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Swift Wants to Make X-Border Payments as Easy as Domestic Ones

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

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...

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

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...

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Citi and Coinbase Pair Stablecoin Payments With Fiat Settlement
Citi and Coinbase Pair Stablecoin Payments With Fiat Settlement
September 28, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Coinbase deepened its collaboration with Citi to enable businesses to convert incoming fiat into stablecoins and to accept stablecoin payments, Coinbase said in a Monday...

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

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...

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FIS Teams With Spade to Bring Clarity to Debit Transactions
FIS Teams With Spade to Bring Clarity to Debit Transactions
September 28, 2026  |  Partnerships

FIS says it has a new way to offer debit-issuing clients better merchant data. That’s possible due to a new integration marrying Spade’s real-time enrichment...

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

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...

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

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...

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Nvidia Says New Safety Platform Would Have Stopped Hugging Face Hack
Nvidia Says New Safety Platform Would Have Stopped Hugging Face Hack
September 28, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Nvidia debuted an open software platform and reference system designed for agentic artificial intelligence safety, according to a Monday (Sept. 28) news release. The Nvidia...

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