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Ford paid $2 billion in tariffs in 2025 and expects to spend about the same amount in...

While much of the Big Tech narrative continues to revolve around chips and compute...

The United Kingdom’s financial watchdog announced its new protections for buy now, pay later...

Vega Security raised $120 million in a Series B funding round to expand its...

The 21st century retail battle is no longer being waged primarily over assortment, price,...

Tether invested in LayerZero Labs, the development company behind an interoperability protocol. Get the...

Fiserv is touting the results of its “OneFiserv” plan after a rocky quarter late...

Curql, a collective of more than 160 credit unions that jointly invest in FinTech,...

Europe’s Parliament has reportedly given its first major endorsement of the digital euro. Get...

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has reportedly fired its chief financial officer. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Blockchain.com received regulatory approval from the government in the United Kingdom. Get the Full...

Bank charters represent the operating system (OS) for the U.S. financial sector. Get the...

Mastercard and eCommerce enabler Bosta are partnering to support small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs)...

Amazon is in discussions with publishing executives about launching a marketplace that would allow...

Prediction market Kalshi recorded $1 billion-plus in trading volume on Super Bowl Sunday. Get the Full...

Bretton AI rebranded from Greenlite AI and raised $75 million in a Series B...

Flat retail sales at year end ran counter to the growth momentum many analysts...

Amsterdam-based cloud computing company Nebius is acquiring agentic search provider Tavily. Get the Full...

Is payments FinTech Stripe on its way to becoming a $140 billion company? Get...

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to power...

The insurance sector is colliding with a new customer rhythm. People can move money...

Pay by bank’s practical test has been whether it can scale beyond utilities, gaming...

Square has brought its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to the U.K. Get the Full...

Late payments continue to challenge the construction industry, creating ripple effects that touch contractors,...

For many merchants, payments orchestration was long treated as a necessary but largely invisible...

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Despite high-profile demos from the likes of xAI and AWS and aggressive corporate roadmaps,...

Consumers who pay the most for their credit cards turn out to be the...

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Card issuance has become one of the most direct ways for FinTechs to embed...

A downturn in the software and technology sectors could have an impact that rivals...

Tax season officially began on Jan. 26, and refunds are already starting to reach...

Despite the sudden surge of enterprise interest in stablecoins, it was the tokenization of...

MrBeast is deepening his involvement in the financial services sector. Get the Full Story Complete...

Autodesk sued Google on Friday (Feb. 6), alleging that the tech giant infringed on...

OpenAI says autonomous agents must be governed and organized more like human workers than...

Poland-based parcel locker company InPost has been sold for $9.2 billion (7.8 billion euros). Get the...

Logistics company Gather AI has raised $40 million in new funding. Get the Full...

Databricks has seen its valuation more than double in 13 months to $134 billion....

Households’ perceptions of inflation and the labor market improved slightly in January, the Federal...

An overload of customer requests has reportedly led Alibaba’s AI chatbot to pause issuing coupons....

The idea of a bank-issued digital asset was once an oxymoron. Today, it’s one...

Venture capital continued to flow into the artificial intelligence (AI) sector in early February,...

Crypto venture capital funds are shifting their focus to other opportunities, including stablecoin infrastructure,...

Ripple launched a pair of partnerships to boost the capabilities of its custody business....

South Korea plans to step up its regulation of digital assets after cryptocurrency exchange...

U.K. banking giant NatWest is acquiring wealth manager Evelyn Partners for 2.7 billion pounds (approximately $3.6 billion)....

Toyota’s next CEO isn’t an engineer, a product visionary or a car guy. Get...

The Middle East is proving itself as fertile ground for FinTech investment and innovation....

Grocery giant Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its new CEO. Get...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clarified Friday (Feb. 6) that national trust banks...

Uber is expanding its payments partnership with FinTech platform Adyen. Get the Full Story...

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more intertwined with daily life and decision-making, a...

European competition regulators say Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant policy violates antitrust regulations. Get the...

Is Europe too reliant on international payments companies such as Visa and Mastercard? Get...

“I think [our] arrogance and disruption got us into trouble,” Scott Painter tells PYMNTS...

What began as a checkout convenience for sneakers and sofas is now threading its...

“FinTechs Tap Embedded Payments to Deepen Customer Relationships” finds that embedded finance has become...

Regulators in China have expanded their cryptocurrency crackdown to cover stablecoins and tokenized assets....

A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange is facing regulatory investigation following a $40 billion bitcoin-related...

Anthropic is reportedly close to finalizing a $20 billion-plus funding round. Get the Full...

Startup-focused lender Erebor has become the first bank chartered under the second Trump administration....

Anthropic is reportedly spending millions on a Super Bowl ad criticizing rival OpenAI. Get...

China is reportedly stepping up efforts to gain dominance in the humanoid robotics space....

Banks are reportedly shortening the marketing period for European-based initial public offerings (IPOs). Get...

After almost four years, Wells Fargo’s relationship with Bilt is winding down.  Get the...

Payments company Block is reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 10% of its staff....

There’s a special look kids give a floppy disk. They turn it over, tap...

Virgin Media O2, a leading mobile provider in the United Kingdom, has partnered with flexible...

AutoNation saw a year-over-year decline in vehicle sales during the fourth quarter due to...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is also entering the race at the 2026 Winter Olympics in...

Apple plans to allow other companies’ voice-controlled artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to operate within...

The Home Depot has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature that helps professional renovators,...

The Federal Reserve’s latest consumer credit data points to a familiar seasonal pattern, with...

Businesses and workers have different views of the economy, Federal Reserve Bank of San...

Goldman Sachs is deploying autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents built with Anthropic’s Claude model...

Enterprise software has spent the past decade promising transformation while mostly delivering optimization. But...

The latest consumer confidence data points to a public that is cautiously recalibrating expectations...

When SoftBank Group reports its third-quarter earnings results Thursday (Feb. 12), it may reveal whether it is considering...

New tax laws around research and capital investment reduced Amazon’s U.S. corporate income taxes by...

The cryptocurrency market’s familiar boom-and-bust cycle has entered another pronounced downswing. Capital is leaving...

Wage growth for middle-income households showed some weakness in January, while that of lower-...

Apple Inc. is scaling back plans for an AI-based health coach, a retreat that...

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Not long ago, FinTechs and credit unions often approached each other from opposite sides...

Business uncertainty is shifting in unexpected ways. Goods-producing firms now face higher uncertainty than...

For many small businesses, the most important payment is no longer the one they...

Adaptability is a key competitive advantage in the evolving payments industry, Paysafe CEO Bruce Lowthers...

The artificial intelligence story used to center on how many people have tried ChatGPT...

Businesses and their accountants continued to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) agents and other digital...