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• PYMNTS | Dick’s Still Bets on Sneakers Despite Foot Locker Stumbles (pymnts.com)
  Dick’s Sporting Goods is forecasting a slowdown in its footwear business amid changing consumer preferences.
• PYMNTS | Alabama Probe Opens Regulatory Front Over Containing AI Mode… (pymnts.com)
  Regulators are beginning to examine whether the companies building the most powerful AI systems keep them under control.
• PYMNTS | Google Cloud Debuts Specialized AI Agents for Banks (pymnts.com)
  Google Cloud has launched AI tools designed specifically for the financial services industry and the legal industry.
• PYMNTS | Visa and Bluefin Put Payment Security Inside the Acceptance … (pymnts.com)
  Visa has launched a card-present acceptance partnership with payment and data security infrastructure firm Bluefin.
• PYMNTS | FGV Announces $35 Million Fund For AI-FinTech Startups (pymnts.com)
  The fund invests in early-state startups at the intersections of FinTech, financial access and artificial intelligence, the company said.
• PYMNTS | Meta’s Consumer-Focused AI Agent Could Be Weeks From Launch (pymnts.com)
  Meta is reportedly ready to unveil its consumer-focused AI agent, known in-house as “Hatch,” in the next several weeks.
• PYMNTS | Banks Turn Real-Time Payment Rails Into Customer Products (pymnts.com)
  Jim Colassano of The Clearing House says the next phase of real-time payments requires products that lead to useful customer experiences.
• PYMNTS | Cash Flow Forecasting Faces the Business Growth Test (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds that cash flow forecasting is the top finance challenge as middle market companies manage rising complexity.
• PYMNTS | Consumers Make Budgets Work by Doing More Than Cutting Back (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds that households combining select budgeting strategies report better outcomes than those that only cut spending.
• PYMNTS | EBANX: Payments’ Next Rival May Not Be a Payments Company (pymnts.com)
  EBANX CEO João Del Valle discusses why AI could make customer relationships more valuable than easy-to-copy technology.
• PYMNTS | Bank of England Welcomes Plan to Drive Payments Innovation (pymnts.com)
  The British Treasury plans to give the Bank of England a “secondary objective” to support payments innovation and digital currencies.
• PYMNTS | FIFA World Cup Adds $3.5 Billion to NY and NJ Economies (pymnts.com)
  The FIFA World Cup 2026 generated $3.5 billion in total economic impact across New York and New Jersey, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said.
• PYMNTS | Nvidia Says AI Agents Are Draining Its Chip Supply (pymnts.com)
  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI is already doing productive, profitable work, not chasing some future intelligence milestone.
• PYMNTS | Google Shifts AI Safety Unit Out of DeepMind Lab to Global A… (pymnts.com)
  Google DeepMind, is the company’s research lab developing frontier AI models, while global affairs oversees lobbying and public policy.
• PYMNTS | Instinct Nears $2.5 Billion Valuation to Take Over Daily Cho… (pymnts.com)
  Instinct, AI-powered assistant that seems to be gaining traction among early adopters, is raising a $250 million Series B round.
• PYMNTS | Anthropic Escalates Cloud Spending With $45B Nscale Agreement (pymnts.com)
  Anthropic will pay $45 billion to rent computing power from neocloud company Nscale’s West Virginia data center, set to open in late 2027.
• PYMNTS | Open Finance Exposes the Limits of the Primary Account (pymnts.com)
  Open finance connections are beginning to close the information gap between accounts and customers' finances.
• CPI | Kimberly-Clark Seeks EU Antitrust Approval for Kenvue Takeover (pymnts.com)
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. has formally sought EU antitrust clearance for its planned acquisition of Kenvue Inc., putting another major...
• PYMNTS | CISA Shares Federal Cyber Guidance With Critical Infrastruct… (pymnts.com)
  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a guide to network monitoring for federal agencies.
• PYMNTS | 39 State Bankers Groups Join to Build Blockchain Network (pymnts.com)
  Thirty-nine state bankers associations have formed an organization to create an industry-owned blockchain network.
• PYMNTS | Apple to Debut Foldable iPhone as New CEO Takes Reins (pymnts.com)
  Apple will hold its biggest product rollout of the year next week as it welcomes a new CEO, company hardware chief John Ternus.
• PYMNTS | TransUnion Overhauls Credit Scoring System for UK Consumers (pymnts.com)
  TransUnion says it is modernizing the way it calculates U.K. consumers’ credit scores to help them better understand borrowing options.
• PYMNTS | Paysafe Teams With FastSpring on Merchant of Record Solution (pymnts.com)
  Payments platform Paysafe said it has launched a partnership with Merchant of Record service provider FastSpring.
• CPI | UK Competition Watchdog Opens Formal Review of Brink’s $6.6 Bil… (pymnts.com)
  Britain’s competition regulator has formally opened an investigation into Brink’s acquisition of ATM services provider NCR Atleos.
• CPI | Meta Reaches $16.68 Billion Deal With US States Over Social-Med… (pymnts.com)
  Meta Platforms will pay $16.68 billion and impose new restrictions on younger users under a settlement with U.S. states.
