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Ant International said its payments network links more than 150 million merchants with over 2 billion consumer accounts worldwide, supporting more than 300 payment methods across 220 markets.
The company handles more than 20 million transactions per day on average and is expanding across Asia,
The Bank of England has expressed concern about plans to reduce capital requirements for professional trading firms, citing potential increases in financial risk, according to reports from April 30. This position creates a disagreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority, which proposed the capi
Crypto exchange OKX introduced its Agent Payments Protocol (APP) on Wednesday, an open standard designed to enable AI agents to conduct full business cycles including payments, negotiations, and dispute resolution. The protocol follows similar offerings from competitors including x402, incubated by
April Blockchain Upgrades: Live Forks and Planning Phases
In April 2026, blockchain protocols took divergent paths—some delivering live mainnet changes, others refining future architectures. Polygon's Giugliano hard fork activated on April 8, Polkadot executed Runtime v2.1 through governance in la