Big Tech Compliance

FedEx aims to have artificial intelligence agents participating in more than half of its core operational workflows by 2028, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (March 13). “Every employee and every ...

Amazon Web Services, Nvidia and MassRobotics have named nine startups for the 2026 cohort of the Physical AI Fellowship, highlighting the growing push to develop artificial intelligence systems that operate ...

FinTech Wizz Financial achieved a company milestone for cross-border transactions, according to a Thursday (March 12) press release. Wizz completed its first stablecoin-powered cross-border remittance and treasury transaction originating from the ...

Revolut’s long journey to obtaining a U.K. banking license has reached its end. The London-based FinTech announced Wednesday (March 11) that it had landed regulatory approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to launch as a ...

Thredd is working with Cross River Bank to help international FinTechs enter the U.S. The collaboration makes Thredd one of Cross River’s strategic processing partners outside of the bank’s own stack, the companies said ...

Digital lender Upstart has become the latest U.S. FinTech seeking a banking charter. The company announced Tuesday (March 10) that it had applied to federal banking regulators the Office of the ...

Traditional enterprise software wasn’t designed for artificial intelligence (AI) agents, which interpret prompts, cross systems, retrieve data and act autonomously—unlike older, rules-based applications. This difference brings new governance challenges as companies ...

Priority Technology Holdings saw growth across its three segments in the fourth quarter as customers sought the payments and treasury solutions delivered by its connected commerce engine, Priority Chairman and ...

FinTech Propel Holdings debuted FreshLine, an unsecured personal line-of-credit offering, according to a Tuesday (March 10) press release. The Toronto-based company also received a $150 million commitment to support FreshLine’s launch ...

Financial crime and compliance platform Sigma360 has raised $17.3 million in new funding. The company says its Series B round, announced Tuesday (March 10), will help it strengthen its risk intelligence datasets, deepen its artificial ...

The financial industry in the United States rests in part on an architecture of trust and institutional legitimacy. Access to the Federal Reserve’s infrastructure has long been viewed as the ultimate ...

Issuer processing platform Thredd has named a new chief technology officer (CTO). Marilyn McDonald will join the company following senior positions that offered “global transformation experience” at the likes of Citigroup, Mastercard, Expedia and StubHub, Thredd said in a ...

  In the early days of the internet, networks did not naturally speak to one another. Standards had to emerge, trust had to be layered on top of open protocols and institutions ...

Stablecoins can no longer be viewed as a single product category. Recent developments point to their emergence as the foundation for a multi-layered infrastructure system, similar to the early architecture ...

Bank executives appearing before a House Financial Services subcommittee Thursday (March 5) delivered a blunt message. Financial fraud has become more sophisticated, more coordinated and more difficult to contain, even as ...

Private credit has evolved from a niche financing tool to a fixture of modern capital markets, and as it expands, banks, regulators and investors are taking a closer look at ...

Credit unions once treated FinTech partnerships as selective experiments. They now regard them as a primary channel for advancing innovation. Why Partnerships Have Moved to the Center The latest Credit Union Innovation ...

Apple unveiled a new laptop Wednesday (March 4) that it said offers the Mac experience at a “breakthrough price” that starts at $599 for consumers and $499 for students. The MacBook Neo features ...

Indian payments platform PhonePe reportedly hopes to go public at a valuation of $9 billion to $10.5 billion. This indicates that the Walmart-backed company will raise around $900 million to $1.05 ...

There’s an affordability crisis rocking households in the United States. Housing, insurance, healthcare, childcare, transportation and other categories once expected to scale gradually with income have instead shifted upward in step ...

Embedded finance has shifted from a differentiator to a baseline capability across the FinTech sector. Every financial technology firm surveyed reports offering at least one embedded finance feature, as we’ve ...

The artificial intelligence industry is causing a shortage of memory chips needed by the smartphone industry even as AI features become part of the latest mobile devices, Bloomberg News reported ...

Pluvo raised $5 million in a seed round to scale its artificial intelligence-native financial analysis platform for finance teams. The company’s platform delivers analysis that chief financial officers and financial planning ...

FinTech company Avant closed a $200 million personal loan securitization that it said it expects to provide over $500 million in financing capacity over its 24-month life. The transaction also marks ...

AT&T boosted the efficiency of its internal Ask AT&T personal assistant by reworking the orchestration layer and shifting more of the work from large language models (LLMs) to small language ...

Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said the industry is decades away from developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). In an interview with Fast Company posted Friday (Feb. 27), Ng said he defines ...

Sezzle is accelerating its super app plans in 2026 after seeing growing engagement with its existing offerings in 2025, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 25) press release. During the ...

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 redesign the system itself. According to ...

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 end, bolt middleware onto aging ...

Several banks are testing the use of agentic artificial intelligence to boost the efficiency of their systems for monitoring trading and spotting potential misconduct, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Feb. 25). Deutsche ...

Cross-border payment FinTech Payoneer applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a digital bank, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 24) press release. PAYO Digital Bank, N.A., ...

India-based cross-border payments company Xflow raised $16.6 million in new funding. “This milestone strengthens our mission to simplify cross-border payments for Indian exporters,” the company said in announcing its Series A ...

Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer designed to provide liquidity to current and former employees, the programmable financial services company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 24) ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With The Clearing House’s Sal Karakaplan A single word rarely captures the trajectory of an entire industry. Yet during periods of structural change, language often ...

Uber has debuted Autonomous Solutions, a suite of services and capabilities designed for autonomous vehicles. These capabilities have already begun helping partners build and commercialize autonomous vehicles (AVs) in markets worldwide, Uber ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Serena Smith of i2c  As the payments industry moves deeper into 2026, executives are confronting a widening gap between innovation and coherence. New rails ...

For the last two years, enterprise artificial intelligence has been stuck in the assistant phase, a world of smarter emails and faster document summaries that boosted individual productivity but left ...

For all the attention stablecoins have received in policy debates and crypto market cycles, they still remain mostly absent from most people’s daily financial lives. Particularly across the world’s major ...

Logistics is moving from a game of scale to one of smarts. As global trade shifts under the weight of ongoing uncertainty and geopolitical strain, knowing where goods are, what condition ...

A FinTech can launch a polished banking app in months, but becoming a bank can take years. The difference isn’t marketing. It’s legal authority. It’s also one of the hottest financial stories ...

Meta has reportedly resurrected its smartwatch project, aiming to release the device this year. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Feb. 19) from The Information, which notes that the company’s efforts are happening as ...

Stablecoins are often portrayed as a triumph of blockchain innovation, but behind the scenes they can frequently run on conventional infrastructure. It may come as a surprise to corporate leaders weighing ...

Hype can go hand in hand with immediacy. Since artificial intelligence first went mainstream, the innovation has been framed as having an immediate impact. As a result, the goals for enterprise buyers ...

Watch more: TechReg Talks With Nixon Peabody’s Andrew Glass and Gregory Blase For years, getting a bank charter was something only traditional financial institutions worried about. That’s changing fast. A growing number of ...

The fastest way to spot where agentic artificial intelligence will land next is to watch the technology sector, where it is already being built and tested. Inside tech, familiarity is translating ...