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Key insights: Mastercard has expanded its use of agentic commerce and has recruited cryptocurrency firms for an advisory council. What’s at stake: Payment firms and banks are…

Chinese tech company Baidu, best known for its search engine, also operates cloud, mapping and other internet-based services.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Baidu plans…

Key insights: Square is offering an AI assistant to U.K. merchants. What’s at stake: Square is hoping to tap into merchant demand for better technology in an…

Key insight: The better-than-expected jobs report saw 130,000 jobs added in January, while unemployment dropped to 4.3%. What’s at stake: The Federal Reserve is watching the numbers…

Key Insight: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is restructuring its supervisory appeals process to mandate one member of the three-member review panel have banking experience and…

Key insights: Klarna has added peer-to-peer transfers. What’s at stake: Best known in the U.S. as a buy now/pay later lender, Klarna is diversifying its product mix…

Key insights: PNC has partnered with Extend to expand virtual cards, an older payment option that has gained steam in recent years.  What’s at stake: Banks and…

With Visa and Mastercard attempting to bring agentic commerce to a wider audience, Stripe is adding its own set of tools.Processing ContentStripe has launched Agentic Commerce…

(Bloomberg) — U.S. job growth remained sluggish in November and the unemployment rate rose to a four-year high, pointing to a continued cooling in the labor…

Fraud and misrepresentation remain persistent challenges in the mortgage industry and Freddie Mac is responding by bringing Quality Control Advisor Plus to the market, a tool…