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RTP Settlement Live, South Korea's Stablecoin Law & India's M&A Wave
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Real-time payment networks have made batch settlement obsolete — and that's just the start of today's fintech and banking news. South Korea races toward a unified stablecoin framework, India's fintech market pivots to M&A, and agentic AI is posting real ROI numbers in credit and due diligence.
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The three-to-five day settlement window is functionally dead. Real-time payment networks are now processing merchant payouts in under sixty seconds, around the clock, every day of the year.
Across to Asia, South Korea's Financial Services Commission is moving to consolidate ten separate pending digital asset bills into a single unified framework. The target is a stablecoin rulebook presented to the National Assembly this week, with full framework delivery by end of twenty twenty-six.
In India, the fintech market is moving from fundraising to consolidation. Lending unicorn Moneyview received SEBI approval for a fifteen hundred crore rupee IPO.
Two funding rounds this week are worth reading together. Encore AI raised thirty million dollars, backed by Team Eight and Planven, to deploy customer-interaction AI agents in financial services.
InvestiFi secured twenty million dollars in funding, described as the largest fintech raise specifically targeting embedded investing for US credit unions and community banks. The driver is straightforward.
Digital Prime Technologies launched Tokenet this week, an institutional digital asset lending platform with over one billion dollars in inventory from day one, backed by a partnership with EquiLend. That partnership is the key detail.
The thread connecting all of this is speed as a competitive baseline. Sub-sixty-second payouts.
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