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Bad Financial Data Is AI’s Biggest Liability

A closer examination of transaction-level records uncovered foreign exchange spreads that averaged about 2%, creating millions of dollars in lost revenue across roughly $100 million in cross-border payments volume. “If you apply that to $100 million of cross-border payments being processed, that could be $2 million a year that’s lost,” Catterall said.

CANONICAL SOURCEPYMNTS
DATE VERIFICATIONVerified: July 23, 2026
CAPTUREDJul 23, 09:23 AM
EVIDENCE TIERB1 · Independent / regulatory corroboration
TRACE IDbad-financial-data-is-ai-s-biggest-liability-bf8f8cb8
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Bad Financial Data Is AI’s Biggest Liability

Evidence tier: B1 Evidence type: Independent payments trade media report Source: PYMNTS Published: 2026-07-23 Captured: 2026-07-23T13:23:46.627Z

Source summary

A closer examination of transaction-level records uncovered foreign exchange spreads that averaged about 2%, creating millions of dollars in lost revenue across roughly $100 million in cross-border payments volume. “If you apply that to $100 million of cross-border payments being processed, that could be $2 million a year that’s lost,” Catterall said.

Why it matters

This signal matters because delegated authorization, identity and payment controls will determine whether software agents can transact safely across financial platforms and payment networks.

Key numbers

No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report.

Topics and entities

  • Industry lane: Agentic payments
  • Entities: UBS
  • AI-native finance
  • Cross-border payments

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Date evidence: Automatically verified from article:published_time: 2026-07-23T08:01:43+00:00

First-party corroboration

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