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In global news this week, regulators in EU worry about staffing, American Express expands B2B cross-border payments, ATMs in New Zealand get an upgrade, and more.

The payment company's strategy includes cost cutting, new products such as a Venmo account for teens, and welcoming input from Elliott Management, an activist investor that took a $2 billion stake in the firm.

The three-month London interbank offered rate for dollars climbed to a nearly 14-year high as traders brace for steady interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, backing away from speculation the central bank will ease up as the economy shows signs of cooling. 

The report from Senate Homeland Security Committee ranking member Rob Portman, R-Ohio, details China's campaign to infiltrate the Federal Reserve. But even amid rising tensions between the U.S. and China, response to the report has been muted.

The agency must take a principles-based approach rather than trying to cover every possible issue in detail.

A push in Washington to transform the U.S. derivatives regulator into a top crypto watchdog is gaining steam with a Senate bill that would give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sweeping new powers to oversee the asset class.

Equifax said some consumer credit scores were changed because of a computer error that has since been rectified.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is looking to bolster its stateside capital markets business with the acquisition of Cowen. The deal comes even as the Canadian banking giant awaits approval of another merger that would make it a top-six U.S. bank.

Robinhood Markets cut almost a quarter of its workforce in a broad reorganization after a punishing first year as a public company.

Equifax provided inaccurate credit scores on millions of U.S. consumers looking for loans, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing bank executives and people familiar with the matter it didn't identify.