Marcel van Oost

Hey Payments Fanatic! Circle’s USDC just outpaced Tether’s USDT growth for the second year in a row. And the reason is becoming pretty clear. USDC’s market cap jumped 73% in 2025 to about $75B. USDT still grew, but at a slower 36%. Same pattern last year, too.

Hey Payments Fanatic! Euronet Worldwide is buying the merchant acquiring business of CrediaBank in Greece as part of a broader payments partnership. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2026. Under the agreement, Euronet will take over acquiring, run the bank’s ATM network, and give customers access to

Hey Payments Fanatics! Nodu just closed a $1.45M pre-seed round to help banks and FinTechs launch stablecoin services without rebuilding their stack from scratch. The London-based team is building a ready-to-use compliance and payments framework for stablecoins. Send. Receive. Hold. Report. All handled in one

Hey Payments Fanatic! Nuvei just received its Crypto-Asset Service Provider license under the EU’s MiCAR framework. With one license, Nuvei can now passport crypto-asset services across EU member states. No fragmented rules. No market-by-market setup. The full scope of what this enables is outlined in

Hey Payments Fanatics! Deutsche Bank just switched on the full Wero experience for its clients, with Postbank customers now fully live for both P2P transfers and e-commerce payments across Europe. This means real-time money transfers to friends and family and the ability to pay online, all through the

Hey Payments Fanatics! Visa just launched USDC settlement in the United States, opening the door for issuers and acquirers to settle directly in stablecoins. This is not a small pilot anymore. Visa is already running more than $3.5B in annualized stablecoin settlement volume, and now U.S. institutions can