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• PYMNTS | BIS Marks Successful Test of Cross-Border Blockchain Payments (pymnts.com)
  The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its partners have marked a new milestone in their “Project Agorá.”
• PYMNTS | Amazon Offers Alexa Shopping Assistant Blueprint to Retailers (pymnts.com)
  Amazon now enables retailers to tap into the tech from its AI shopping assistant to build their own conversational shopping experience.
• PYMNTS | SAS Debuts Credit Card for Scandinavia’s Small Businesses (pymnts.com)
  Scandinavian Airline Systems has launched a credit card for the region’s SMBs to bring together expense management and travel benefits.
• PYMNTS | Visa Expands Commercial Solutions Hub to Promote Virtual Car… (pymnts.com)
  Visa expanded its Commercial Solutions Hub (VCS Hub) to help issuers and suppliers scale virtual card programs.
• PYMNTS | SoFi Makes Stablecoin Available to Its 14.7 Million Members (pymnts.com)
  SoFi Technologies’ bank-issued, U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin SoFiUSD is now available for SoFi members to buy, sell, hold and convert.
• PYMNTS | Revolut’s AI Outperforms Humans at Detecting Financial Crime (pymnts.com)
  Revolut U.S. CEO Cetin Duransoy said AI now performs statistically better than human reviewers at flagging suspicious transactions.
• PYMNTS | Inference Firm Baseten Eyes Funding Round at $11B Valuation (pymnts.com)
  Artificial intelligence (AI) inference startup Baseten has reportedly been holding talks with investors to raise $1 billion.
• PYMNTS | B2B Procurement’s Future Belongs to Firms That See Risk First (pymnts.com)
  CFOs are finding out that procurement’s new intelligence infrastructure works best when firms own the strongest insight loops.
• PYMNTS | PayPal, Weixin Pay Facilitate Payments for US Visitors to Ch… (pymnts.com)
  U.S. PayPal users traveling in China will soon be able to complete payments at Weixin Pay merchants across China by scanning QR codes.
• PYMNTS | Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI Agents for Trades (pymnts.com)
  Robinhood said its customers can now turn some of their activity over to AI agents with the launch of its Agentic Trading.
• PYMNTS | Security Chief Warns of AI’s Outsized Threat to DeFi (pymnts.com)
  OpenZeppelin CEO Manuel Araoz says AI coding agents have put the decentralized finance (DeFi) space in danger.
• PYMNTS | Boost CEO Says Payments’ Real Legacy Problem Is Mindset (pymnts.com)
  Dean Leavitt of Boost Payment Solutions says the next generation of FinTech won’t destroy legacy systems but teach them to think smarter.
• PYMNTS | Younger Consumers Juggle More Ways to Pay the Bills (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence finds younger consumers stack ways to manage living costs, cutting spending, taking on work, and leaning on family.
• PYMNTS | The Clearing House: Payments Innovation Must Prove It Can Sc… (pymnts.com)
  The Clearing House’s Pat Antonacci tells PYMNTS that faster payments still need something old-fashioned in order to work: trust.
• PYMNTS | Paymentus Sees AI as a Force Multiplier for Incumbents (pymnts.com)
  AI may strengthen incumbents, according to Paymentus’ Garrett Baird. The catch? Incumbents will need to expose and orchestrate their data.
• PYMNTS | Anthropic Becomes World's Most Valuable AI Startup at $965 B… (pymnts.com)
  Anthropic raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $965 billion. It also launched Claude Opus 4.8.
• PYMNTS | Investors Can Now Trade Directly Inside AI Chatbots (pymnts.com)
  Live trades can now be placed directly inside ChatGPT and Claude, with no separate brokerage app required.
• PYMNTS | Suppliers Rewrite the B2B Playbook as AI Makes Buyers Smarter (pymnts.com)
  With AI-powered analysis, B2B suppliers can no longer assume that complexity, opacity or information asymmetry will protect them.
• PYMNTS | Inflation Hits Every Generation. But Not in the Same Place. (pymnts.com)
  While daily living pressure varies five points across generations, it spans 31 points within the baby boomer generation alone.
• PYMNTS | Amazon and Walmart Aren't Just Competing on Retail Anymore (pymnts.com)
  Amazon and Walmart spent the last week, a holiday shopping period, advancing strategies far removed from discretionary shopping trends.
• PYMNTS | CoreWeave Speeds AI Agent Rollout With Real-World Learning (pymnts.com)
  CoreWeave launched unified agentic AI capabilities that enable agents to learn and improve as they operate in the real world.
• PYMNTS | Fiserv Turns to Cognition to Modernize Banking Tech (pymnts.com)
  Payments and financial technology provider Fiserv is teaming with AI agent lab Cognition to modernize core banking technology.
• CPI | France Warns Crypto Firms of Blacklisting Risk Under EU Licensi… (pymnts.com)
  France warned cryptocurrency companies that they could face legal action if they fail to secure EU authorization by the end of June.
• CPI | Illinois Lawmakers Pass Bill Requiring Safety Disclosures on ‘F… (pymnts.com)
  The law requires AI companies to address “catastrophic risks” from their models and mandates third-party audits of safety issues.
• PYMNTS | TD Bank Says AI Is Cutting Mortgage Approvals to 3 Minutes (pymnts.com)
  The bank’s Q2 earnings call revealed AI is moving past the pilot phase with measurable gains in loan processing and fraud detection.
