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Mortgage Underwriters Get an AI Agent Assist

Mortgage Underwriters Get an AI Agent Assist
Mortgage Underwriters Get an AI Agent Assist
May 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A mortgage application used to mean waiting. At TD Bank, pre-adjudication averaged roughly 15 hours before a human underwriter could open the file. That window...

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Banks Risk Missing the Subprime Consumer Comeback Story
Banks Risk Missing the Subprime Consumer Comeback Story
May 22, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

Subprime consumers are navigating the credit markets through a mix of installments, informal borrowing and carefully managed payment behavior that traditional scoring models do not...

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79% of Firms Now Verify Identity at Login
79% of Firms Now Verify Identity at Login
May 22, 2026  |  Digital Identity

Agentic artificial intelligence may soon test the weakest point in a company’s identity system, but PYMNTS Intelligence data suggest the strongest defense may be a...

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Main Street Merchants Run More of Their Business by Phone
Main Street Merchants Run More of Their Business by Phone
May 22, 2026  |  SMBs

Retail has evolved from a brick-and-mortar storefront to an anywhere, anytime experience. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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House Hearing Puts AI Fraud at Center of AML Overhaul
House Hearing Puts AI Fraud at Center of AML Overhaul
May 21, 2026  |  AML

Criminals are not waiting for regulators to modernize anti-money laundering rules, and that asymmetry shaped a House hearing that exposed a larger divide than where...

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Brussels Wants Crypto Control. Washington Wants Momentum
Brussels Wants Crypto Control. Washington Wants Momentum
May 21, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The EU’s landmark crypto framework is entering its first recalibration phase, barely two years after implementation began. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Walmart’s Secret Weapon Is the Boring Old Store
Walmart’s Secret Weapon Is the Boring Old Store
May 21, 2026  |  Walmart

Retail scale still matters. But Walmart’s first quarter of fiscal year 2027 made clear the company’s next phase of growth runs through something harder to...

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The Next AI Boom Is Worker Training
The Next AI Boom Is Worker Training
May 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

When graduating seniors at the University of Arizona roundly booed a former Google CEO every time he mentioned artificial intelligence, the jeers annoyed the billionaire...

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