Mastercard has added an "agentic cloud" to speed deployment, while Visa has issued a protocol to help AI agents communicate. That and more in American Banker's global payments and fintech roundup.

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Wednesday that breakthroughs in artificial intelligence will undoubtedly make life easier and lead to growth, but acknowledged that the technology's adoption will lead to short-term labor market disruptions.

Artificial intelligence offers debt collection companies the opportunity to vastly improve margins while achieving higher levels of regulatory compliance and maximizing scalability.

The company is becoming a full-fledged processor and accelerating its artificial intelligence plays, moves CEO Paulette Rowe said provide more control over agentic commerce, which payment experts say is threatening traditional payment facilitators.

TD Securities began making OpenAI's ChatGPT available to traders in June and it's become a "massive time save," according to Chief Information Officer Dan Bosman. 

Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr is warning small banks about the growing threat from fraudsters' use of AI-generated deepfakes. But he also says AI may be able to help community banks fight fraud more effectively.

The two banks lead Evident's AI Index, which scores banks according to AI talent, innovation, leadership and transparency.

The demise of the banking industry in the U.S. has been incorrectly predicted for generations. The truth is that the industry never dies, because it never stands still.

Jennifer Taylor at Citibank and Jodi Richard at U.S. Bank are driving a rethinking of how to tackle the risks banks face using technology.

Two large companies' announcements that they're laying off thousands of people they've deemed not AI-savvy have drawn mostly negative reactions. 

A flurry of product launches are designed to keep the payment company's merchants in-house by making it easier to deploy artificial intelligence-driven payments and stablecoins.

The bank added an AI assistant to improve business payment tools, a move that comes at the same time that Citigroup and Temenos pushed their strategies for emerging AI at banks.

A memo sent to 175,000 employees gives them 60 days to complete the training.

In a Stanford University study, workers said receiving shoddy content from generative AI models creates almost two hours of extra work per incident. 

The crypto company's x402 Foundation will standardize transactions, making the company one of many technology firms working on standards for AI-powered commerce.

The credit score provider has developed "focused" language artificial intelligence models purpose-built for tasks like detecting payment fraud, assessing risk and recommending next best actions.

Students are collaborating with credit specialists at the lending platform to build agentic AI models for small business lending and for helping small business owners manage their finances.