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Ondo Finance has gained 70% in a week as DTCC working group selection and a JPMorgan tokenization pilot drive ONDO demand.

Spain's homegrown payment app is making its biggest move yet, bringing account-to-account payments to the physical till and raising the stakes for US card giants.View on euronews

Fidelity National tops Q1 estimates as Banking Solutions surge 45% and margin gains lift EBITDA, while the company reaffirms full-year 2026 guidance.

By Jarrett Banks Corpay, Inc. (NYSE: CPAY) delivered the kind of quarter that shifts the narrative from a solid payments company to a potential long-term compounder. Across Wall Street brokerage reports, the themes were the same: accelerating Corporate Payments momentum, improving Lodging trends, durable double-digit organic growth, and a management team increasingly confident in the […]

AFRM beats Q3 estimates as GMV jumps 35% and transactions climb 45%, prompting higher fiscal 2026 guidance.

Mastercard has lagged behind the broader market over the past year, yet analysts remain highly optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to MasterCard (MA). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.

Mastercard and Yellow Card will explore real-world applications for stablecoin payments and related security tools.

The excitement of investing in a company that can reverse its fortunes is a big draw for some speculators, so even...

The number of new addresses appearing on the XRP network has dropped from 18,000 a day in December to 2,700 a day on May 7, as per Glassnode data. The figure hitting an 18-month low represents a decline of 85% during the period. Monthly active XRP supply has also sunk from 7.45 ...

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has opened a competition investigation into PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa over digital wallet funding and usage practices. The probe focuses on whether the companies' conduct may limit competition in the UK digital payments market. This action brings fresh regulatory attention to NasdaqGS:PYPL in one of its important international markets. PayPal, through its global digital payments platform, is closely linked to how consumers fund and use digital wallets...

Jack Dorsey-led Block raised its full-year outlook on Thursday as the payments firm benefited from resilient ‌consumer spending and strong growth in its core businesses. The ‌Oakland, California-based company now expects annual gross profit to be $12.33 billion in 2026, compared ​with its previous forecast of $12.20 billion. U.S. consumer spending remained broadly resilient ‌in the first three ⁠months of 2026, underpinned by a stable labor market and wage growth.

​Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) is one of the Best Stocks to Buy Before the Next Bull Run . The stock is down more than 10% on a year-to-date basis, but the Street expects more than 34% upside from the current level. ​Recently, on May 1, Macquarie analyst Paul Golding lowered the price target on Mastercard Incorporated […]

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) is one of the best strong buy stocks to invest in according to billionaires. Raymond James cut the price target on Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) to $609 from $631 on May 1, maintaining an Outperform rating on the shares. The firm told investors in a research note that the company delivered solid fiscal Q1 […]

FIS heads into Q1 earnings with Banking Solutions revenues expected to rise 37.7% and adjusted EBITDA to jump 42%: can it deliver a beat?

Without a consent and permission architecture built into the transaction record, disputes in agentic commerce will become almost impossible to arbitrate fairly — for merchants, consumers, and processors alike, warns Donald Kossmann

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) is participating in a cross border pilot to settle tokenized US Treasuries in near real time alongside Ripple, Mastercard, and Ondo Finance. The bank is also facing a lawsuit in China from HY Energy over the freezing of major fund transfers tied to US sanctions rules. For a global bank like JPMorgan Chase, this mix of digital asset settlement work and sanctions related scrutiny highlights how core banking activities are changing. Tokenized US Treasuries aim to move...

Six months ago, Mastercard, Ripple, WebBank, and Gemini ran a pilot on the XRP Ledger to settle credit card transactions through RLUSD. Then on May 6, JPMorgan’s blockchain platform, Kinexys, joined Mastercard, Ripple, and Ondo Finance to complete the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of a tokenized US Treasury fund. The redemption settled on the XRP ... XRP News: JPMorgan and Mastercard Settle Tokenized US Treasuries on XRP Ledger in 5 Seconds

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) is one of the 10 Strong Buy S&P 500 Stocks to Invest In. On May 1, 2026, Susquehanna lowered its price target on Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) to $665 from $670 and maintained a Positive rating. The firm said the year started strong, but April slowed, with cross-border travel growth decelerating to 2% […]

The FCA’s move comes amid rising digital wallet usage in the UK.

OKX Card data shows Europeans using crypto for groceries, restaurants, and daily essentials rather than luxury spending. Global crypto card spending has reached an $18 ...

Crypto market down 0.59% as money rotated into equities after the S&P's all-time high, with Bitcoin rejected on a bearish divergence.

JPMorgan, Ripple, Mastercard, and Ondo settled a tokenized US Treasury redemption across borders in near real time.

A group of financial and crypto firms have completed what they describe as the first near real-time cross-border, cross-bank redemption of a tokenized U.S. Treasury fund. Ondo Finance said the pilot was conducted with Kinexys by JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ripple — marking a step toward continuous, ...

Paypal (NASDAQ: PYPL) came into Q1 2026 as a company in the middle of a reset and still managed to beat across the board. Revenue landed at $8.35 billion versus expectations of $8.05 billion. Adjusted EPS came in at $1.34, comfortably ahead of the $1.27 estimate. Total payment volume hit $464 billion, up 11% year over year, the highest in its history. And yet, the stock fell almost 9% before the market even opened.

PayPal Holdings, Visa and Mastercard are under investigation by U.K. authorities for anticompetitive conduct related to PayPal's digital wallet. The Financial Conduct Authority, the finance regulator in the U.K., said Wednesday that it "has reached no conclusions nor made any findings" that competition law had been broken. Shares in Visa and Mastercard fell 1% and 1.4%, respectively, while PayPal shares were down about 0.33% as the broader market surged.

Major financial institutions use XRP Ledger to demonstrate blockchain's ability to settle tokenized Treasuries across borders in seconds.

GPN posts Q1 EPS beat as Worldpay momentum and Genius platform growth lift revenues despite rising expenses and higher debt levels.

V delivers a strong fiscal Q2 as VAS growth surged and earnings momentum accelerated, but premium valuation and regulatory risks could limit upside.

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) operates the infrastructure behind a large portion of global card payments, and on May 8, 2026, it will send shareholders another quarterly check. The payout is modest in yield terms but backed by one of the cleanest cash flow profiles in financial services. With the company trading near $497, let’s examine whether ... Here’s Why Mastercard’s Dividend Payout Looks Bulletproof