Merchants Find Revenue Hiding Behind the Decline Button

Merchants Find Revenue Hiding Behind the Decline Button
Merchants Find Revenue Hiding Behind the Decline Button
August 14, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

In a fragmented payments environment, how intelligently infrastructure decides what should happen to every transaction is becoming a key definition of payments performance and success....

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Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years
Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years
August 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1% expected very positive returns within one to...

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Before AI Runs the Bank, It Can Replace the Card
Before AI Runs the Bank, It Can Replace the Card
August 14, 2026  |  Opinion

Success with agentic AI will depend on how well banks redesign their operational foundations, Thales Head of AI-Driven Operations Platform Amélie Tournant Fourel writes in a...

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Younger Members Push Credit Unions Toward Crypto Services
Younger Members Push Credit Unions Toward Crypto Services
August 14, 2026  |  Credit Unions

Crypto has a funny way of arriving before the meeting agenda catches up. Many credit union members have already made room for it, even as...

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Figure’s Blockchain Marketplace Tops $1 Billion Weekly Loan Applications After Record Q2
Figure’s Blockchain Marketplace Tops $1 Billion Weekly Loan Applications After Record Q2
August 13, 2026  |  Earnings

Blockchain-native capital marketplace Figure Technology Solutions saw its Consumer Loan Marketplace volume leap 132% to $4.3 billion in the second quarter as both prospects and...

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Citi Plans to Acquire Kard to Deliver More Personalized Rewards
Citi Plans to Acquire Kard to Deliver More Personalized Rewards
August 13, 2026  |  Acquiring

Citi’s U.S. Consumer Cards business plans to expand its customer engagement and commerce media capabilities by acquiring Kard Financial, a commerce media and rewards platform for...

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AI Just Got Its First 24/7 TV Channel
AI Just Got Its First 24/7 TV Channel
August 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Fairground AI Creator TV is a channel that runs entirely artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video 24 hours a day, seven days a week, interrupted only by...

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Chime Weighs Adding Stablecoin Wallet to Consumer Banking App
Chime Weighs Adding Stablecoin Wallet to Consumer Banking App
August 13, 2026  |  Blockchain

Chime Financial is considering adding stablecoins as a feature in its consumer banking app, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full...

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Databricks Raises $5 Billion to Expand Enterprise AI Agent Platform
Databricks Raises $5 Billion to Expand Enterprise AI Agent Platform
August 13, 2026  |  Investments

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks raised $5 billion in a strategic funding round at a $190 billion valuation, the firm said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) press...

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