SINGAPORE: Payments giant Visa is looking to launch agentic commerce pilots across the Asia-Pacific region as regulatory and ecosystem readiness advances by early next year. Agentic commerce refers to a new era where AI-powered agents shop and pay on behalf of users. The company’s Visa Intelligent Commerce (VIC) programme incorporates features like tokenisation, authentication, payment…
Strategy’s leveraged bitcoin approach came under fresh scrutiny Sunday as critics questioned whether Michael Saylor’s firm can withstand prolonged market stress. Among the most vocal was longtime Bitcoin detractor Peter Schiff, who chairs Schiff Gold and serves as chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management. In a series of posts on X, Schiff argued…
PATNA/NEW DELHI: RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya’s outburst at her brother Tejashwi Yadav and his close associates for “abusing” and “throwing” her out of home is snowballing into a full-blown family feud and hints at increasing internal rumblings over the decisions of the party’s anointed heir after its bid for office unravelled spectacularly…
A street sign is seen near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York, U.S., August 7, 2025. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters New York Federal Reserve President John Williams met with Wall Street’s dealers last week about a key lending facility, the Financial Times reported, citing three individuals familiar with the…
President Donald Trump has said Americans could see $2,000 tariff dividend checks in 2026, but no exact date has been set yet, although he hinted at the timeline.The payments are expected to come from revenue raised through tariffs.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump said the checks will not arrive in time…
Bitcoin slipped to its lowest level since May on Sunday before paring some losses, as sentiment across the crypto market stayed locked in extreme fear. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index stood at 10, in its extreme fear band, after already sitting at the same level on Saturday. Bitcoin BTC$94,386.75 was trading around $95,087 at…
Amit Thackeray (in black) NAVI MUMBAI: Nerul police have filed an FIR against Amit Thackeray, the son of MNS chief Raj Thackeray and 70 MNS workers including office bearers for defying police prevention and forcibly unveiling the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in a canopy constructed by NMMC at a junction in sector -1, Nerul…
Charlie Javice’s story sounds almost too bizarre to be real: a young fintech founder who tricked JPMorgan into buying her startup for $175 million, ended up convicted of fraud, and is now serving a prison sentence, yet the same company she scammed is still paying more than $142 million for her legal bills, including questionable…
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s trial followed the law and the judge overseeing his case should not consider acquitting him of all charges, federal prosecutors said. In a post-trial filing dated last Wednesday, attorneys with the Department of Justice’s Southern District of New York office pushed back against Storm’s motion for acquittal, saying they had…
SRINAGAR: Inspector Asrar Ahmad Shah called his cousin at 10.50pm on Friday, asking him to wait on the highway so they could drive home to Kupwara together after work. Thirty minutes later, an explosion ripped through Srinagar’s Nowgam police station, killing Asrar and eight others. The victims were police officers, forensic personnel, revenue officials and…
