For brands relying on senses that cannot be communicated via eCommerce — smell, taste, touch — it can be difficult to build a pure-play direct-to-consumer (D2C) audience. Broken Top Candle Company is addressing this problem by leveraging brick-and-mortar stores to draw in new customers, while...
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Fieldguide has raised $30 million for its accounting industry offering. The Series B funding round, announced Tuesday (March 26), will let the company launch new AI capabilities, expand its market reach, and add to its team as it tries to alleviate what it says is...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is recruiting more technologists and conducting additional research to address the role of transformative technologies in consumer financial markets. The agency aims to help ensure that the rights of consumers are not being violated as the tech ecosystem evolves,...
Driven by digitalized operating models, today’s B2B procurement processes are hardly recognizable to those just five years ago. While that’s good news for younger B2B buyers and Generation Z decision-makers, it puts companies relying primarily on legacy processes and manual workflows in the hot seat...
The U.K.’s financial watchdog is warning social media influencers against making misleading financial services promotions. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Tuesday (March 26) issued guidelines aimed at social media advertising, telling influencers they could be breaking the law by promoting financial products without regulatory approval. “Any marketing for...
As they say in horse racing and on Wall Street: You pays your money and you takes your choice. The news that Chime Financial is mulling an initial public offering next year means some is mulling in store for investors. They might be well-served in pondering some...
One of the U.K.’s oldest retailers, Marks and Spencer (M&S) announced last week it plans to shutter 110 stores during the next five years. This news comes only weeks after reports that the British division of The Body Shop was closing nearly half of its...
TreviPay added a new self-financing option and enhanced payment application features to its B2B payments and invoicing network. The new features are designed to give sellers more control over their trade credit portfolio while using TreviPay’s platform, the company said in a Tuesday (March 26) press release. “TreviPay’s...
Portugal has reportedly put the brakes on Worldcoin’s biometric data collection efforts. As Reuters reported Tuesday (March 26), the country’s data regulator has ordered Worldcoin to halt its data collection for 90 days. The move marks the latest in a series of regulatory setbacks for the company, founded by OpenAI CEO...