Stripe Builds Its Own Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments

Stripe Builds Its Own Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments
Stripe Builds Its Own Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

FinTech Stripe has spent much of its operational history making it easier for merchants to plug into the financial system. Now, it is trying to...

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Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
February 25, 2026  |  Investments

Tether Investments said it aims to promote the use of stablecoin payments by making a strategic investment in Whop, an internet market designed to help...

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OpenAI Intelligence Report Identifies New Tactics in AI-Enhanced Scams
OpenAI Intelligence Report Identifies New Tactics in AI-Enhanced Scams
February 25, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Criminals are using artificial intelligence in combination with websites, social media and other tools to carry out scams and other malicious operations, OpenAI said Wednesday...

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Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a...

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Lowe’s Deploys Digital Tools to Power Growing B2B Sales
Lowe’s Deploys Digital Tools to Power Growing B2B Sales
February 25, 2026  |  Earnings

Home improvement company Lowe’s saw growth in its Pro, online and Home Services businesses in the fourth quarter while the do-it-yourself business remained muted. Get...

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Installment Payments Come to Luxury Retail as Wealthy Buyers Feel Price Pressures
Installment Payments Come to Luxury Retail as Wealthy Buyers Feel Price Pressures
February 25, 2026  |  Retail

About a hundred years ago, so the story goes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the Jazz Age, turned to Ernest Hemingway and remarked, “The rich...

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AI Disruption Debate Roils Markets and Refocuses Risk
AI Disruption Debate Roils Markets and Refocuses Risk
February 25, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

While everyone is worried about AI’s ability to write everything from term papers to publication-ready journalism, it was a human writing about AI that rocked...

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Wharton Study Finds Structured AI Improves Learning More Than On-Demand Help
Wharton Study Finds Structured AI Improves Learning More Than On-Demand Help
February 25, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

New research from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly improve learning outcomes, but only when its...

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JPMorgan’s $20 Billion Tech Bet Could Shrink FinTech’s Innovation Edge
JPMorgan’s $20 Billion Tech Bet Could Shrink FinTech’s Innovation Edge
February 25, 2026  |  Banking

Updating the banking core has traditionally been viewed as akin to docking a cruise ship, with modernization serving as shorthand for incrementalism. Digitize the front...

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