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From 5-tonne stones to 4-digit PINs: payments have come a long way. Which story surprised you most? Capitalist

Your payout batch didn't fail. It partly failed – that's worse. At scale, payouts usually break in three places: • Batch blindness: one status for thousands of payments • Partial failures: you find out when the recipient complains • Reconciliation lag: manual matching, every cycle

A 2% exception rate means 20 investigations per every 1,000 payments.

At Capitalist, we've been working with mass payouts since 2014.

Our advice: when you choose a payout provider, ask how it handles failures, not just how fast it sends money.

Money20/20 week put stablecoins on the checkout counter, a bank put one on 3.3 million phones, and ChatGPT ads went global. 1. Mastercard launches Stablecoin Security Unveiled at Money20/20 USA, the new tool checks a stablecoin transaction for fraud and scam signals before the funds move. Borderless.xyz and Keyrails are the first partners. 2. Mesh and Visa: pay from your crypto balance Users can now pay with crypto and stablecoins at roughly 175 million Visa merchant locations. A virtual card is created in the background at checkout, so there's no need to sell assets first. 3. HSBC launches RedCoin on PayMe in Hong Kong HSBC's Hong Kong dollar stablecoin is rolling out inside the PayMe app. More than 3.3 million users will be able to activate a stablecoin wallet in the coming days. 4. Mercado Libre taps JP Morgan Payments for cross-border sales JP Morgan Payments will power the Global Selling programme, letting US businesses sell to buyers in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay. The embedded solution also handles bulk payments and settlement into US bank accounts. 5. ChatGPT ads expand to 26 new markets OpenAI is bringing ads to 26 more countries, including Nigeria, South Africa, Colombia and Pakistan, for a total of 89. More than 100,000 advertisers have now run ads there, up from 20,000 in August. 6. Google Ads adds a translation tool and holiday updates Google Ads is rolling out a Translation tool in the advertiser console to help reach global audiences. It is also expanding high value mode to Shopping campaigns and adding new retention goals ahead of the holidays. #digest

100+ countries. Multiple payment methods. One account. That's the size of Capitalist’s portfolio today.

Whether your partner is paid by card in one country, by bank transfer in another, or in crypto somewhere else, you can send it from the same place. International and local methods, SWIFT, SEPA and crypto, all in one account. Fewer tools to juggle. Faster payouts. More time to grow your business.

That’s what Capitalist was built for.

Eight currencies, eight words for "cents" From the sen that disappeared in 1953 to the Swiss coin with four names, small change has big stories. Which one did you not know? Capitalist

Your media buyer is paying for your campaigns from their own pocket 11 p.m. A test needs a new tool, right away. Approval takes two days, but the campaign launch window is two hours. So the buyer pays himself thinking "I'll expense it later." → receipt in a chat → a spreadsheet row with a missing column → "who approves this?" → three weeks of waiting That's an unofficial loan from your team to your company, with no interest and no thank-you. The cause isn't discipline. It's visibility. Finance can't see the spending, so every request starts from zero, and it takes time.

One card per person or campaign + one dashboard + clear limits = faster approvals and nobody paying out of pocket.

