Visa and Mastercard face pressure to lower payment charges globally, while the London-based fintech receives more fraud reports than the country's largest banks.

The Visa Tokenized Asset Platform will allow banks to "mint, burn and transfer" tokens as more financial institutions and businesses express interest in how cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology can improve their operations.

In September's roundup of top tech news: Banks and credit unions continue to shift away from banking as a service, Donald Trump announces planned launch of World Liberty Financial cryptocurrency firm and more.

Top banking trades have thrown their support behind the central bank's argument that it has discretion over access to its payments systems. Custodia is seeking to appeal a lower court ruling that affirmed that discretion.

Liberty Capital Bancshares in Texas agreed to acquire in-state peer Southwestern Bancorp; BNY announced it will buy managed-account software company Archer; Louisiana is supporting crypto but pushing back on CBDCs; and more in this week's banking news roundup.

A hearing included discussion of European laws that will put banks on the hook for fraud schemes, and whether the U.S. needs a digital identity standard.

A huge amount of money has flowed into the election from cryptocurrency interests, setting up a different financial policy scene, including for bankers, next year.

As Silvergate Capital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, an executive said the company's crypto-friendly bank went down last year because regulators soured on its business model.

Regulators in two countries are strengthening rules requiring banks and merchants to accept paper, while a majority of Canadian payments are now tap to pay.

The comments came during a two-hour chat on X Spaces in which Trump and his sons offered a decentralized finance company as an answer for the de-banked.