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• CPI | France Fines Boohoo €2.3 Million as Scrutiny of Fast-Fashion Pr… (pymnts.com)
  France imposed a €2.3 million penalty on British fast fashion retailer Boohoo over allegedly misleading discounts and product descriptions.
• CPI | California AG Seeks Structural Fixes in Paramount-Warner Antitr… (pymnts.com)
  Any settlement of the antitrust challenge to Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. needs to include structural changes to the transaction.
• PYMNTS | Google Intros AI Tools for Business Search Campaigns (pymnts.com)
  Google is unveiling artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to help businesses scale their search campaigns.
• CPI | Australia Targets Big Tech With New Levy to Fund Local News (pymnts.com)
  Australia is increasing regulatory pressure on technology platforms, pushing companies into commercial agreements with news publishers.
• PYMNTS | Trucking Sector Faces Safety Reckoning After SCOTUS Ruling (pymnts.com)
  The ruling opens freight brokers to lawsuits if a driver for a contracted carrier is involved in an accident.
• PYMNTS | Retailers Report AI-Driven Sales, Bigger Baskets in Q2 Earni… (pymnts.com)
  Walmart, Amazon and Target all reported AI shopping assistants driving bigger orders this earnings season.
• PYMNTS | AWS Launches $500 Million Effort for Student Cloud Builders (pymnts.com)
  Amazon has launched an education program for college students centered around AWS, its cloud computing business.
• PYMNTS | Kroger Expands Fold Bitcoin Gift Card Offering After Pilot (pymnts.com)
  Retail and supermarket chain Kroger expanded its Fold Bitcoin Gift Card offering after completing a successful seasonal pilot.
• PYMNTS | OpenAI and Anthropic Fuel California's Investment Surge (pymnts.com)
  California is reportedly seeing an historic wave of investment due to Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
• PYMNTS | Tariff Refunds Turn Old B2B Invoices Into Claims on Cash (pymnts.com)
  Tariff refunds are already moving back to importers, and B2B customers may need transaction-level proof of exactly who paid what cost.
• PYMNTS | New York Moves BNPL Regulation Closer to Implementation (pymnts.com)
  A new law could subject FinTech companies, bank partnerships and secondary-market purchasers to licensing, disclosures and more.
• PYMNTS | Walmart Sees Grocery Growth as Shoppers Prioritize Affordabi… (pymnts.com)
  Walmart’s affordability push is showing up in what shoppers are buying, with transactions and unit volumes rising.
• PYMNTS | Ant International Recruits Banking Giants for Updated AI Mod… (pymnts.com)
  Ant International says several of the world’s biggest banks are using its new AI model, which aims to provide more accurate FX forecasting.
• PYMNTS | Anthropic, OpenAI Split as Massachusetts Pushes AI Safety Ru… (pymnts.com)
  Anthropic and OpenAI are reportedly divided on a Massachusetts proposal that would establish a process to evaluate the safety of AI models.
• PYMNTS | Velera Arms Credit Unions Against Consumer-Engaged Fraud (pymnts.com)
  Credit union service organization Velera has released a resource designed to help credit unions navigate consumer-engaged fraud cases.
• PYMNTS | Binance Debuts Agent OS to Link AI Apps, Finance Infrastruct… (pymnts.com)
  Binance introduced a way to connect artificial intelligence applications to its digital asset capabilities.
• PYMNTS | X Weighs Paying Influencers and Creators in Stablecoins (pymnts.com)
  Social media platform X is reportedly exploring the use of stablecoins to pay commissions to influencers who post content.
• PYMNTS | Experian Lets UK Consumers Check Credit Through ChatGPT (pymnts.com)
  Experian says its U.K. customers can now access their credit scores within OpenAI's ChatGPT, giving them more insight into their finances.
• PYMNTS | Treasury Teams Are Turning ERP Investments Into Better Decis… (pymnts.com)
  Bank of America’s Matthew Miller shares why the firms capturing the most value also redesign payment flows, data and operating processes.
• PYMNTS | Enterprise AI Finds Its Firmest Footing in Security and Trea… (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds AI deployment is scaling in business functions with structured data, clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• PYMNTS | 45% Rise in Mobile Price Checks Shows Changes in Shopping (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds consumers use mobile browsers to make faster, more confident shopping choices instead of just chasing discounts.
• PYMNTS | BNPL Finds an Audience Among Super-Prime Shoppers (pymnts.com)
  The consumers most deeply engaged with BNPL also show the strongest appetite for extending it beyond short, interest-free installments.
• PYMNTS | Autonomy’s New CEO Is Going After the Drivers Leases Don’t F… (pymnts.com)
  Autonomy CEO Fred Weick says letting a customer swap a car when their life changes is the way to win the vehicle subscription market.
• PYMNTS | Real-Time Payments Give Banks an Account Retention Tool (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds that FIs are much more likely to report strong returns from instant B2B payments.
• PYMNTS | Fifth Third Backs Payload’s Embedded Payments Expansion (pymnts.com)
  Payload has secured a strategic investment led by Fifth Third to expand its embedded payments platform, Payload said in a press release.
