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Acquisitions
iCapital to Add ‘Reusable Financial Identity’ With Parallel Markets Acquisition

FinTech company iCapital plans to enhance its alternative investment marketplace platform...

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Retail
Amazon Launches Retail Ad Service to Compete With Walmart Connect

Amazon has launched its Retail Ad Service, a new platform designed...

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Investments
1Money Raises $20 Million to Launch Network for Stablecoin Payments

1Money emerged from stealth Thursday (Jan. 16), saying it raised over...

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B2B Payments
This Week in B2B: Navigating the Twin Challenges of Innovation...

In today’s business landscape, a paradox is taking shape. As innovation...

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Buy Now Pay Later
Synchrony Gives Customers Access to Apple’s Pay Later

Synchrony is giving certain customers access to the Pay Later feature...

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Earnings
PNC to Complement Branch Expansion With New Online Banking Platform

PNC Financial Service Group will soon roll out a new online...

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Earnings
UnitedHealth Bets on Digital Innovation to Improve Care

Digital transformation is at the forefront of an overarching strategy to elevate...

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Insurance
PayPal Ventures Helps InsurTech Olé Life Raise $13 Million

Latin American InsurTech Olé Life has raised $13 million with the...

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Earnings
US Bancorp Anticipates Fee-Based Momentum After Year of ‘Uncertainty’

U.S. Bancorp’s most recent quarter took note of changing dynamics in...

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Economy
Report: Job Market ‘Healthy’ Despite Higher-Than-Expected Unemployment Claims

Jobless claims reportedly rose more than expected last week, but media...

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Insurance
Columbia Insurance Group Taps Into One Inc’s Payment Solutions

Insurance industry payment platform One Inc says Columbia Insurance Group has adopted its digital payments...

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News
Swap and Avalara Team to Promote Cross-Border eCommerce Compliance

eCommerce operating system Swap has launched a partnership with tax compliance...

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Cybersecurity
Biden Orders Federal Government to Improve Nation’s Cybersecurity

President Joe Biden issued an executive order Thursday (Jan. 16) requiring the...

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CFPB
CFPB: Block Must Pay $175 Million for Cash App’s ‘Weak...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Cash App owner Block to...

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artificial intelligence
AI Models and Tools Update: ChatGPT’s Tasks, Adobe’s Bulk Edit

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is becoming the little engine that could. Its latest...

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Retail
Retail and Food Services Sales Grow 3.9% YOY in December

Retail and food services sales in the United States grew in...

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Earnings
Deliveroo Revenue Climbs Despite UK’s ‘Uncertain Consumer Environment’

Consumer caution in the United Kingdom wasn’t enough to hinder Deliveroo’s...

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B2B Payments
How Tech Procurement Pitfalls Sunk UK Government’s Innovation Goals

While innovative business solutions dominate headlines, the behind-the-scenes decisions that power...

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IPO
eToro Plans $5 Billion US IPO For Retail Trading Platform

Retail trading platform eToro is reportedly readying to go public in...

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Travel Payments
Nuvei Integrates With Outpayce’s Payment Platform for Travel Merchants

Nuvei is the latest payments service provider to be integrated into...

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Retail
Target Lifts Guidance After Record Black Friday-Cyber Monday Sales

Record post-Thanksgiving sales have caused Target to raise its sales guidance. The retailer announced Thursday...

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Artificial Intelligence
Google Wants 500 Million Gemini AI Users by Year’s End

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly thinks his company’s artificial intelligence model,...

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BNPL
UK BNPL Volumes Jump Nearly 20% Amid Increased Scrutiny

British consumers are increasingly embracing buy now, pay later (BNPL) plans...

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Acquisitions
TransUnion Expands in Mexico With $560 Million Buro de Crédito...

TransUnion plans to purchase Mexico’s biggest credit bureau’s consumer credit business for...

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Politics
Trump Could Reportedly Reverse TikTok Ban Via Executive Order 

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering a plan to halt a...

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Partnerships
Partnerships Between Credit Unions and FinTechs Create ‘Proactive Future’

In the past, financial institutions and FinTechs competed with one another,...

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Artificial Intelligence
GenAI’s Retail Revolution Expands to B2B Marketplaces

Artificial intelligence’s business utility is no longer the realm of futuristic...

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Banking
How Platforms and Partnerships Moved a 167-Year-Old Bank Into the...

As financial services move increasingly online — even as value remains...

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Consumer Payments
60% of US Consumers Use P2P Apps to Pay Bills

Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platforms have gained popularity, especially among young consumers...

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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Risks Cause Middle-Market CFOs to Cancel Innovation Plans

CFOs for middle-market firms commonly report that cybersecurity risks are a...

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Opinion
Get Ready for a New Buzzphrase: Autonomous Commerce

AI-powered innovation is reshaping B2B payments, but not all AI is...

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Social Commerce
Chinese Social Media App RedNote Gains US Users Ahead of...

Chinese social media app RedNote has reportedly gained 700,000 new users...

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Regulation
Block to Pay $80 Million to Settle AML Violation Allegations

Block has agreed to pay an $80 million fine and undertake...

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Insurance
Insurance Payments Platform ePayPolicy Adds Quoting and Invoicing Tool

Insurance payments platform ePayPolicy has added a quoting and invoicing tool....

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Digital Banking
Citi Contends With Mobile App Outage, Directs Users to Website

Citibank has resolved an outage of its mobile app about a day...

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Earnings
Citi Sees Growth Ahead From ‘High-End’ Consumers

Citigroup’s fourth-quarter earnings results were part of a trend in banking...

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Healthcare
Tech Rx Helps Independent Pharmacies Thrive in a Changing Market

Independent pharmacies are adapting to new dynamics, with digital tools and...

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B2B Payments
TradeCentric Debuts New Tool for Shopify B2B Users

B2B connected commerce firm TradeCentric has a new offering for Shopify B2B users. The company’s...

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