{"id":545599,"date":"2026-01-23T04:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/capital-one-bank-buys-stablecoin-fintech-brex-for-5-15b\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:52:50","slug":"capital-one-bank-buys-stablecoin-fintech-brex-for-5-15b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/capital-one-bank-buys-stablecoin-fintech-brex-for-5-15b\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital One bank buys stablecoin fintech Brex for $5.15B"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Capital<\/p>\n

Capital One\u2019s acquisition of Brex comes just months after the payment company launched support for stablecoins.<\/p>\n

Major US bank Capital One has struck a $5.15 billion deal to buy the fintech Brex and is set to acquire the company\u2019s stablecoin payments solution. <\/p>\n

Capital One said<\/a> on Thursday that the deal is a combination of stock and cash transaction and is expected to close in mid-2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince our founding, we set out to build a payments company at the frontier of the technology revolution,\u201d said Capital One\u2019s founder and CEO, Richard Fairbank. \u201cAcquiring Brex accelerates this journey, especially in the business payments marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Capital One\u2019s acquisition of Brex comes just months after the payment company launched support for stablecoins. Major US bank Capital One has struck a $5.15 billion deal to buy the fintech Brex and is set to acquire the company\u2019s stablecoin payments solution. Capital One said on Thursday that the deal is a combination of stock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-545599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}