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The state is requiring merchants to accept cash denominations of $20 and under and prohibits them from charging extra to accept cash. The law, which goes into effect in March, comes as merchants are responding to the Trump administration's abrupt cancellation of penny production.

More than 400,000 consumers may be affected after Marquis Software Solutions suffered a breach traced to a bug in SonicWall software disclosed last year.

Employees throughout the company can use generative AI to query data from sales calls, email, invoices and a host of other information sources. 

The card network is making a digital wallet push following the Digital Markets Act, which dilutes Apple's control over mobile payments technology.

What is a dollar? Noelle Acheson highlights how stablecoins are underlining the ways in which the absence of an official definition can have geopolitical and macroeconomic consequences.

Circle's Dante Disparte and Block's Owen Jennings discuss how blockchain, crypto and AI can combine to open new lanes for international commerce. Payment experts say banks need to play catch up.

After two successful international expansions, Junqueira aims to bring Nubank's products to U.S. consumers even as the neobank faces strong competition from U.S.-based banks and fintechs.

While banks welcome the "whole-of-government" approach that led the effort, private sector takedowns remain difficult without federal warrants.

A group of European banks have formed Qivalis, which expects to launch its coin in early 2026 as a counter to the U.S. dollar-led market. Plus, Singapore regulators give Ripple permission to expand and other news in the global payments and fintech roundup.

As artificial intelligence boosts productivity gains, there is a danger that additional profits will accrue only to investors, leaving workers in the dust. A "10% for the people" tax could allow everyone to share in AI's benefits.