Payments Brief: Jul 21, 2026

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Payments and FinTech Daily delivers a concise, executive-level briefing on the most important developments in payments, banking, and financial technology. In today's episode: Ant International secures $1.2 billion for global payments infrastructure; OpenAI enables BLIK payments via Stripe for ChatGPT; Visa launches an AI Financial Assistant; Revolut Bank Australia gains regulatory approval; Circle creates a national trust bank for digital assets; SWIFT tests tokenized deposit payments; BBVA joins new SWIFT retail scheme. Today's episode is

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