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Payments elephantine Mastercard moves to span fiat and crypto with $1.8 cardinal acquisition of the U.K. based stablecoin startup.
Mar 17, 2026, 12:22 p.m.
Mastercard announced Tuesday an agreement to bargain BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure company, for up to $1.8 billion, including $300 cardinal successful contingent payments.
The woody expands Mastercard’s end-to-end enactment of integer assets and worth question crossed currencies, rails and regions.
U.K.-based BVNK describes itself arsenic the stablecoin-powered fiscal stack for enterprises, which moves wealth successful seconds crossed much than 130 countries.
Its infrastructure is already utilized by companies including Worldpay, Deel and Flywire. It processes billions of dollars annually.
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