• CPI | CNN Sues Perplexity Over Alleged Copyright Infringement (pymnts.com)
  CNN has filed a lawsuit against AI search company Perplexity, accusing the startup of unlawfully using and distributing copyrighted content.
• CPI | Private Firms Recruit More DOJ Antitrust Lawyers Amid Continued… (pymnts.com)
  Private firms are continuing to recruit attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice as the agency experiences a wave of departures.
• CPI | Luxshare Fined by China Regulator Over Unreported Wingtech Asse… (pymnts.com)
  Luxshare Precision Industry has been fined 900,000 yuan by China’s antitrust regulator for an acquisition without the required clearance.
• CPI | Congress Begins Debate Over Tax Treatment of Digital Assets (pymnts.com)
  Lawmakers are weighing legislation to clarify how cryptocurrencies and other digital assets should be treated under the U.S. tax code.
• CPI | Italy Opens Competition Probe Into easyJet Over Online Baggage … (pymnts.com)
  Italian regulators are investigating easyJet over over claims that its online booking coerced passengers into paying additional fees.
• PYMNTS | Finix Offers Merchants Access to Visa’s Cybersource Gateway (pymnts.com)
  Payment processor Finix says it has launched a new integration with Visa’s Cybersource acceptance solution.
• PYMNTS | Gemini Adds Grok-Powered Research to Prediction Market (pymnts.com)
  Gemini has added an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “personalized intelligence center” to its prediction market platform.
• PYMNTS | Bilt Faces Questions From Sen. Warren Over System Errors (pymnts.com)
  “Bilt’s systems appear to have failed many customers attempting to make rent and mortgage payments,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren reportedly wrote.
• PYMNTS | Apple Bets on Devices Over Data Centers for AI Usage (pymnts.com)
  At its Worldwide Developers Conference next month, Apple is reportedly expected to stress its ability to run AI models on its devices.
• PYMNTS | Banxa, TON Foundation and Bluechip Map the Future of Stablec… (pymnts.com)
  Mapping the top 100 stablecoins and the next 20 new stablecoin launches
• PYMNTS | The AI Upgrade Cycle Is Reviving Best Buy’s Growth Story (pymnts.com)
  Best Buy beat Wall Street expectations across the board for its fiscal first-quarter 2027 earnings, with revenue reaching $8.94 billion.
• PYMNTS | Cutting Back Isn’t Working: Why Doing More Is the Only Strat… (pymnts.com)
  Consumers are adapting to rising costs, but data shows that cutting spending alone is not enough to stabilize household finances.
• PYMNTS | Klarna Teams With Arrive to Help Drivers Pay for Parking (pymnts.com)
  Flexible payments provider Klarna has launched a partnership with mobility platform Arrive for parking payments.
• PYMNTS | Meta Embedding Engineers With Customers to Push AI Adoption (pymnts.com)
  Meta wants to place engineers and product managers with its large corporate clients to promote adoption of Meta's AI tools and services.
• PYMNTS | BofA, U.S. Bank, Finastra Push Banks Past Patchwork Payments (pymnts.com)
  Payments modernization has become inseparable from client demands for 24/7 commerce, embedded finance and faster operational workflows.
• PYMNTS | ‘Crypto Dad’ Giancarlo Sees a Digital Dollar Built for Machi… (pymnts.com)
  J. Christopher Giancarlo of the Digital Dollar Project says AI agents would work better if they weren’t so limited by legacy payment rails.
• PYMNTS | Card Networks Use Trust and Identity to Build Agentic Commer… (pymnts.com)
  Visa’s Olaseni Alabede says existing commerce rails must be adapted to support a new class of AI-initiated transactions.
• PYMNTS | AI Forces Credit Unions to Rethink, Not Replace, Old Tech (pymnts.com)
  Credit unions are under pressure to modernize payments infrastructure without undermining the trust that legacy systems still provide.
• PYMNTS | Karen Webster on Google Wallet’s latest play and why AI won'… (pymnts.com)
  Wall Street loves Google's AI commerce play. Karen Webster on why five Google Wallet tries later, the ad model still calls the shots.
• PYMNTS | BNPL’s Biggest Opportunity May Be Its Least Likely User (pymnts.com)
  A new PYMNTS Intelligence report finds consumers who could most benefit from financial tools are not using BNPL options.
• PYMNTS | Robinhood Fields States' Requests For Local Investment Accou… (pymnts.com)
  Robinhood’s participation in the Trump Accounts program may lead to the company entering additional public-sector partnerships.
• PYMNTS | Cross-Border Payments Is Becoming Infrastructure. What's Nex… (pymnts.com)
  Cross-border payments are becoming faster, more standardized and more deeply embedded in shared infrastructure. Here's why that matters.
• PYMNTS | AI Tackles Paperwork Problem Blocking America’s Housing Perm… (pymnts.com)
  Denver deployed CivCheck to catch missing documents and application errors before plans reach city reviewers.
• PYMNTS | Costco Sets Gas Sales Records as Drivers Seek Bargains (pymnts.com)
  Costco sold a record amount of gas during the quarter ended May 10, as consumers sought relief from rising prices caused by the war in Iran.
• PYMNTS | Airwallex Challenges Legacy Software With New Billing Soluti… (pymnts.com)
  Airwallex Billing includes tools for invoicing, subscription management and usage-based billing, allowing users to adopt relevant features.