• Banking Circle launched fiat-to-stablecoin and stablecoin-to-fiat settlement, enabling banks to move funds seamlessly across traditional and blockchain rails with instant settlement and regulatory traceability.
• The move comes days after Banking Circle received its CASP license, which positions Banking Circle to embed stablecoin capabilities directly into a bank’s existing infrastructure.
• Stablecoins are quickly emerging as an always-on settlement layer that is becoming standard in cross-border payments.

European cross-border payments fintech Banking Circle is narrowing the gap between stablecoin and fiat today. The fintech is launching stablecoin settlement services, a suite of fiat-to-stablecoin and stablecoin-to-fiat capabilities that will facilitate the movement of funds, regardless of whether they sit on bank rails or blockchain rails.

The announcement comes days after Banking Circle received a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). The newly minted license will allow Banking Circle to expand from cross-border fiat services into digital asset services.

“The award of our CASP license is an important milestone for Banking Circle, as well as for the broader payments ecosystem,” said Banking Circle CEO Laust Bertelsen. “Stablecoins have fast evolved from a peripheral innovation into core infrastructure for cross-border settlement, treasury management, and financial inclusion.”

Banking Circle will integrate its new stablecoin settlement service into banks’ existing infrastructure to help them take advantage of stablecoin rails. The new tools will offer increased security, lower risk, and more convenience than traditional global settlement rails, creating efficiencies for banks.

After they integrate with Banking Circle’s core platform, clients will be able to interoperate between fiat currencies and leading stablecoins, including USDC, USDG, and EURI. Leveraging stablecoin rails, Banking Circle will offer instant settlement and full regulatory traceability.

“We have spent years building the financial infrastructure that enables more than 750 payment companies, financial institutions, and marketplaces to efficiently move and convert over €1.5 trillion annually across the globe,” said Banking Circle Chief Digital Asset Officer Kirit Bhatia. “Stablecoins are a natural extension of that infrastructure and central to our mission of eliminating unnecessary cost and complexity through technology.”

Founded in 2013, Banking Circle was acquired by private equity firm EQT in 2018 for $300 million. Headquartered in Luxembourg and regulated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the bank is fully licensed and serves as a correspondent bank offering multi-currency bank accounts and virtual IBANs as well as bank connections for local clearing and cross-border payments.

Banking Circle has branches in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic and the UK, and subsidiaries in Liechtenstein, Singapore and Australia. 

Banking Circle’s announcement shows that banks across the globe are rethinking the underlying infrastructure of payments. Stablecoins are emerging as an always-on settlement layer that can complement traditional correspondent banking networks. As banks across the globe integrate stablecoin payments rails into their platforms, and as the global stablecoin market reaches approximately $293 billion, it is becoming clear that stablecoin rails are slowly becoming a standard part of cross-border payments, rather than an alternative.

• Moomoo launches API Skills to connect personal AI agents to trading and allow investors to use natural language to build and execute strategies without coding.
• The new tools include strategy validation, intent-to-execution translation, and 24/7 market monitoring inside a pro trading environment.
• Moomoo enables external AI agents via APIs, giving users control, flexibility, and local data security.

Online investment and trading platform Moomoo is launching agentic investing tools this week. The California-based company has launched API Skills to allow retail investors to connect their personal AI agents directly to Moomoo’s infrastructure.

With API Skills, investors can use natural language commands to create structured, executable investment strategies without coding. The tool integrates with multiple AI agent frameworks, enabling always-on agents that act as 24/7 trading assistants that continuously interpret market data, monitor conditions, and prepare trades based on a user’s goals within a professional-grade trading environment.

“With Moomoo API Skills, we are reducing the technical barriers that once stood between an idea and its execution, enabling clients’ personal AI agents to connect directly with our platform while ensuring investors retain full control of every decision,” said Moomoo Canada CEO Michael Arbus.

The new tool not only helps non-technical users automate their trading decisions, but it also helps investors save time by streamlining more complex workflows. Included in the API Skills are: automated strategy validation that allows users to review, refine, and validate their strategies before deploying them; intent-driven development that translates natural language commands into structured logic to execute the move in the market; and a volatility monitor that detects market shifts 24/7.

With Moomoo’s API Skills, all trading credentials and sensitive account data remain within the user’s local environment instead of passing through third-party AI servers. The new capability also allows users to test and explore their agent’s logic using virtual funds before moving the logic into the wild.

