Payment Expert’s Fintech Unwrapped delivers the latest and developing news that has shaped the sector over the course of the week.
This week, Stripe announced 288 new products this week and within the long range of announcements, the company is doubling-down on its approach to make agentic commerce and payments as seamless as possible.
Also this week, Standard Chartered became the first bank to settle a BlackRock tokenised asset for OKX, Ant International launched a new agentic capability for agentic mobile payments, Sokin and Adyen announced a new cross-border payment platform, and a European startup is aiming to reduce integration friction with SoftPOS after its latest funding round.
Stripe expands its agentic capabilities
Among the 288 new products announced at Stripe Sessions on 29 April, the company announced a new agentic integration with Google.
Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite will support businesses to sell on the Google Gemini app by connecting product catalogues, managing AI-driven checkouts, and processing payments. Stripe launched the suite in December 2025.
The company also announced it will link over 250 million consumer wallets to AI agents to allow them to perform payments on their behalf, protecting payment details by never revealing them to the agent.
Will Gaybrick, President of Product and Business at Stripe, said: “If AI can solve Nobel level physics problems but can’t buy a domain, something’s gone wrong. Our mantra: empower agents. We’re excited for all the growth opportunities this will unlock for businesses.”
Stripe Treasury also received an expansion to support business accounts with up to 15 currencies. Stripe business account users can also access treasury services within ChatGPT, earn rewards on fiat and stablecoin balances, and 2% cashback on card payments.
Standard Chartered settles tokenised asset for OKX
Standard Chartered has built a joint framework with BlackRock and OKX to integrate BlackRock’s BUIDL tokenised treasury fund into collateral workflows.
This will enable OKX clients to hold collateral in regulated, off exchange custody while trading on the same integrated venue. It also marks the first time a bank such as Standard Chartered has acted as a custodian for this arrangement.
OKX VIP and institutional clients can post BUIDL as collateral held off-exchange in regulated custody at Standard Chartered, while trading on OKX Middle East, aiming to remove the need to move assets between venues.
Margaret Harwood-Jones, Global Head of Financing and Securities Services at Standard Chartered, said: “This framework demonstrates how traditional financial institutions and digital market infrastructure can work together to bring tokenised assets safely and efficiently to global investors.
“By providing secure custody of BUIDL for this collateral use case, we are helping to ensure clients can access digital asset opportunities with the high standards of protection and compliance.”
Ant International launches new protocol for mobile agentic payments
Ant International confirmed on 28 April it launched an agentic mobile protocol to enable agentic payments on mobile devices.
The agentic protocol supports payments made with digital wallets, banking apps and super apps, to support businesses who begin integrating with agentic commerce services, such as Stripe and Google, to support mobile payments.
The protocol allows merchants and digital wallets to embed agentic payment functionality directly into their workflows, removing the need for system overhauls. Ant International stated it ensures that AI agents can transact securely and seamlessly across any global platform.
Jiang-Ming Yang, Chief Innovation Officer, Ant International, said: “We are deeply grateful for partners, acquirers and developers who contributed to this project.
“An agentic protocol for mobile commerce that ensures superior efficiency and security results will be key for businesses large and small expanding into the world’s fastest growing markets.”
Sokin partners with Adyen for consolidated approach to cross-border
Cross-border payment company Sokin partnered with Adyen on 29 April to allow businesses in select markets to perform payments in more than 35 payment methods in over 170 countries.
The partnership, which is live in the US and will support Sokin clients in the UK, Canada, mainland Europe, United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Australia, will also provide a multi-currency account for companies to support treasury management and foreign exchange.
Sokin and Adyen are aiming to remove payment acceptance friction and FX costs by unifying the cross-border payment process via a single platform.
Vroon Modgill, Founder and CEO of Sokin, said: “Businesses growing internationally have always had to stitch together multiple providers just to manage the basics of getting paid and paying out. This partnership closes that gap. One platform, one relationship, one view of your entire cross-border stack. That matters more than ever as AI becomes part of how finance teams actually work.”
Tapaya’s SoftPOS push backed with fresh funding
Czech Republic-based payment infrastructure startup Tapaya raised €1m ($1.17m) in a pre-seeded funding round to build on its SoftPOS services.
The funding round was led by Passion Capital, with participation from Depo Ventures and BADideas.fund.
Tapaya seeks to find solutions to the lack of infrastructure supported to financial institutions across Europe for new payment methods by abstracting compliance, certification, and processor integrations into a single software layer.
The company stated this enables developers to integrate payment acceptance across Android, iOS, and other commercial devices, including tablets, kiosks, and enterprise systems, turning standard commercial devices into a payment terminal and effectively removing the need for dedicated terminals.
Laura Ďorďová, Co-Founder and CEO of Tapaya, said: “We want accepting payments to be as simple as turning on a light. For decades, it has meant relying on a piece of hardware, buying it, carrying it, connecting it, and reconciling it separately. Merchants are tired of that complexity.
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