing, and regulatory hurdles.
Banks and fintechs began defining how autonomous software could transact, assigning agents permissions, spending limits, credentials, and audit trails. Related developments connected agents to shopping and payments while leaving authorization, fraud, and accountability questions open.
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