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The U.K. bank's "Scam Intelligence" tool uses Google's Gemini to analyze images and texts for red flags, aiming to reduce losses from authorized push payment fraud.

PayPal, Google and Mastercard in recent days expanded support for agentic AI commerce. Card issuers will need to respond quickly to compete, payment experts say.

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.

Whether in fake ads or misleading documents, anywhere fraud might be happening on Google, banks have a new way to quickly shut it down.

Google Cloud trails Amazon and Microsoft in market share and is looking to catch up by trying to be one of multiple providers that companies use.

Regulators are investigating the technology giants over concerns their financial apps are violating competition rules. That and expanding tech in emerging markets highlight this week's American Banker global payments roundup.

Data center operators and users such as banks need to plan now for AI's growing power needs.

Norwegian fintech Vipps' consumers can use iPhones to make digital payments following Apple's settlement with regulators. Klarna gets hit with a money-laundering fine and more in our weekly global payments roundup.

The company said the P2P payment service the bureau seeks to supervise presents no risk to consumers because it is no longer offered in the U.S.

A court said the technology giant must be less restrictive at checkout. The move will likely lower transaction fees, but it still won't be easy for competitors to grab market share.

The money transfer service and the U.K.'s Post Office were on the verge of an extension. Then the hack came. This and updates from Worldpay, Mastercard and JCB in our global payments roundup.

The card brands and tech giants are expanding their payments reach in one of the world's largest markets, while facing a multi-billion-dollar class action complaint by British businesses over fees. That and more in American Banker's weekly global roundup.

The big box retailer's move comes amid a broader decline for the traditional payment option.

By making it easier to enroll and access financial services such as buy now/pay later lending, the search giant hopes to enhance connections with users.

The payment company is working with Google Cloud to develop new forms of machine learning on a larger scale.

Google Pay's collaboration with the country's digital transaction network is the latest example of Indian tech informing strategy elsewhere in the world, including the U.S.

In a crowded market for mobile payment apps, the search giant hopes to expand its support of driver's licenses, providing a key method of authentication for more financial services.

Despite tougher economic conditions, BNPL lenders are driving growth by expanding to new audiences and checkout channels, as well as fine-tuning proprietary risk-management models.

Google's $700 million antitrust settlement is part of a series of legal battles that are eroding Big Tech's control over checkout, cracking a door for other transaction processors and the bank-led Paze wallet from Zelle's developers.

A jury found the tech giant violated anti-monopoly rules by requiring in-house checkout for game makers such as Epic, which publishes Fortnite. Google and Apple may have to cut fees, but outside processors will be challenged to create a winning user experience.