The card will be available as a virtual option and as a metal physical card featuring a black Samsung logo.

Visa launches the Visa Stablecoin Platform, giving financial institutions and fintechs a dedicated enterprise platform for stablecoin access and management. The new platform supports onchain wallet infrastructure, fiat on and off ramping, and integration into existing Visa payment flows. This move extends Visa’s crypto and digital asset efforts, aiming to make stablecoins easier to use for treasury, settlement, and new product offerings. Visa, traded on the NYSE under the ticker NYSE:V, is...

Zions Bancorporation, N.A. (NASDAQ:ZION) reported sharply higher second-quarter 2026 earnings, helped by one-time gains, while management pointed to steady net interest margin, modest loan growth, stronger fee income and solid credit quality. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Harris Simmons said

Samsung Electronics on Monday launched its first U.S. co-branded credit card with Barclays, deepening its push into the financial services space ‌in the country and signaling plans to broaden its offerings in the future. The Samsung Galaxy ‌Card, issued by Barclays and running on Visa's network, will allow users to apply, manage accounts, track spending and redeem ​rewards entirely through Samsung Wallet. The credit card launch also puts Samsung in direct competition with Apple Pay, which dominates payment services in the U.S. The launch comes as technology companies and banks race ‌to deepen ties between digital wallets ⁠and financial products, seeking to make smartphones the primary device for payments and money management, and both Samsung and Barclays want to capitalize on it.

Mizuho cuts Circle to underperform, citing rising stablecoin competition and risks from Open USD.

Costco, Fastenal, and Visa all pass Warren Buffett's classic quality screen, but passing the quality test and clearing the valuation bar are two very different things. One of these compounders is a trap at current prices, one deserves patience, and one looks like the setup Buffett himself would recognize.

V's asset-light model, AI payment initiatives and expanding value-added services strengthen its case over AXP for long-term growth.

A settlement over swipe fees could mark a major shift for retail payments as merchants embrace surcharges on high-end cards.

Most retirees chase the bigger check and never realize the smaller one could eventually pay them twice as much. The yield tier you choose today locks in a trajectory that plays out for decades.

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Experts warn that AI-powered finance tools can expose sensitive data if you’re not careful.

American Express (NYSE:AXP) has joined Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe in backing the x402 Foundation, an AI driven, open source payment protocol initiative. The company has also raised the annual fee on its Platinum card, marking the first change to this premium product’s pricing since 2021. For investors watching American Express, these moves highlight how a long established payments and card issuer is responding to shifts in technology and customer expectations. The x402 collaboration links...

With its stock trading at a deep discount, PayPal is betting a new CEO and a major overhaul can fix what's broken, forcing investors to weigh a potential bargain against a difficult transformation.

The Trump administration imposed 25% tariffs on Brazil, citing its PIX payment system and other alleged unfair trade practices.

STORY: A selloff of high-flying chip stocks is sparking fresh concerns about the sustainability of the AI-driven surge amid a nearly trillion-dollar spending boom. "The level of spend is so high now that [AI-related] companies are now starting to have to issue debt to fund it," Lynch said. "And that's kind of a dividing line. And [there's] going to be some increased skepticism... on these AI trades going forward." As a result, said Lynch, "you're going to see more rotation into these other areas," ones he calls "wide economic moat businesses that have great 10-year kind of durability to their cash flows and their earnings." He names Mastercard and Visa among them, as well as insurance company Aon.

V's Stablecoin Platform aims to simplify blockchain payments, helping institutions adopt stablecoins while expanding enterprise use cases.

Visa (V) trades at $365.14 per share on a $660.2B market cap and 29.7x trailing earnings. Under a conservative 3-year scenario, the math points to roughly 42% upside. Revenue compounding does most of the work in our scenario. Here is the picture that the math sits on top of.

Wedgewood Partners, an investment management company, released its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Wedgewood Composite delivered a net return of 9.4% in the second quarter compared to 15.2% for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, 16.7% for the Russell 1000 Growth Index, and 13.9% for the Russell 1000 […]

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Wall Street and crypto's convergence snapped into focus, while crypto majors gave back most of the week's gains as broader markets sold off.

