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    How agentic AI will lure shoppers

    It’s likely to be through a gradual process of trust-building and smaller purchases, a payments executive predicts.

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    Visa, Mastercard track about 4% holiday retail sales growth

    The 2025 holiday season saw consumers shopping across channels to land the best deals and maximize convenience, according to new reports. 

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    CFPB must request funds from Fed, court rules

    A federal judge rejected an argument that the bureau would run out of money in early 2026 because the central bank hadn’t turned a profit since 2022.

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    DOJ presses Visa antitrust case

    The Justice Department is pressing ahead with the debit card market case brought against the network during the Biden administration.

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    Consumer groups attack card settlement

    Groups representing consumers and small business joined merchants in faulting a proposed Visa, Mastercard card fee settlement.

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    Klarna faces investor lawsuit

    The buy now, pay later company understated the risks of its consumer loans, the legal action alleges.

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    CFPB shifts on EWA policy, again

    Certain employer-partnered earned wage access products aren’t subject to U.S. lending laws, the bureau said, formally discarding a 2024 Biden-era rule.

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    Klarna, Shift4 embrace stablecoins

    Both companies announced stablecoin ventures in the past week.

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    Executive shuffle: Fiserv, DailyPay and MoneyGram

    Major payments services providers made new C-suite hires this month as they geared up for 2026.

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    Fed seeks ‘skinny’ account comment

    The Federal Reserve Board voted 6-1 Friday to gather public comment on creating a new special payments account for use by financial institutions.

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    Fiserv, Visa unite on agentic tools

    The payment processor plans to partner with card networks, also including Mastercard, to cater to merchants navigating agentic commerce.

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    Can transparency curb synthetic fraud?

    Giving consumers a deeper look into their data will reduce payments fraud, the president of checkout software firm Bolt contends.

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    Fintech Mercury applies for OCC bank charter

    The company also appointed an alum of SoFi, Green Dot and Goldman Sachs to serve as CEO of the proposed bank.