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A hand above a payment approval switch, connected through a green gate beside an invoice.

AI agents · Sep 26

Before an AI Agent Makes a Payment: Permissions, Limits and Approval

An agent can prepare a payment. Separate controls must decide whether it is allowed to send it.

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Nested bars showing TGCR, BGCR and SOFR repo data layers, with the lowest 20 percent of DVP volume trimmed before a volume-weighted median is taken

SOFR · Oct 28

What Is SOFR? How the New York Fed Calculates It

Where SOFR comes from, how repo trades become a volume-weighted median, and how the averages and index work.

Three steps under NYC Local Law 144, bias audit, public summary and notice, beside a grid of ten business days of notice before an automated hiring tool is used

NYC Local Law 144 · Oct 28

NYC Local Law 144: Bias Audits for AI Hiring Tools

What NYC's AI hiring tool law requires: a yearly independent bias audit, a public summary and advance notice.

Diagram of a card payment authorized first, held for a provider-set window, then either captured in full or part or cancelled to release the hold

Payment APIs · Oct 28

Authorize and Capture in Payment APIs, Compared

How separate authorization and capture works at Stripe, Adyen, PayPal and Square, from hold windows to expiry.

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