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Open finance fintech Plaid has unveiled AI models designed to help financial firms make better lending decisions, catch more fraud, and reduce payment risk. Plaid notes that millions of US adults fall outside of the traditional credit lens, making them difficult to evaluate with traditional scores alone. To help with this, the firm is tapping into cash flow data, which shows how people earn, spend, and pay their bills, giving lenders a fuller picture of their ability to repay.
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The CFTC proposed a framework that would let crypto exchanges register under a new federal βcrypto asset marketβ regime, with leverage or margin serving as the main trigger for federal oversight while non-leveraged exchanges could remain under state licensing. The plan would also introduce broker, AML, proof-of-reserves, and market-manipulation standards, marking a shift toward formal rulemaking after the Clarity Act failed to advance in Congress.
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With Cloudflare's latest launch, agents can now pay at request time rather than requiring subscriptions. The economics of software is changing by becoming the economics of tokens and inference. Intelligence acts upon data, and data is still gated all across different parts of the web. In order to be able to answer questions and book trips, robots need to query information and pull together a lot of disconnected context. Little tentacles will extend from our searches into machine brains, ready to purchase whatever mana is needed to fulfill our wish.
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Modern Treasury applied to the OCC to create a limited-purpose national trust bank that would add federally supervised digital asset custody and related fiat services to its existing payments platform. If approved, customers could custody and move both stablecoins and fiat through an integrated setup, while the proposed bank would remain separate from Modern Treasury's software business and would not make loans or issue stablecoins.
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Stuut connects to accounting, banking, sales, and payment systems so its AI agents can pursue collections, resolve invoice disputes, and match incoming cash rather than merely flagging work for employees. The October 7 round, led by Insight Partners with Andreessen Horowitz and Microsoft's M12 participating, brings total funding to $93 million as the company expands from receivables into credit, lending, and cross-border payments.
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