Technology

Fedwire has migrated to ISO 20022, a messaging standard designed to make it easier for digital real-time processing rails to work together. It's a difficult lift for banks, but the agency promises it will be worth it.

First-party fraud — customers claiming they never made a transaction when they know full well they did — is a growing problem for banks. An emerging host of vendors including Socure are offering machine learning models that detect this.

The fintech has made its core payment app interoperable with Venmo and will connect 2 billion users through partnerships in India, China, Brazil and other major digital commerce markets.

As the U.S. moves to make central bank digital currencies illegal, projects in other countries are moving slowly. Also: U.K. regulators look for new ways to monitor Apple and more in the global payments and fintech roundup.

American Banker's Frictionless Fraud report finds not all institutions are well assured their customer verification tools can keep up with new schemes.

Markets are increasingly moving toward 24/7 functionality through the use of blockchain technology. Companies that don't adapt will be left in the dust.

Sam Altman, the founder and CEO of OpenAI, said the rapidly growing capabilities of AI are rendering many of banks' fraud prevention measures useless and warned of an "impending fraud crisis" if banks don't update their processes.

The bank is reportedly considering allowing bitcoin and ethereum to back loans. Volatility in digital assets would make it a difficult market, according to payment experts.

Countries around the world are retreating from the economic integration that drove growth in the post-Cold War era. The result will be an unnecessary hindrance of progress.

Paxos and Mastercard are among the firms betting that legal clarity will lead to a wider range of stablecoin users.