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A pack of major fintechs have joined a nonprofit seeking to standardize how payments are sent online using artificial intelligence and software.

Visa, Stripe and Google have joined the x402 Foundation as premier members, adding three of the biggest names in payments and search to an effort to build an open standard for machines that pay each other. The foundation, affiliated with the Linux Foundation, is developing x402, a protocol...

Visa stock has delivered a 55.9% return over the past three years, yet the latest valuation checks suggest the shares are no longer an obvious bargain, with the intrinsic value estimate from the Excess Returns model sitting close to the current market price while earnings based multiples screen on the expensive side. That 55.9% three year return sets a high bar for new buyers, as a lot of good news may already be reflected in Visa's valuation. Recent attention on Visa's role in payment...

In the most recent trading session, Visa (V) closed at $365.14, indicating a +2.82% shift from the previous trading day.

Dimon says JPMorgan Chase is firing on all cylinders.

Scott Melker discusses how Visa (V) will allow AI agents to use stablecoins for micropayments. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.

Visa's Stablecoin Platform packages OUSD access, wallet infra, and treasury integration for institutions entering crypto.

The Visa Stablecoin Platform will let financial institutions integrate stablecoin payments and treasury operations into Visa's existing network.

PYPL faces a $53B+ takeover bid from Stripe and Advent as slowing profitability raises the stakes for a potential deal.

Investing.com -- Clear Street launched coverage of the payments sector on Thursday, initiating Buy ratings on Visa and Mastercard while starting Block and PayPal at Hold.

Scott Melker discusses the latest crypto-related headlines. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.

Visa said its new stablecoin platform will allow banks, fintechs, and crypto firms to issue, store, transfer, and redeem stablecoins through a managed infrastructure.

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has launched a new enterprise platform that brings stablecoin issuance, wallets and payment mov...

Investors don't just have to look at up-and-coming fintech stocks to gain adequate exposure.

The new platform lets banks and fintechs mint, move, and manage stablecoins directly through its network.

Both Best Buy and Visa just flashed the same bullish technical signal, but one stock has already sprinted past its analyst target while the other sits on a very different runway. Here is what separates a potential value trap from a compounder worth owning.

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Picture two retirees, each with a fresh $1 million to invest, staring at the same market on the same morning. One builds a portfolio of high-yield covered-call funds, mortgage REITs, and business development companies, aiming for roughly $100,000 in annual distributions. The other buys dividend growers yielding closer to 2%, collecting about $20,000 in year one. ... The $1 Million Portfolio With Two Very Different Futures

Morningstar says a Stripe-led takeover makes strategic sense but questions whether the reported $60.50-a-share offer will ultimately materialize.

The updated portfolio includes a three-tier card suite, spanning Visa Infinite and two new tiers.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) just posted the biggest-ever quarterly profit by a U.S. bank. But that record alone is not the reason retail investors should care. The $21.2 billion profit involved gains that won’t recur each quarter. Visa-related transactions added $4.6 billion, while some equity investments ...

In recent weeks, Visa and partners including Thredd, Worldline, ING, Cleverbridge, ACE Money Transfer, eDreams ODIGEO and Kyivstar’s Uklon have rolled out AI-driven “agentic” payment pilots, cross-border remittance enhancements, and new acceptance infrastructure that use Visa tokenisation and Visa Payment Passkeys to support secure, AI-initiated and real-time transactions across Europe and beyond. Visa’s launch of its AI Financial Assistant, offered as a white‑label service inside banks’...

Today, July 15, 2026, the $53 billion acquisition proposal sent shares up 17% on record trading volume, with investors debating whether the premium is sufficient.

A new BNY Wealth survey finds affluent families are delaying wealth transfers as longer lifespans, complex assets, and difficult family conversations reshape estate planning.

Stablecoins settled $33 trillion on-chain in 2025, more than Visa and Mastercard combined. Their remarkable rise is one of the most exciting stories in crypto right now, and there are no signs it will slow down anytime soon. It raises a very important question: what real-world asset (RWA) will ...

PYPL trades well below peers on valuation, but can AI commerce, Venmo growth and new partnerships offset cautious 2026 guidance and competition?