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Technology & Payments

What Comes After Tap to Pay? Prioritizing Virtual Cards; Walmart Is Using Its Own Fintech Firm to Provide Credit Cards; How Community Banks Can Leverage the BaaS Paradigm; Open Banking Central to Fintechs’ Work
Happening in Tech

AI & Digital Assets

Stablecoins Entering the Financial Mainstream; The AI Arms Race: Deepfake Generation vs. Detection; Transforming Small Financial Institutions with AI; FSB Warns Crypto Nearing ‘Tipping Point’ as Ties to TradFi Deepen
AI Policy News

Fraud & Cybersecurity

China Could Be Accessing Browsing Data on VPNs; First Person: How Fraud Found My Family; Ransomware Attack Uses Unusual Mix of Legitimate & Open-Source Tools; Banking Groups Urge Treasury to Improve Security After Email Hack
Cyber News

Industry & Regulation

CAMELS, ‘M’ Should Stand For ‘Modernization’; CDFIs: Serving the Underserved and Making Missing Markets; OCC Rejects Call to Rescind Preemption Rule; Focus Shifts to NDAA After Credit Card Competition Act Falls Short Again
Industry Updates

News Around the States

– Public Corporation for the Supervision and Insurance of Cooperatives of Puerto Rico Receives NASCUS Accreditation
– Connecticut Gov. Lamont Signs Bill Easing Regulations on State-Chartered Credit Unions; Legislation Received Pushback from Banks
– Maryland Launches $2.5M Fund to Help Small Businesses Grow with Access to Banking Act
– The Credit Union Cowboy Podcast: Credit Union Advocacy with Sarah Waters
– NASCUS Opens Nominations for 2025 Pierre Jay Award
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Consumers Brace for Steeper Bills and Lower Credit Scores from Trump’s Financial Deregulation

From medical debt to overdraft fees, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new leaders are targeting recent policies that advocates hoped would be too popular…

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The AI Adoption Journey: A Survey of Credit Union Leaders

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate strategic conversations—but how are credit unions actually implementing it? The Filene Research Institute surveyed 110 leaders across 78 credit unions to find out. The…

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The NFT Market Is Silently Becoming Infrastructure

While headlines proclaim the NFT market’s demise, NFTs are quietly shifting from speculative assets to essential digital infrastructure. NFTs are moving beyond speculation to underpin gaming, AI and Web3. Some…

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