Payments Brief: Sep 9, 2026

Payments and FinTech Daily delivers a concise, executive-level briefing on the most important developments in payments, banking, and financial technology. In today's episode: Visa expands a data offering for blockchain lenders; Revolut gains conditional US bank approval; Chime agrees to acquire Stride Bank; Circle to acquire Tazapay; Meta launches AI agent with Stripe checkout; Mastercard and Backbase announce agentic banking solutions; FIS unveils Embedded Banking Platform. The payments industry is increasingly moving toward ownership and orchestration.

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