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• What Mastercard's crypto plans signal for the future of digital payments
  Major payment companies have long looked on at cryptocurrencies as too risky to touch, but too tempting to ignore. Mastercard's latest move signals that the card brands are ready to make a firm pitch for crypto spending.
• Political squabbling jeopardizes the digital dollar, and the economy
  Paralysis between Republicans and Democrats hurts the people who would benefit the most from digital delivery of government stimulus funds, argues Polyient Labs' Jeff Hinkle.
• Gas EMV can't be just about chip cards
  The complexity of the migration is an opportunity to examine other elements of the payment experience, says TNS' Brian DuCharme.
• Stripe hires high-profile execs, but insists it’s not planning an IPO
  Stripe is expanding its digital payment technology into new industries, and is also welcoming a series of notable executives with backgrounds that are mostly outside merchant technology. But they also have experience with much larger companies, a necessary skill as Stripe tries to grow out of its status as fintech upstart.
• Nacha's Phixius platform test adds Visa as partner
  ACH network steward Nacha says Visa has been added to its list of partners for a payment information exchange it is creating to help credentialed service providers share and manage electronic payments information for faster and more secure processing.