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Google has launched its Agent Payments Protocol, an open protocol that establishes a payment-agnostic framework for users, merchants and payments in agentic AI. Payment companies such as Adyen, American Express, Mastercard and PayPal helped develop the protocol.

SMS-based multifactor authentication is now so badly compromised that it has become a major vector for fraud. But there's a potential solution, and it's in every bank customer's pocket.

The card brand has added several tools that expand "agentic commerce," which adds artificial intelligence-based automation to shopping, service and checkout, innovation that's becoming popular with payment companies.

A 2024 hospital ransomware breach highlights what Wyden calls Microsoft's systemic failures, urging the FTC to take action.

The Ohio bank sees 10% to 15% cost reductions coming from using generative AI in software development, customer service, personalization and other areas.

Noelle Acheson points out that crypto custody is about more than incorporating new assets into an established service; it's about reshaping how we see standard financial concepts and using the resulting innovations to rethink client relationships.

From FedNow to Venmo, banks are tapping QR codes for speed and security. Scammers are also exploiting the blind trust they elicit.

Researchers warn the Android banking trojan can steal money, drain crypto wallets and enable NFC relay fraud.

Predators often target boys ages 14 to 17, demanding money or using deepfakes to extort them.

A critical U.S. cybersecurity law sunsets Sept. 30, and banks say losing it would weaken defenses against hackers.