Maple Brings Institutional Credit to Robinhood

Hey Payments Fanatic!

Maple is expanding its reach beyond DeFi.

The company has launched syrupUSDG on Robinhood Chain, making its institutional credit strategies available through USDG, the regulated stablecoin issued by Paxos. The product has also been approved as collateral for the vault powering Robinhood's Crypto Earn offering.

It's another sign that the gap between traditional finance, stablecoins, and consumer FinTech platforms continues to narrow.

Products that were once designed primarily for crypto-native users are increasingly finding their way into mainstream financial apps, supported by regulated stablecoins and familiar consumer platforms.

There's plenty more waiting below.

You'll also find an upcoming Yapily webinar on how real-time data and integrated payments are transforming SME lending, along with a practical CARF & CRS readiness assessment from Taxbit for firms preparing for the next wave of crypto reporting requirements.

See what else is shaping Payments. 👇 See you tomorrow!

Cheers,

Marcel

INSIGHTS

🎤 Yapily Webinars: How intelligent data and integrated payments are reshaping SME lending. Yapily will host a panel discussion on 8 July exploring how real-time data, AI, and integrated payments are reshaping SME lending. Moderated by Jason O'Shaughnessy (Director of Lending, Yapily), the panel features Tigana Sari (Allica Bank), Kai Hunter (Lovey), and Kate Kennedy (Navrisk). Register here

NEWS

🇦🇺 Maple brings its onchain credit engine to Robinhood Chain with syrupUSDG. The asset will power Robinhood Earn, combining regulated stablecoins, overcollateralized institutional lending, and onchain transparency through partnerships with Paxos, Steakhouse Financial, and Morpho.

🇺🇸 Taxbit has launched a free CARF and CRS Self-Assessment Tool to help businesses evaluate their readiness for evolving crypto tax reporting requirements. The 12-question assessment reviews onboarding, transaction reporting, and internal systems, providing a summary of compliance status and potential gaps.

🇪🇸 Getnet has rebranded PagoNxt’s SaaS payment infrastructure business as Getnet Platforms. The new brand unifies its cloud-native payment technology under Getnet, helping financial institutions modernize and scale payment capabilities without replacing their core infrastructure.

🇬🇷 Allianz Trade teams up with Mastercard to better support B2B travel payments. The enhanced solution protects issuers using Mastercard Virtual Card Numbers (VCNs), helping them extend credit to online travel agencies with reduced payment risk.

🌍 Airwallex has launched AgentOS, an AI toolkit that enables agents on platforms such as Claude, Cursor, and OpenAI to manage end-to-end financial workflows. The solution helps businesses unify financial data, automate cash management, execute transfers and currency conversions, and use AI to forecast liquidity and future cash flows.

🇺🇸 MetaMask launches Money Account, bringing DeFi yield and global spending to stablecoin balances. Money Account is a self-custodial account inside MetaMask that combines automated earning, instant spending, and one-click trading in a single balance.

🇬🇧 SumUp launches consumer account paying users to shop small. The account aims to reward spending at small and medium-sized businesses by offering 5% cashback on purchases made in SumUp’s merchant network, much of which is composed of smaller businesses and independent service providers.

🇺🇸 Klarna has received a favorable ruling in the PriceRunner litigation, awarding $1.97 billion. The award compensates for lost revenue caused by Google's preferential treatment of its own comparison-shopping service over independent price-comparison services, conduct that also drives up costs for consumers.

🇲🇾 Adyen powers online and offline payments for CeX Malaysia. The integration centralizes payment processing and reporting, helping CeX streamline operations across its franchise network and support multiple local and international payment methods.

🇺🇸 American Express has expanded Membership Rewards® by enabling eligible U.S. Card Members to redeem points directly at checkout with Apple Pay for online purchases, giving customers more flexibility to use rewards on everyday spending. 

🇮🇳 Bangladesh launches ‘Bangla QR’ nationwide to simplify digital payments. Introduced by Bangladesh Bank, the unified QR code platform is designed to modernise the country's payment ecosystem by enabling cashless transactions that are faster, more transparent and more cost-effective.

