Cash App is turning a DIY social-media trend into a branded NFC accessory, signaling how payments companies now compete on experience, not just rails.

A Fortune experiment shows how vendors selling wellness drugs and research-only peptides are routing payments through stablecoins to dodge banks, and why that matters to regulators, founders, and payments teams.

GDS is moving about 1,000 GOV.UK Pay services to Adyen, adding pay by bank and shifting the economics for local public services.

British MPs urge the Bank of England to soften planned stablecoin regulations, warning that overly strict requirements could kill a nascent sterling-backed market before it starts.