Moomoo isn’t the only trading platform empowering users with agentic trading. Last month, brokerage platform Public introduced AI agents to automate their portfolio strategies with AI. The two approaches are slightly different, however. While Public’s agents are native, consumer-facing agents geared toward retail investors, Moomoo is an API layer for builders that lets external AI agents plug into trading.

Founded in 2018, Moomoo has 29 million investors across Singapore, Australia, Japan, Canada, Malaysia, and New Zealand.

• Oracle is embedding agentic AI directly into corporate banking workflows, launching pre-built agents across credit, trade finance, treasury, and lending.
• The tools target some of banking’s most manual, document-heavy processes, enabling faster decisions and allowing teams to scale output without adding headcount.
• With a human-in-the-loop approach and hundreds more agents coming, Oracle is positioning AI as operational infrastructure.

Enterprise technology company Oracle is deepening its agentic AI prowess this week. The Texas-based company announced it is adding new embedded AI capabilities and agents for its corporate bank clients.

Oracle’s new agentic AI tools will offer clients a suite of AI-infused applications and pre-built AI agents for treasury, trade finance, credit, and lending. As a result, firms can automate once-manual processes and speed decision-making, ultimately unlocking new opportunities for growth.

“Corporate banking runs on precision, resiliency, and trust,” said Oracle Financial Services Senior Vice President Sovan Shatpathy. “Our AI-powered platform embeds intelligence directly into mission-critical processes, accelerating decisions and strengthening governance so banks can serve clients with greater speed and confidence.”

The two main pillars of the new launch include corporate credit and trade and supply chain finance. The corporate credit arm has five main agents that help with data extraction from loans, financial statements, and documents, and generate credit memo reports. The trade and supply chain finance has an application validator agent that ingests bank guarantee application packages and supporting documents and delivers a risk recommendation, as well as an agent that analyzes sales contracts and designs an appropriate supply chain finance program.

Because Oracle’s agentic AI takes a human-in-the-loop approach, all decisions are supported by human expertise, maintaining oversight and ethical governance. Oracle said that these agents are among “hundreds” of other corporate and retail banking agents that will launch in the next 12 months.

Much of the AI development we’ve seen in banking over the past two years has been customer-facing, taking the form of chatbots and personalization tools. Oracle’s new push into agents removes the strain from some of the most manual, document-heavy parts of corporate banking. Instead of just offering faster memo writing, Oracle’s tools allow credit teams to handle more deals without increasing headcount, offer a standardized approach to trade finance, and provide banks a way to offer faster response time to their clients.

• Airwallex launched Airwallex POS Payments, a physical point-of-sale device.
• The device will enable physical, in-store payments that integrate with Airwallex’s broader commerce stack.
• The new launch helps Airwallex compete with Square and Stripe, but Airwallex has an advantage in regions where it holds banking licenses.

While the rest of the payments world is racing toward agentic payments, Airwallex is bringing its focus back to the physical world. The Singapore-based company announced this week that it has launched Airwallex POS Payments, a physical point-of-sale (POS) device.

The new, physical device integrates with the company’s commerce stack to unify online and in-store payments. Bringing everything together will help merchants offer consistent payment flows, reporting, and customer experiences across multiple channels. Enterprise retailers will gain more visibility and control across channels, while SaaS platforms will gain the ability to embed in-store payments directly into their products.

“By extending our global financial platform to the physical countertop, we’re bringing online and in-store payments together, reducing the fragmentation that has long held in-store payments back, and giving enterprises a truly global foundation for growth,” the company said in its announcement.

Adding physical POS devices places Airwallex directly in competition with Square, a pioneer in the mobile POS hardware space, and Stripe, which offered to acquire Airwallex in 2019 for $1.2 billion. Airwallex has an advantage over these two legacy players in certain regions, however. In Japan, for instance, where the company holds a banking license, the fintech owns both the backend banking infrastructure, as well as the front-facing software. So when a merchant is paid, Airwallex can hold the funds instead of having to transfer them to the merchant’s primary bank account.

Founded in 2015, Airwallex holds nearly 90 regulatory licenses and permits across 50 markets that enable customers to operate in 200+ countries and regions and support multi-currency checkout at scale. In 2025 alone, the company extended its regulated and local capabilities across 12 new markets, securing licenses and launching products in France, the Netherlands, Israel, Canada, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico, and the UAE.

The new POS payments device is now available across the UK, Europe, Hong Kong, and Singapore, with plans to launch in Australia and the US, where it currently serves 46,000 businesses.