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New Year’s Eve is supposed to be a clean break. A fresh calendar. A...

Three former executives involved with bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX have agreed to final judgments from...

Customers of Abu Dhabi-based real estate developer, manager and investor Aldar will be able to pay...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) have new...

A bill introduced in the United States Senate would create a federal task force...

Health systems are turning to artificial intelligence as rising complexity and labor pressures demand...

Merchants across the Middle East and Africa can now connect to Mastercard’s portfolio of...

If stablecoins finally had their moment during 2025, it wasn’t the moment most crypto...

Coinbase filed lawsuits in Connecticut, Michigan and Illinois, challenging each state’s efforts to control...

BNP Paribas has rolled out an internal artificial intelligence (AI) portal designed to speed...

Coinbase launched a program that helps businesses create their own stablecoins, and, in a separate...

Consumers are increasingly comfortable completing purchases directly inside artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, signaling a...

FinTech company Mercury has applied for a national bank charter with the Office of...

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said rule changes that will take effect...

DraftKings entered prediction markets with the launch of DraftKings Predictions, a standalone app and...

When times get tough, payments need to get easier. That was the case in...

A defense spending bill signed into law Thursday (Dec. 18) by President Donald Trump...

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It’s a turbulent landscape out there for B2B enterprises. And B2B platforms have a...

Rising prices are reshaping not just household budgets but the financial relationship between generations....

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Retailers are no longer treating embedded finance as a checkout enhancement. The data show...

The December 2025 update of the “Wage to Wallet™ Index” reveals an economy that is...

TikTok and parent company ByteDance have signed agreements with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture...

Financial services platform OnePay has joined Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), saying it will help make agentic payments more secure, transparent and useful....

Consumers have spent over $3 billion in OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile app in the roughly 31 months since the app was launched. Get...

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Twenty-four organizations have either expressed interest in or are already participating in projects related...

Colgate-Palmolive is pushing enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) beyond chatbots, moving into agentic systems, internal...

OpenAI opened its ChatGPT App Directory on Wednesday (Dec. 17), which is a marketplace...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency terminated a July 2024 amendment to...

PayPal is reportedly extending the role of its stablecoin into artificial intelligence finance. Get...

Mastercard, BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are all players in a new blockchain adoption promotion effort. Get the Full...

Consumers are increasingly open to letting artificial intelligence (AI) move beyond answering questions and...

Instacart agreed to pay $60 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that...

Coinbase has become the latest financial platform to enter the prediction market game. Get the...

Cryptocurrency solutions company Ripple says it has expanded its partnership with broker-dealer TJM Investments....

Amazon Business is offering new benefits to members of its Business Prime program. Get the...

Alternative asset manager Blackstone is reportedly in talks to offer its funds through FinTech...

Cryptocurrency thefts crept up this year amid a rise in hacks from North Korea....

OpenAI announced on Wednesday (Dec. 17) the launch of OpenAI Academy for News Organizations,...

OpenAI reportedly aims to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of...

Among retail’s most dominant themes in 2025 was that the next era of competition...

Personal finance firm SoFi has launched SoFiUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin. Get the Full Story Complete...

Credit union service organization (CUSO) Velera appointed Todd Lane, president and CEO of California...

UPS-owned reverse logistics company Happy Returns reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence to combat...

Bitso Business’s stablecoin-powered payments platform is on track to process $82 billion in annualized...

Wall Street began the year hopeful that 2025 would usher in a wave of...

After weeks of a government shutdown, economic data continue to roll in, and the...

The story of enterprise transformation in 2025 wasn’t just about technology but about who...

Visa is on track to offer artificial intelligence-enabled commerce to consumers within months and...

OpenAI has reportedly made deep inroads with American colleges. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a default tool at work because it is delivering...

Meta’s chief AI scientist is reportedly in early talks to raise $585 million for...

Federal regulators are reportedly investigating Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. Get the Full...

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When one thinks of fast payments, manufacturing isn’t the first sector to come to...

Artificial intelligence is changing jobs faster than companies can reorganize them, and a new...

Credit unions (CUs) are entering a pivotal moment in their modernization journey. Member expectations...

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A growing number of consumers will be able to shop for groceries in OpenAI’s...

The Federal Reserve Board said Wednesday (Dec. 17) that it withdrew a 2023 policy...

Fiserv completed its acquisition of StoneCastle Cash Management and will integrate the company’s institutional deposit network...

Caroline D. Pham, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will join crypto payments company MoonPay as...

Big Tech’s artificial intelligence (AI) push is accelerating on multiple fronts, from productivity agents...

Google launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) model called Gemini 3 Flash on Wednesday...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to...

Mastercard and Interchecks have partnered to expand the adoption of account-to-account (A2A) payments. Get...

Amazon has formed a new organization that will bring together its artificial intelligence (AI)...

Co-branded credit card startup Imprint is now a billion-dollar company. Get the Full Story...

Digital analytics platform Contentsquare has launched a new partnership with Shopify. Get the Full...

Revenue platform Sequence has secured $20 million in new funding. Get the Full Story...

Cryptocurrency industry leaders and lobbyists are reportedly meeting with Sen. Tim Scott of South...

There’s a growing divide at the center of the digital asset universe, and it’s...

Speaking at a recent financial conference, American Express’ CEO offered a blunt opinion on surcharges....

DoorDash rolled out Zesty, an AI-powered mobile app designed not for ordering food but...

Nuvei received approval to operate under the European Union’s new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency....

The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to make its last-mile delivery service available to shippers...

Federal prosecutors are accusing four executives from defunct subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings of...

The British government is reportedly planning sharp funding increases for areas like artificial intelligence...

Google Pay launched a digital credit card designed for everyday transactional use in India....

Marketplace optimization platform Teikametrics has debuted an artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Artificial Retail...

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Bitcoin is on pace for the fourth annual loss in the largest cryptocurrency’s history....

It may seem counterintuitive, but forward-thinking businesses spend much of their time thinking about...

Freightos founder and CEO Zvi Schreiber has decided to step down from his role...

Robinhood is expanding its fast-growing prediction market offering with a new pro football-centered feature....

It was sort of an accident. In 1927, Time magazine was chasing an interview with Charles...

Visa and cybersecurity and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to strengthen the...

A group of shareholders in digital bank Monzo reportedly want to reinstate its outgoing...

Amazon is reportedly in discussions to invest around $10 billion in OpenAI. Get the...

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Construction timelines depend on precision, coordination and confidence, but slow payments continue to undermine...

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An attack that begins with a trusted vendor rather than a masked hacker is...

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While many sectors use AI mainly for back-office tasks, telecommunications involve live infrastructure where...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved a deposit insurance application to establish Erebor...

OpenAI has hired former U.K. Treasury chief George Osborne to lead the artificial intelligence...

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) said Tuesday (Dec. 16) that the U.S. will...