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The FCA’s move comes amid rising digital wallet usage in the UK.

Chime posted its first-ever quarterly profit on Wednesday, as resilient consumer spending in the first three months ‌of the year lifted demand for the financial technology firm's digital banking products. Consumer ‌spending remained resilient in the first quarter as individuals and businesses maintained spending trends and supported the payments sector, ​despite broader macroeconomic volatility linked to the war in the Middle East. Payments processing company Visa also reported a rise in quarterly profit last week, helped by the spending trends.

PayPal Holdings, Visa and Mastercard are under investigation by U.K. authorities for anticompetitive conduct related to PayPal's digital wallet. The Financial Conduct Authority, the finance regulator in the U.K., said Wednesday that it "has reached no conclusions nor made any findings" that competition law had been broken. Shares in Visa and Mastercard fell 1% and 1.4%, respectively, while PayPal shares were down about 0.33% as the broader market surged.

Artificial-intelligence lab Anthropic is diving deeper into the financial services industry, releasing tools on Tuesday that can speed up myriad tasks for banks and insurers while CEO ‌Dario Amodei predicted further software disruption. Hardly a year into unveiling ambitions to tailor AI for finance, Anthropic has rapidly expanded its business, with adoption by Goldman Sachs, Visa, Citi, AIG and others. Speaking from the stage at the ⁠packed event, Amodei said Anthropic's revenue in the first quarter had grown "80x" on an annualized basis.

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Artificial-intelligence lab Anthropic is diving deeper into the financial services industry, releasing software on Tuesday that can speed up myriad tasks for banks,

PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ:PYPL) shares are tumbling roughly 10% in early trading Tuesday morning to about $45.50, after the company reported a Q1 2026 earnings beat alongside a soft Q2 outlook. The stock closed Monday at $50.39 before the report. The slide extends an already painful run. PYPL stock entered the earnings report down 13% year ... PayPal Tumbles 10% Despite Q1 Earnings Beat: Is the Venmo Spin-off Enough to Save the Stock?

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Advanced Micro Devices is expected to post strong growth driven by AI data center demand, though pricing pressure could weigh on margins.

AFRM is set to report Q3 fiscal 2026 results on May 7, with GMV, active consumers and transaction growth expected to lift revenues nearly 27% year over year.

PYPL heads into Q1 results with modest revenue growth expected and EPS decline forecast, as competition and FX pressures weigh.

Every few years, investors start to fret that payments giant Visa is finally going to be disrupted. The latest candidate for disruption is, naturally, artificial intelligence. The new fear is that agentic commerce, featuring AI agents doing consumers’ shopping for them, will displace people tapping, swiping or clicking with their credit or debit cards.

An Illinois law set to go into effect this summer would ban interchange fee on taxes and tips, and has banks up in arms.