• CPI | Trump Weighs Beef Deregulation Amid Meatpacking Antitrust Scrut… (pymnts.com)
  Trump said he was receptive to reconsidering rules governing beef processing, injecting a regulatory angle into competition in the industry.
• PYMNTS | SeatGeek Lets Ticket Buyers Find Events With Conversational … (pymnts.com)
  Ticketing platform SeatGeek has added a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) search feature to its marketplace.
• PYMNTS | Vanguard Acquires Altruist to Expand Advisor Reach With Tech (pymnts.com)
  Investment management company Vanguard plans to acquire wealth technology and custody platform Altruist, the companies said.
• CPI | Teva Faces New Antitrust Scrutiny in Turkey Over Copaxone Paten… (pymnts.com)
  Turkish regulators are examining whether the drugmaker used patent tactics and claims about competing medicines to impede competition.
• CPI | Coupang Sues Korean Antitrust Regulator Over Surprise Inspection (pymnts.com)
  Coupang has taken South Korea’s antitrust regulator to court after refusing to allow investigators to conduct an on-site inspection.
• PYMNTS | Private Credit Is Turning Corporate Treasurers Into Data Ven… (pymnts.com)
  As private credit becomes a larger source of corporate capital, lenders can negotiate for access to detailed operating information.
• PYMNTS | Amex and Bread Kick Off NFL-Themed Card Rewards Program (pymnts.com)
  The NFL Extra Points Credit Card program gives cardholders access to American Express (Amex) benefits, offers, experiences and protections
• PYMNTS | Robot Delivery Is Booming and Cities Want Their Cut (pymnts.com)
  A robot delivering food in one city obeys a different rulebook depending on where it operates, from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee.
• PYMNTS | Dallas Fed: Tokenized Deposits Could Trigger Bank Rate Wars (pymnts.com)
  Depositors could move their funds to pursue higher interest rates, two Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas economists wrote.
• PYMNTS | Consumers Gain Spending Power but Pull Back on Purchases (pymnts.com)
  Inflation remained elevated in July, but household income grew faster than prices and spending, giving consumers some more purchasing power.
• PYMNTS | Kohl's Sales Dip As Consumers Prioritize Essentials (pymnts.com)
  The department store chain reported quarterly earnings Wednesday (Aug. 26) showing a 0.9% decrease in both net and comparable sales.
• PYMNTS | DeepSeek Looks to Raise $7 Billion as Revenues Jump Tenfold (pymnts.com)
  Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is in talks with investors about a funding round that aims to raise 50 billion yuan (about $7.4 billion).
• PYMNTS | Crypto Group Opposes KYC on Stablecoin Wallet Transfers (pymnts.com)
  The Blockchain Association is urging regulators to preserve a boundary between regulated stablecoin issuers and decentralized networks.
• PYMNTS | CFOs Shrink Dashboards With Self-Reconciling B2B Payments (pymnts.com)
  The next big advance in B2B payments is making every payment explain itself. Reconciliation is shifting into payment infrastructure itself.
• PYMNTS | Alibaba Targets Coding and Office Tasks With Low-Cost AI Mod… (pymnts.com)
  Alibaba introduced Qwen3.8-Flash, a new AI model designed to deliver cost efficiency. The production version will be available soon.
• PYMNTS | Revolut Debuts Euro-Pegged Stablecoin in 3 Countries (pymnts.com)
  U.K. FinTech Revolut is launching a European stablecoin as the digital tokens move further into mainstream finance.
• PYMNTS | Priority Commerce Moves Into Public Sector: IntelliPay Acqui… (pymnts.com)
  Priority Technology Holdings will acquire government/utility payment processing company IntelliPay and extend into the public sector.
• PYMNTS | Splitit CEO Says Payments Firms Must Build for AI, Not Just … (pymnts.com)
  Splitit CEO Nandan Sheth says the companies that win the next phase of payments will be those that look beyond AI-driven productivity.
• PYMNTS | 62% of Financially Improving Households Have a Savings Cushi… (pymnts.com)
  Building on today’s Conference Board numbers, PYMNTS finds its own Consumer Expectations Index can match it for complexity.
• PYMNTS | Targeted Rewards Could Close Credit Unions’ 21-Point Wallet … (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds that travel, dining and retail rewards could help turn credit union cards to top-of-wallet status.
• PYMNTS | Oumi Want Every Enterprise to Build Its Own AI Brain (pymnts.com)
  Manos Koukoumidis, Oumi’s CEO, says its new Compounding AI Factory automates the build of custom, specialized models for enterprises.
• PYMNTS | Banks Adopt AI, Stablecoins Faster Than Compliance Can Keep … (pymnts.com)
  Financial institutions are adopting AI and stablecoins faster than some control structures can accommodate them.
• PYMNTS | NSA Leverages White House Directives to Gain Access to AI (pymnts.com)
  The NSA wants access to “all” AI models, NSA Deputy Director Tim Kosiba said. The NSA is carrying out White House directives on AI.
• PYMNTS | Affirm and Shopify Take Shop Pay Installments to Australia (pymnts.com)
  Australian shoppers can now select installment payments powered by Affirm when they click on Shopify’s Shop Pay button.
• PYMNTS | Universities Are Cloning Their Professors With AI (pymnts.com)
  Harvard Business School built AI avatars of seven professors, letting founders rehearse pitches and board meetings.