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New forms of artificial intelligence can take most, if not all, of shopping and checkout out of the hands of humans. Not everybody is going to be comfortable with that, though the payment giant sees travel as a good place to start.

Payments greater than $1 million are favored among the Charlotte-based bank's corporate clients; the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority taps NVIDIA for AI testing and more in this week's global payments roundup.

The French institution is one of the first to take advantage of new regulations that are supportive of crypto. Payment experts say banks have work to do to beat existing stablecoins.

Shell companies, stablecoin and a Bahaman bank that took orders from a gang of fraudsters all took part in a scheme that bilked U.S. victims of millions.

A coalition of trade groups urges federal agencies to match private-sector cybersecurity standards.

The bank says it hopes to help improve the payments ecosystem and meet the needs of underserved customers through supporting U.K.-based fintechs.

A new executive order reverses digital ID initiatives, fraud alerts and federal data-sharing plans from which banks stood to benefit.

Tech leaders explain how they're trying to use artificial intelligence to better understand customers and communicate with them, without seeming robotic.

The government should allow and encourage financial institutions to deploy advanced technologies to protect customers from fraud enabled by agentic AI, instead of punishing them for innovating in response to new threats.

Large language models, bespoke hardware and embedded AI are attracting banks' tech dollars, experts say.