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ICBA Sues OCC to Stop Alleged Fast-Track of Crypto Bank Charters

ICBA Sues OCC to Stop Alleged Fast-Track of Crypto Bank Charters
ICBA Sues OCC to Stop Alleged Fast-Track of Crypto Bank Charters
October 02, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

Independent Community Bankers of America sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, alleging that the regulator authorized cryptocurrency firms to enter the banking system without...

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BNY and Kraken Parent Payward Eye Global Financial Infrastructure Partnership
BNY and Kraken Parent Payward Eye Global Financial Infrastructure Partnership
October 02, 2026  |  Partnerships

BNY and Kraken parent company Payward are discussing a partnership that would span digital assets and financial market infrastructure, CoinDesk reported Friday (Oct. 2), citing unnamed sources. The agreement could include...

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Liberate’s AI Agents Take Over the Insurance Night Shift
Liberate’s AI Agents Take Over the Insurance Night Shift
October 02, 2026  |  Insurance

A policyholder calls her insurance agency to ask what she owes. An artificial intelligence (AI) agent answers, pulls the balance and logs the call in...

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OpenAI Hires Former White House Cyber Official as Regulators Probe AI Dangers
OpenAI Hires Former White House Cyber Official as Regulators Probe AI Dangers
October 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The former leader of artificial intelligence policy at the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director, Thomas Lind, joined OpenAI, The Information reported Friday...

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EMVCo Takes On Proof of Permission for AI Payments
EMVCo Takes On Proof of Permission for AI Payments
October 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence agents add information to a card payment that merchants, issuers and networks don’t routinely exchange today: what the consumer authorized the agent to...

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American Airlines Lets Loyalty Program Members Combine Cash and Miles
American Airlines Lets Loyalty Program Members Combine Cash and Miles
October 02, 2026  |  Travel Payments

American Airlines is going to let eligible members of its AAdvantage loyalty program combine cash and miles when booking flights on its website (aa.com) and...

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Stablecoins Hand Manufacturers a Working Capital Windfall, if CFOs Move
Stablecoins Hand Manufacturers a Working Capital Windfall, if CFOs Move
October 02, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Stablecoins are technically capable of eliminating one of global manufacturing’s oldest financial inefficiencies. The simple, persistent, and compounding friction of money that spends too much...

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AWS Launches AI Agent to Audit Customer Cloud Environments
AWS Launches AI Agent to Audit Customer Cloud Environments
October 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the public preview of an artificial intelligence-powered service that analyzes the user’s AWS cloud environment and recommends ways to...

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