When did someone on your team last pay from their own card? Capitalist

Stablecoins grew up this week: the big card networks and Stripe all shipped products, and a gaming giant launched its own ad network. 1. Mastercard and BVNK launch Global Money Platform Mastercard rolled out its first major product since buying BVNK in August. Through a single API, banks, fintechs and businesses can embed accounts that hold both fiat and stablecoins, convert between them in real time, issue stablecoin-linked cards and send payouts to local bank accounts 1666. Card issuing covers 130+ countries, and the payout network is expected to expand to 40+ currencies in 2027. 2. Visa moves stablecoin payouts from pilot to production Visa Direct's stablecoin funding is now commercial, with payments provider Inyo Global as the first partner. Businesses can prefund cross-border payouts with USDC in near real time instead of waiting for traditional funding windows. 3. Stripe and Plasma build multi-currency stablecoin cards The new cards will let people spend from the currencies they already hold, cutting unnecessary conversions and FX costs. They will support USD, EUR, BRL, MXN and COP plus eligible stablecoins, available in 30+ countries now and 100+ planned for 2027. 4. Stablecoin payments hit $482 billion According to blockchain analytics firm Allium, stablecoin payment value rose 45% to $482 billion through September 30. The number of payments grew 71% to 1.04 billion, while total supply barely moved at $305 billion. 5. Miniclip launches AdSurge, a new mobile ad network Tencent-owned Miniclip launched AdSurge, a mobile advertising platform that covers both user acquisition and ad monetisation. It will start with games that earn most of their money from in-app ads, and the next phase will extend it to games monetised through in-app purchases and hybrid models. Miniclip says work began three years ago and that acquisitions like Easybrain gave it the scale to launch. AdSurge runs as a standalone company, and partner data is kept in strict isolation. #digest

Paid by your ad network? Pick Capitalist!

Capitalist is integrated with 40+ ad networks, including Adsterra, TrafficStars, RichAds and MGID. Select it as your payout method in the network dashboard, add your Capitalist details, and you're set.

Why it works: 😀Fast: funds land straight in one wallet, with no extra middlemen. 😀Reliable: on the market since 2014, with SWIFT, SEPA and crypto rails across 100+ countries. 😀Efficient: internal transfers between Capitalist accounts cost 0%. 😀Flexible: keep the balance, issue cards for ads, or withdraw to card, bank, USDT or e-wallet. Earn in the network. Spend it your way. Explore Capitalist.

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The week's clearest pattern: crypto infrastructure keeps pushing toward bank-grade legitimacy, while traditional banks are cutting human roles fast in favor of AI — right as AI also showed up on the attack side, in South Korea's bank breach. 1. GCash's parent company prices its $844M IPO Mynt, the parent of Philippine mobile wallet GCash, priced its IPO at 6.60 pesos per share, raising about $844 million in what will be one of the largest listings in Philippine history. The retail offer ran October 6–12, with shares set to start trading on October 20 under the ticker "GCASH". 2. South Korea: AI-powered hacking hits 7 banks Seven South Korean financial institutions, including Shinhan, Kookmin, and Hana, confirmed a data breach affecting around 2,200 customer records. Regulators suspect AI tools were used in the attack and are now pushing banks to build "AI vs. AI" defenses — the first time Korean authorities have publicly tied a bank breach to AI. 3. US: Stablecoin company Rain applies for its own bank charter Rain filed an application with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to create Rain National Trust Bank, a New York-based national trust bank that would let it directly custody digital assets and manage stablecoin reserves and issuance, instead of relying on third-party banks. Rain becomes the 12th crypto firm seeking this kind of charter this year, amid pushback from community banks. 4. UK: HSBC plans deep job cuts in wealth management, leans into AI HSBC is planning to cut around 70% of financial adviser roles and about half its managers and specialists in its UK wealth management division, as it shifts more client service work to AI. Affected employees are expected to leave by the end of October. 5. TOKEN2049 Singapore draws a record crowd, and major institutions The October 7–8 conference pulled in a record 25,000 attendees from 160 countries. The standout story was traditional finance heavyweights like BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, and Nasdaq showing up for serious conversations about institutional crypto infrastructure and tokenized real-world assets, not speculative hype. #digest

The $300 problem fixed by Capitalist One of our clients is a performance marketing agency with contractors spread across four countries.

Every month, their finance lead sent separate wires per country, then waited to confirm who actually got paid — losing almost a full day and up to $300 in hidden markups per payout cycle.

Here's how Capitalist fixed that.

Money shows up in the strangest places. Whatever way you're earning it — predictable or completely unconventional — you still need somewhere reliable to hold it, move it, and spend it. And that's where Capitalist comes in.

