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The government's real-time rail, which had a banner year in 2025, has proposed a way for its members to access settlements for payments that include a party that's outside of the U.S. Payment experts say it removes some of the mud from cross-border real-time payments, but lingering hurdles remain.

The U.S. is preparing to turn its conflict with Iran into the kind of economic war that Iran has been waging since the start.

A new International Monetary Fund working paper highlights how inadequate data sharing leaves the U.S. banking sector vulnerable to transnational fraud syndicates.

The credit card lender, which is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings April 23, followed its release of an agentic commerce kit by agreeing to acquire Hypercard, a Sam Altman-backed company that uses AI to support expense management.

Anthropic's new AI model can autonomously exploit software flaws, prompting urgent security meetings among U.S. and U.K. financial regulators.

The topic of AI implementation came up on several big banks' first-quarter earnings calls. Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick said Wednesday that the firm views AI as a friend.

Nir Zuk, who founded cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks and retired from the firm last year, has applied to acquire voting shares in Liberty Bank, N.A.

The card network expanded work with blockchain firms OwlTing and Tempo, increasing its reach into agentic commerce and stablecoins.

The deal between OpenAI and personal financial management startup Hiro Finance, the second of its kind for the AI company, will lead to the sunset of the Hiro platform next month.

The credit card giant's BVNK acquisition wasn't a bet on crypto hype. It was a hedge against irrelevance. It suggests that the companies that defined the last era of finance are now preparing for a very different future.