🌍 Eurobank has presented Banking Forward, a comprehensive overview of the Bank's digital banking ecosystem, highlighting the new digital banking experience, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the evolution of mobile banking, and the redesign of customer journeys for both retail and business customers.

🇧🇷 Nubank and Amazon Brazil expand their partnership with a complete checkout experience and greater payment flexibility. NuPay will now offer a complete checkout experience on Amazon, with all major payment options available.

🇫🇷 Unzer appoints Isabelle Bénard as Chief Product and AI Officer. At Unzer, she will lead product strategy and oversee the company's AI agenda, ensuring that artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of how products are developed, decisions are made, and merchants are served.

🇨🇦 Nuvei has strengthened its executive team with three key appointments: Samir Zabaneh as Chief Operating Officer, David McLaughlin as Chief Financial Officer, and Eli Rosner as Chief Product and Technology Officer. The hires support Nuvei’s next phase of global growth, with a focus on operational scale, financial discipline, and AI-driven product innovation.

🇹🇷 Turkey is pursuing membership in the Single Euro Payments Area, with government and financial institutions working on the initiative. Joining SEPA would enable faster, lower-cost, and more secure cross-border euro payments between Turkey and participating European countries.

🇨🇩 Visa and M-Pesa test stablecoins in DRC for cross-border payments, using stablecoins behind the scenes to settle M-Pesa wallet top-ups and make cross-border digital payments faster and more efficient. Read more

🇮🇳 J.P. Morgan Payments and NPCI team up to power real-time FX for cross-border UPI. The collaboration will enable end-to-end FX with secure, real-time conversion and settlement thereafter, helping clients make and receive cross-border payments with speed and transparency across multiple currencies.

🇪🇺 near.com brings Euros Onchain, enabling EU users to trade across crypto markets confidentially using their own wallets. Users can deposit euros into a crypto wallet via SEPA Instant, the EU's real-time payment rail, and receive EURe stablecoins against those euros.

🇺🇸 CPI Card Group has appointed Terra Grantham as Chief Financial Officer, following her tenure as interim CFO since February 2026. A longtime CPI executive, Grantham previously led Enterprise Strategy and Growth and brings more than 25 years of finance leadership experience to the role.

🌎 Payward completes acquisition of Reap, expanding B2B offering with global payments infrastructure. The acquisition expands Payward Services, the company’s B2B infrastructure platform, unlocking globally regulated infrastructure for card issuance and stablecoin payments.

GOLDEN NUGGET

🧠 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 👇Created by Arthur Bedel 💳 ♻️

Most merchants are sitting on a goldmine of #Payments data.

And most of them are not using it.

Companies lose $1.8 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚.

73% of companies still report unreliable or outdated data.

Data teams spend up to 80% of their time cleaning instead of analyzing.

So what does a team that uses payments data to its full potential actually look like?

It comes down to nine building blocks working together.

It starts with data ingestion across every source — checkout, PSPs, fraud engines, CRMs.

Followed by automated cleaning, deduplication, and homologation across formats and geographies.

From there, clear variable definitions (GMV, ROI, AR, CR) get aligned across teams.

And data is contextualized by industry, because retail, QSR, travel, and SaaS all behave differently.

On top of that foundation, exogenous variables get layered in — seasonality, regional trends, macro signals.

With real-time monitoring on every transaction and proactive alerts on revenue leaks, fraud anomalies, and customer shifts.

#AI implementation ties the whole thing together — producing context-aware strategies and workflow automation instead of yet another dashboard nobody opens.

Payments is no longer a processing problem.

It is a data and reasoning problem.

The winners will be the merchants who stop treating payments data as exhaust — and start treating it as the primary input for decision-making.

This is exactly what DEUNA built Athia for.

Athia sits on top of 638 data points per transaction and turns them into real-time, context-aware actions.

Not reports. Not dashboards. Actions.

KFC LATAM launched 20+ AI-powered initiatives through Athia.

Forecast accuracy improved 3.5x. Operational costs came down nearly 30%.

This is the future of #Fintech and #AgenticCommerce — and it is happening now.

🚨 Payments data is the most underutilized asset in commerce today.

👉 Are you using it — or just storing it? 

Better be using it.

Source: DEUNA

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