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Cross-border Payments
BNY Aims to Bring Cross-Border Bank Payments to Digital Wallets
September 28, 2026

BNY has debuted a solution that lets banks send cross-border payments to retail digital wallets. The Pay-to-Wallet capability combines the bank’s global payments capabilities to support cross-border bank-to-wallet payments across approved markets and corridors, BNY said in a Monday (Sept. 28) news release. “Digital wallets are becoming...

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Ebanx Aims to Expand Payment Access for LatAm Gamers
September 28, 2026

Ebanx has teamed with NetEase Games Club to expand payment access for Latin America’s video game community. “Latin America is one of the fastest-growing video game markets in the world, yet millions of its players have long faced barriers to purchasing content because of how...

Cross-border Payments
Swift Wants to Make X-Border Payments as Easy as Domestic Ones
September 28, 2026

Swift has launched an effort designed to make consumer cross-border payments as easy as domestic transactions. “Today, millions of consumers use systems such as Bizum, PayID from AP+, and Pix to send money quickly and easily within their own markets without needing to know the recipient’s...

Artificial Intelligence
Grok Puts the AI Assistant Between Consumers and Their Banks
September 28, 2026

Elon Musk wants xAI’s Grok chatbot to serve as users’ financial assistant. “Grok Bot now connects to your finances,” the artificial intelligence company wrote Saturday (Sept. 26) on X, another Musk company. “Link your bank, card, and investment accounts with the new Finance integration, then ask Bot to help manage...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic and OpenAI Scientists Urge Policymakers to Embed Auditors Inside AI Labs
September 28, 2026

Senior scientists from Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft are calling on policymakers to embed auditors in frontier artificial intelligence companies and set “concrete safety requirements” for continued development of the technology. Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jaku Pachocki and Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric...

B2B Payments
Fed Finds B2B Payments Went Digital, but the Paperwork Didn’t
September 28, 2026

In 2024, the B2B payments conversation centered on moving businesses away from checks and toward electronic transactions. Two years later, the industry has made infrastructure advances, but two newly published research briefs from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland highlight that the hardest part of...

Artificial Intelligence
Personal AI Agent Instinct Quadruples Valuation to $10 Billion in 1 Month
September 28, 2026

Instinct, the builder of a personal artificial intelligence agent for everyday life, quadrupled its valuation over the past month, lifting it to $10 billion. Instinct was valued at $10 billion as it raised $1 billion in Series C funding, the company said in a Monday...

Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Builds a Watchdog to Keep AI Agents in Bounds
September 28, 2026

Nvidia is moving the artificial intelligence kill switch deeper into the machinery, giving businesses a way to stop autonomous agents even when the software directing them fails to keep them within bounds. The company’s Open Agent Safety Platform, announced in a Monday (Sept. 28) press...

Artificial Intelligence
Meta Launches Platform Aimed at Attracting Enterprise Customers
September 28, 2026

Meta is following the launch of its Muse model with a new business concentrated on offering artificial intelligence tools to enterprise clients. “Meta Enterprise Platform will use our strengths that few other companies have: advanced models, leading agents, large-scale infrastructure, and years of working closely with...