Payments Brief: Aug 31, 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: Affirm and Shopify expand Shop Pay Installments in Australia; DBS and Stripe partner for cross-border payments in Asia; OpenPayd integrates with Circle Payments Network for faster cross-border fiat payments; Visa joins the BLOOM initiative for payment system interoperability; the OCC revises bank supervision policies; Socure acquires Fravity in a $156 million deal to enhance fraud prevention; Helcim raises $38 million to expand SMB payment processing. Together, these stories reflect a trend toward more integrated and interoperable payment systems at every level.

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