• PYMNTS | Apple Cuts Vision Pro Roles to Focus on Smart Glasses Push (pymnts.com)
  About 100 positions are being eliminated from the Vision Pro organization, and another 100 are being cut from the Siri and software teams.
• PYMNTS | Nscale Targets $3 Billion IPO as AI Data Center Demand Soars (pymnts.com)
  Nscale, a developer of AI data centers, aims to raise as much as $3 billion in an IPO that could take place as soon as September.
• PYMNTS | Standard Chartered, HSBC Transact on Swift Blockchain (pymnts.com)
  Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first interbank transaction executed on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger.
• PYMNTS | Apollo Global Hit by Social Engineering Attack and Data Brea… (pymnts.com)
  Apollo Global Management disclosed Friday (Aug. 21) that it suffered a social engineering attack that led to a data breach.
• PYMNTS | Issuer Processors Expand Into Accounts and Money Movement (pymnts.com)
  Card-issuing platforms are widening their product sets as their customers get larger and their payments needs extend beyond cards.
• PYMNTS | Ex JPM COO Matt Zames to Advise Social Security Administrati… (pymnts.com)
  Former JPMorgan Chase Chief Operating Officer Matt Zames reportedly will become an advisor to the Social Security Administration.
• PYMNTS | Nvidia Pays $6 Billion to License AI Model-Development Softw… (pymnts.com)
  Nvidia reportedly will pay $6 billion to license Poolside’s AI model-development software, and will offer jobs to its employees.
• PYMNTS | This Week in Stablecoins: Crypto That Doesn’t Touch the Cust… (pymnts.com)
  Stablecoins are being inserted into payment flows without necessarily requiring the payer or recipient to behave like a crypto user.
• PYMNTS | Backlash Forces Big Tech to Rewrite Data Center Playbook (pymnts.com)
  Grassroots resistance to AI data centers is forcing officials to confront who pays for AI’s enormous demands on public infrastructure.
• PYMNTS | CFTC Roundtable Exposes Rift Over Prediction-Market Risks (pymnts.com)
  Prediction-market executives clashed Thursday (Aug. 20) over how regulators should police manipulation and insider trading.
• PYMNTS | How Treasury Can Unlock Working Capital Using Instant Paymen… (pymnts.com)
  The real treasury advantage of real-time payments is eliminating the days of settlement padding buried inside payment operations.
• PYMNTS | Credit Union Chatbot Adoption Jumps From 3% to 46% (pymnts.com)
  Small businesses are showing strong demand for AI-powered financial tools, but they want help managing money before handing over control.
• PYMNTS | 83% of Financial Firms Rate ID Systems Highly Despite Fricti… (pymnts.com)
  Confidence remains strong across financial services, while advanced platforms show firms can reduce friction without weakening controls.
• PYMNTS | Household Finances Slip as Consumer Confidence Holds (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds household finances worsening as consumer confidence holds and more households face unexpected expenses.
• PYMNTS | Private Equity Begins Placing AI Experts in Portfolio Compan… (pymnts.com)
  Private equity firms have reportedly begun placing AI experts within their portfolio companies to grow those businesses.
• PYMNTS | Crypto Card Spending Jumps Threefold in a Year, Data Shows (pymnts.com)
  Cryptocurrency card spending has more than tripled in the last year amid increased retail purchasing, to $1.04 billion in July.
• PYMNTS | Walmart Aims to Take On Amazon With Trendier Apparel (pymnts.com)
  Walmart is rolling out a new line of clothing to court younger consumers. The retailer’s Scenario brand is set to debut this week.
• PYMNTS | OpenAI Exec Tells People to Expect AI-Driven Cyberattacks (pymnts.com)
  One of OpenAI’s executives, Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane, says people should prepare for routine AI-related cyberattacks.
• PYMNTS | Helcim Raises $38 Million to Fill Small Business Banking Void (pymnts.com)
  Helcim, a payments company focused on SMBs, has raised $38 million as Canada’s banks are selling or outsourcing merchant services.
• PYMNTS | Apollo Economist Says AI Affecting Wages More Than Employment (pymnts.com)
  AI is affecting the labor market through weaker wage growth rather than overall employment, Apollo Global Management reports.
• CPI | Butterball Moves to End Turkey Antitrust Litigation With $34M P… (pymnts.com)
  Butterball has agreed to pay $34 million to settle claims that it participated in a scheme to manipulate US turkey prices, a deal that...
• CPI | Uber’s California Racketeering Case Against Lawyers, Doctors Mo… (pymnts.com)
  Uber Technologies Inc. cleared an important early hurdle in a federal lawsuit accusing California personal-injury lawyers and medical...
• CPI | Epic Challenges Apple’s Compliance With Brazil App Store Antitr… (pymnts.com)
  Epic Games is pressing Brazilian antitrust regulators to scrutinize Apple’s implementation of a recent App Store settlement...
• CPI | EU Ends Pratt & Whitney Canada Antitrust Probe After Contr… (pymnts.com)
  EU regulators have closed an antitrust investigation into Pratt & Whitney Canada after the RTX Corp. unit revised contractual terms that...
• CPI | Paramount, California to Meet Monday on Antitrust Settlement (pymnts.com)
  Paramount Skydance and California officials are preparing to discuss a potential settlement of the antitrust challenge holding up the...