Fiserv Integrates Mastercard Agent Pay Into Merchant Platform

Fiserv Integrates Mastercard Agent Pay Into Merchant Platform
Fiserv Integrates Mastercard Agent Pay Into Merchant Platform
January 02, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Fiserv and Mastercard expanded their partnership to support agentic commerce, as payments companies move to establish how artificial intelligence systems can securely initiate and complete...

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Disney to Pay $10 Million to Settle Alleged Violations of Children’s Privacy Laws
Disney to Pay $10 Million to Settle Alleged Violations of Children’s Privacy Laws
January 02, 2026  |  Legal

A federal court has approved a settlement in which Disney will pay $10 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that it violated children’s privacy...

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Commercial Real Estate Turns to AI to Automate the Back Office
Commercial Real Estate Turns to AI to Automate the Back Office
January 02, 2026  |  Real Estate

Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape commercial real estate—not through futuristic smart buildings, but by automating the manual back-office work that underpins valuations, underwriting,...

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Commerce Bancshares Completes Acquisition of FineMark Bank
Commerce Bancshares Completes Acquisition of FineMark Bank
January 02, 2026  |  Acquisitions

Commerce Bancshares, the parent company of Commerce Bank, has completed its previously announced acquisition of FineMark Holdings, the parent company of FineMark National Bank &...

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Google Pushes AI Onto Devices
Google Pushes AI Onto Devices
January 02, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

For much of the past decade, artificial intelligence has been concentrated in the cloud. Large models trained and run in centralized data centers have powered...

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Saks Executive Chairman Becomes CEO Amid Retailer’s Potential Bankruptcy
Saks Executive Chairman Becomes CEO Amid Retailer’s Potential Bankruptcy
January 02, 2026  |  Retail

Saks Global Executive Chairman Richard Baker has assumed the additional role of CEO amid reports that the luxury retail company is considering bankruptcy. Get the Full...

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OpenAI Debuts Audio AI Models Ahead of New Personal Devices
OpenAI Debuts Audio AI Models Ahead of New Personal Devices
January 02, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

OpenAI is reportedly improving its audio artificial intelligence (AI) models because it expects users of future personal AI devices to communicate with them through voice...

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Treasury Software Strengthens Liquidity Management as Real-Time Rails Expand
Treasury Software Strengthens Liquidity Management as Real-Time Rails Expand
January 02, 2026  |  B2B Payments

PYMNTS Intelligence has long spotlighted the value that real-time payments bring to consumer disbursements and emergency use cases. Beyond those use cases, faster funding is...

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Compliance Is Crypto’s New Cost of Doing Business
Compliance Is Crypto’s New Cost of Doing Business
January 02, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency industry is turning over a new leaf in the New Year. And this new leaf comes with new laws. Get the Full Story...

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