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Mastercard Bets Shoppers Will Trust AI Agents One Purchase at a Time
Mastercard Bets Shoppers Will Trust AI Agents One Purchase at a Time
October 08, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Pablo Fourez Consumers won’t hand artificial intelligence agents unrestricted purchasing authority on day one, but repeated successful transactions...

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B2B Payments Already Have the Controls AI Agents Need
B2B Payments Already Have the Controls AI Agents Need
October 08, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Watch more: How Payments Turn AI Into Action Every swipe, ACH transfer or virtual card transaction carries clues about who is spending, where money is moving,...

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Higher Prices Are Splitting Consumers Into Three Camps
Higher Prices Are Splitting Consumers Into Three Camps
October 08, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Americans facing higher bills are taking three different approaches to their paychecks, and the largest group is still holding spending steady or increasing it. That...

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Scams Move From the Inbox to the Text Screen
Scams Move From the Inbox to the Text Screen
October 08, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

A bank can monitor a login, score a transaction and flag unusual account activity. It can’t see the text message that convinced its customer to...

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OFAC Warns Sanctions Risk Can Hide Deep in the Payment Chain
OFAC Warns Sanctions Risk Can Hide Deep in the Payment Chain
October 07, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

The next sanctions shock for a multinational may not arrive as the name of a supplier appearing on a government blacklist. It could arrive as...

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Consumers Get Choosier About Credit
Consumers Get Choosier About Credit
October 07, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

Consumer credit is still growing, but consumers eased off the form of borrowing they can adjust most readily from month to month. Federal Reserve data...

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AI Agents Turn Permission Into Payments’ New Control Point
AI Agents Turn Permission Into Payments’ New Control Point
October 07, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Agentic commerce is creating a new transaction type before the payments industry has fully created the rules for accepting it. While payment stacks have become...

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SoFi Tech Solutions Says Consumer Caution Makes Technology Investment More Urgent
SoFi Tech Solutions Says Consumer Caution Makes Technology Investment More Urgent
October 07, 2026  |  Consumer Payments

Watch more: Need to Know With Max Spivakovsky of SoFi Tech Solutions A consumer does not have to stop spending to become more careful about...

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Congress Wants to Unplug the Scam Call Factory
Congress Wants to Unplug the Scam Call Factory
October 07, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

A pair of representatives last week unveiled legislation targeting one piece of the increasingly industrialized fraud economy. Reps. Jefferson Shreve of Indiana and Rob Menendez...

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