79% of people expect an international payment to land within an hour. Most banks still take 3-5 days. That gap is exactly where affiliate payouts live. A network pays a webmaster who's waiting on a wire — it clears in three days through two or three correspondent banks, while the campaign it was meant to fund has already ended. Capitalist closes that gap on both ends. Transfers between Capitalist accounts settle instantly, with zero fees. For payouts leaving the ecosystem, USDT funding settles in minutes, running alongside SWIFT and SEPA depending on what the recipient needs. Speed shouldn't be the exception you get lucky with. It should be the default. Explore Capitalist

This week felt less like Wall Street and more like the whole world catching up on mobile money, meme-stock-level IPOs, and ad platforms quietly swapping places at the top. Here's what actually moved the needle. 1. Meta Set to Overtake Google in Global Ad Revenue — For the First Time Ever Emarketer projects Meta will pull in $243 billion in global ad revenue in 2026, edging past Google's $239.5 billion. Together with Amazon, the three giants will account for 62.3% of all worldwide digital ad spend this year — a genuinely new power balance for anyone running campaigns. 2. Airtel Money Heads for an $8–9 Billion London IPO — Africa's Biggest Fintech Listing Yet Airtel Africa's mobile money arm — used by 53 million people across the continent for payments, bill pay, and cash withdrawals — is set to debut on the London Stock Exchange October 14, in what's being called the biggest London listing in five years. It would also be the first major African fintech to list on a global exchange. 3. Ghana's Mobile Money Hit $44 Billion in a Single Month GH¢518.8 billion moved through phone wallets in August — up 46.5% year-over-year, across 1 billion+ transactions and 85.8 million registered accounts. Banks and MTN are now racing to turn that everyday wallet activity (think market stalls and hair salons) into actual lending customers. 4. Nigerian Fintech Grey Expands Cross-Border Payouts to Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Rwanda The expansion lets users send money directly to bank accounts and mobile wallets across four new markets, right as Nigeria's central bank rolls out stricter data-localization and ownership-disclosure rules. A reminder that payout infrastructure and regulation are evolving on the same timeline, not separately. 5. Trustly Cuts Around 200 Jobs as Fintech Belt-Tightening Continues The Stockholm-based Pay by Bank provider is downsizing its global workforce amid ongoing losses — fintech joining tech's broader 2026 trend of leaner teams, even at well-funded, well-known companies. #digest

Capitalist is live at TOKEN2049 Singapore! 🇸🇬 Our own Irina and Jon are on the ground at Marina Bay Sands, October 7–8 — ready to talk payments, stablecoins, and where global finance is heading next. Find us at booth MB4-73 — come say hi, ask questions, or just talk shop about the future of money. See you on the floor!

Every transfer inside Capitalist is free — and that changes how payout chains actually work A network pays a webmaster, who pays a sub-affiliate, who pays a contractor. Normally, each hop costs something — a wire runs 2.5%, cards carry their own fee 1121. Multiply that across a chain, and those "small" fees add up fast. Inside Capitalist, transfers between accounts are instant and free, with no percentage and no delay. If everyone in that chain holds a Capitalist account, the money just moves — and none of those hops cost anything. That's margin finance teams stop losing on transfers that were never the point of the payout in the first place. Isn't that reason enough to explore Capitalist?

The rise and fall of Wirecard At some point, Wirecard, a European fintech company, was worth more than Deutsche Bank. Then auditors went looking for €1.9 billion — and it just wasn't there. Everyone saw the slick app, the global payment rails, the DAX 30 badge. Nobody outside the company could see what was actually backing it. Here's the full timeline, and the one question it leaves every payments business asking. …which Capitalist answers with transparency. 12+ years of real balances, real audit trails, real infrastructure behind every payout.

Stablecoins as a mass payouts instrument Mass payouts are quietly moving off bank rails and onto stablecoins — and the numbers show it's not a trend — it's a whole infrastructure. Here's why affiliate and partner payouts are leading that shift. Capitalist – leading in mass payouts since 2014