Big Tech Compliance

Nuvei has secured a license to offer local merchant payments services in South Africa, the global FinTech company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. The authorization came from the ...

Square introduced a new flagship self-service kiosk that features artificial intelligence-powered software, voice capabilities and a large touch display, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. Designed for ...

Watch more: Need to Know | Sofi Tech Solutions | Prashant Shah Speed and simplicity helped FinTechs establish themselves as alternatives to traditional financial institutions. Those qualities carry less weight as competitive ...

A FinTech that wants to sell to 10 credit unions can face 10 separate onboarding processes. For a market made up of thousands of individual institutions, that repetition can affect ...

Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with ...

FinTech Bakkt turned to Thredd to launch a card-as-a-service program in the United States designed to settle in stablecoins, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 13) press release. The partnership will see ...

An unidentified hacking group, or several of them, wrought havoc across hundreds of European supermarkets this week. The root cause of the fiasco wasn’t stolen customer data. It was temperature ...

Federal financial regulators have clarified that banks and credit unions can use government-issued digital credentials to verify customers’ identities, potentially streamlining account onboarding. But according to an analysis by Anderson ...

PayJoy, a financial service provider for underserved consumers in emerging markets, has acquired Mexican FinTech Finia. The deal is designed to let PayJoy apply Finia’s technology and expertise to its platform, enhancing ...

FinTech company Upgrade aims to establish a Nevada-chartered industrial loan bank, saying in a Monday (Oct. 12) press release that this would complement the company’s existing relationships with bank partners ...

When a personal artificial intelligence agent makes a purchase or fixes a problem for someone, it often signs in as that customer and clicks through pages built for people, according ...

Vertical software as a service has generally benefited from specialization. A restaurant platform can be designed around menus, kitchens, ordering and tips. Retail software tracks merchandise, inventory and checkout. Fuel systems ...

Compliance remains labor-intensive for financial institutions, which must satisfy multiple regulators and meet extensive documentation requirements. Leela is built to perform much of that work rather than simply provide information. ...

Ramp has reportedly reached a $60 billion valuation with its newest funding round. That’s according to a report Friday (Oct. 9) by Bloomberg News, citing sources familiar with the matter. They ...

American third-quarter corporate earnings are reportedly set to jump on the strength of artificial intelligence. That’s according to a report Friday (Oct. 9) by Reuters, which noted that investors are both ...

Enterprise fraud and white-collar crime’s biggest shift over the past two years is less about the technology criminals use than the number of systems they can exploit. Across 24 months’ worth ...

The White House announced Thursday (Oct. 8) that 11 companies have committed a total of $2.4 billion in artificial intelligence, which the administration dubs “super intelligence,” to support federal agencies ...

Spotify launched a site called Spotify Technology that is designed to open the streaming audio company’s technology to outside research and development organizations, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 7) company ...

Wise is reportedly negotiating a settlement after a software glitch affected thousands of customers’ tax statements. The money transfer app this week contacted roughly 4,000 U.K. users of its Wise Asset ...

A bank can monitor a login, score a transaction and flag unusual account activity. It can’t see the text message that convinced its customer to send the money, which is ...

Microsoft is ready to unveil a Nvidia-powered laptop as it works to make Windows a platform for artificial intelligence agents, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 7). Microsoft is trying to show that ...

Credit unions deciding where to put their next technology dollar are getting a different answer from consumers than they might expect. The PYMNTS Intelligence playbook “Credit Union Innovation Readiness: The Rewards ...

Conventional wisdom says large corporations should dominate cross-border payments. They have global banks, treasury teams, negotiated FX rates, sophisticated treasury management system (TMS) platforms and local accounts. But the 2026 payments ...

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Decade’s Vitor Olivier Vitor Olivier spent years building the infrastructure behind Nubank, the Brazilian digital bank that gave roughly 100 million people a cheaper, simpler way ...

Twenty-seven nations are likely to come up with 27 different definitions of vendor risk. The European Union’s member nations are finding that out in real time. And while the long-standing debate ...

Digital platforms spread technology and product development across millions of customers, a model that makes adding another market attractive. However, international expansion brings more local infrastructure with it: licenses, regulated ...

The Brink’s Company agreed to propose divesting its ATM-related product and service businesses, NoteMachine/TestLink UK, in connection with a United Kingdom regulator’s review of its previously announced agreement to acquire ...

Calls to regulate artificial intelligence have grown louder this year, including from inside the industry. The White House answered Tuesday (Sept. 29) with a pact that leaves the policing to ...

U.K. FinTech Zilch is reportedly in discussions with banks as it prepares to go public. The company, whose offerings include buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans, is looking to list on ...

Restaurant and retail digital technology platform Toast debuted Toast Fuel, new capabilities for gas stations and convenience stores, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 29) press release. Toast Fuel gives operators a ...

A federal jury has awarded headphone maker Taction a record $5.7 billion in its patent lawsuit against Apple. As Reuters reported Friday (Sept. 25), jurors found that Apple’s Taptic Engine, used ...

Brazilian digital bank Nubank is reportedly interested in buying U.K. FinTech Monzo. Such a deal would value Mozno at up to £10 billion ($13.2 billion), the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday ...

Artificial intelligence infrastructure spending by the five largest U.S. hyperscalers will reach $1.2 trillion in 2027, up from $800 billion this year, Goldman Sachs Group strategists said, according to a ...

A group of artificial intelligence developers is working toward an industry safety standards body just as world leaders press for international supervision of the most powerful models. The parallel efforts agree ...

State financial regulators are beginning to define what artificial intelligence oversight looks like inside banks and FinTech companies, even without a comprehensive federal rule governing the technology’s use across financial ...

The founders of open banking platform Tink have launched a new compliance platform. Freda, which came out of stealth Wednesday (Sept. 23), has its roots in what its founders saw at their former ...

Revolut and Nubank, the world’s two most-valued digital banks, want to conquer the United States, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (Sept. 23). Both companies obtained conditional approval for U.S. banking charters ...

Accounts payable technology is being judged on how well it connects to the systems businesses already use, giving developers, IT teams and implementation specialists a larger role in payment-platform decisions. The ...

Apple is developing a new health and fitness tracker in response to the growing popularity of Whoop’s wrist-worn device and Oura’s smart ring, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22), citing unnamed ...

Payments FinTech Adyen hired Klarna Chief Financial Officer Niclas Neglen as its new CFO, effective Feb. 1, 2027, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 22) press release. Neglen is expected to start ...

Monzo’s European CEO is reportedly leaving to launch a robotics-focused startup for people with disabilities. Michael Carney is stepping down from the U.K. neobank, where he has served as European Union ...

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz launched an alternative school for rising tech talent, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). The idea is to keep budding entrepreneurs from dropping out ...

Walmart-backed consumer FinTech OnePay is now offering banking for families and teenagers. The company’s new banking program for children ages 13 to 17 features savings, checking, investing and credit builder services, according to ...

Employees at insurance broker MRH Trowe wanted artificial intelligence to help with their daily work. Teams started trying AI tools on their own. That created a risk for the company. ...

The most important benchmark for the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence isn’t arising around the model’s intelligence. Instead, the most important benchmark is around a model’s data retention policies. That ...