Big Tech Compliance

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 ...

In an ocean of artificial intelligence (AI)-related angst, Apple is reportedly offering investors a life preserver. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Feb. 18) from Bloomberg News, which pointed out that ...

Mobile communications and connectivity company Ericsson launched a money movement partnership with Mastercard, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 18) press release. The collaboration combines Ericsson’s mobile financial services platform with the ...

Apple is accelerating its development of three artificial intelligence (AI)-powered wearable devices: smart glasses, a pendant and AirPods, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Feb. 17), citing unnamed sources. The three devices will be ...

For roughly 20 years, enterprise software companies have optimized around seats. Add users, grow annual recurring revenue and expand multiples. That model powered the rise of Salesforce, ServiceNow and hundreds of software-as-a-service ...

Artificial intelligence may transform the American workplace by enhancing how employees perform complex tasks rather than replacing employees, Federal Reserve Governor Michael S. Barr said Monday (Feb. 17). In a speech ...

Global FinTech company OwlTing is preparing to launch a mobile app designed to facilitate remittances sent from the United States. The company submitted the OwlPay Cash app for review by the ...

Activist investor Jana Partners has reportedly purchased a stake in payments company Fiserv. Now, Jana is campaigning for changes to boost Fiserv’s underperforming stock, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Feb. 17), citing ...

While cross-border trade itself remains in a period of upheaval, the global payment options supporting cross-border commerce have never been more advanced and innovative. While FinTechs have redefined speed and usability, ...

Amazon and Microsoft are reportedly pushing into a new part of the AI world: arranging deals with news publishers. That’s according to a report Monday (Feb. 16) from the Wall Street ...

Embedded finance has evolved beyond a supplementary revenue channel to become the deciding factor between companies that forge lasting customer relationships and those that fall behind, according to new research ...

Is artificial intelligence going to disrupt broad swaths of the economy? Or are tech giants like Amazon, Google and Meta funneling hundreds of billions into the sector with no sign ...

Defense technology startup Shield AI is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $11 billion, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. ...

The consumer in the United States is no longer one market. It’s two. And corporate earnings calls are increasingly where the split shows up first. On one side are premium brands ...

As counterintuitive as it sounds, businesses have typically moved forward by looking backward. The reason for this was the humble, and all too frequently monolithic, enterprise resource planning system (ERP). These ...

Money mobility solutions provider Ingo Payments partnered with money transfer FinTech Elektra USA. The collaboration is designed to let Elektra’s customers in the United States, members of the Hispanic community in ...

Apptronik has raised $520 million as it prepares to launch a new humanoid robot. The Austin-based company announced its Series A-X funding round Wednesday (Feb. 11), with investors including Google and ...

Bretton AI rebranded from Greenlite AI and raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to expand the deployment of artificial intelligence across financial crime operations in regulated financial ...

Is payments FinTech Stripe on its way to becoming a $140 billion company? A report Tuesday (Feb. 11) by Bloomberg News, citing a source familiar with the matter, says the firm ...

Brazilian FinTech AGI, or Agibank, lowered the size and price range of its U.S. initial public offering (IPO). After saying in a Jan. 29 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

A downturn in the software and technology sectors could have an impact that rivals that of the energy sector’s issues in 2016, Bloomberg reported Monday (Feb. 9), citing Deutsche Bank analysts. The analysts highlighted concentration ...

Experian now offers consumers a high-yield digital savings account. Available to consumers who have a paid membership with the company, the new Experian Smart Money Digital Savings Account currently offers variable ...

Artificial intelligence companies rarely dominate the Super Bowl advertising narrative, but this year’s game marked a turning point as AI firms moved into the spotlight. The move turned one of the ...

The Middle East is proving itself as fertile ground for FinTech investment and innovation. The region combines high smartphone penetration, young demographics and state-backed modernization of payment rails. Governments across the ...

Uber is expanding its payments partnership with FinTech platform Adyen. “The expanded partnership reflects Uber’s growing use of Adyen’s global payments platform to enhance performance and offer more alternative payment methods ...

Watch more: Visa Protect With Visa’s Jeremiah Dewey  The word “cybersecurity” can imply a defensive, even reactive discipline. But effective cybersecurity has never truly been either of those things, and as fraud ...

There’s a special look kids give a floppy disk. They turn it over, tap the little metal shutter, and then ask, politely but devastatingly: “So where do you plug in ...

Goldman Sachs is deploying autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents built with Anthropic’s Claude model to automate core accounting, compliance and operational finance functions, according to a Friday (Feb. 6) report ...

Not long ago, FinTechs and credit unions often approached each other from opposite sides of the same market. Today, they increasingly meet in the middle, trading rivalry for collaboration as both ...

Compliance/identity platform Duna has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round. The new funding, announced Thursday (Feb. 5), will help Duna as it works towards its goal of building ...

Target’s new CEO, Michael Fiddelke, said Wednesday (Feb. 4) during a company town hall event that he aims to improve the retailer’s merchandise, in-store experiences and technology, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Fiddelke, a ...

Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs secured $70 million in a Series C funding round, propelling the company to a $1 billion valuation, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 4) press release. The ...

Software as a service once promised a steady rhythm of recurring subscriptions, predictable upgrades and incremental productivity gains. That rhythm has been thrown off kilter as artificial intelligence begins to alter ...

Smith Corona was once the king of written communications. For most of the twentieth century, the sound of work and study in America was the clickety‑clack of typewriter keys in offices, ...

From virtual doctor visits to scheduling apps and health trackers, consumers are steadily integrating technology into how they manage healthcare. However, adoption is unfolding unevenly across age groups, creating what the ...

SoFi’s platform strategy was a centerpiece of fourth-quarter earnings on Friday (Jan. 30): Bring in members, persuade them to adopt multiple products, and let lending, payments and technology revenue compound. The ...

Walmart-backed FinTech OnePay has debuted a feature letting customers file their taxes through its app. The new service, announced Wednesday (Jan. 28), is being offered in partnership with embedded tax technology platform april, and ...

Brazilian FinTech PicPay has raised $434 million in its U.S. initial public offering. The company announced Wednesday (Jan. 28) evening that it had sold 22.8 million shares at $19 each, the ...

As the first major technology companies prepare to report earnings later today (Jan. 28), attention is shifting from how much Big Tech is spending on artificial intelligence (AI) to whether ...

This week’s tech news shows artificial intelligence (AI) moving deeper into climate forecasting, search, and the public sector. Nvidia Opens Weather AI Nvidia this week announced Earth-2, a groundbreaking suite of open, ...

Today’s digital-first shoppers are happy to let artificial intelligence lend an electronic hand as they shop online for everything from clothing to groceries. However, most are nowhere close to handing over ...