Business planning and performance management platform Pigment is worth $2.3 billion after raising $250 million in a Series E funding round, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 21) press release. The financing will help Pigment further develop its compute engine Graphite and the artificial intelligence agents...
Businesses deploying artificial intelligence face growing legal exposure when their descriptions of data practices fail to match how their systems operate. Updating privacy policies or terms of service after introducing AI features can leave companies exposed to regulatory scrutiny and customer disputes, according to an...
In the commercial payments realm, invoices need validation, discrepancies warrant resolution and someone (or an authorized system) ultimately approve the release of funds. Smart contracts are being used to carry approved payment instructions from business workflows into bank payment systems. For accounts payable and treasury...
OpenAI has launched a new partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) rival Google. This collaboration brings OpenAI’s frontier AI models and Codex agentic workflows to Google Cloud’s Model Garden, the companies announced Wednesday (Oct. 21). The integration is designed to give customers “native access” to these models to power “complex...
Visa has introduced new capabilities designed to keep commercial virtual card payments safer. Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions are part of a series of new capabilities designed to bring “trust and control” to business payments, Visa said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) news release. “Businesses are moving quickly...
J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly getting closer to obtaining a banking license in Nigeria. The largest U.S. bank has deposited 50 billion naira ($37.5 million) with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Oct. 20), citing sources familiar with the matter. The deposit,...
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Matthew J. Dowd and Judge Paul Michel Artificial intelligence is making it cheaper to invent. That doesn’t mean, however, that it’s getting any less costly today to turn an invention into a business. That distinction is emerging as a new...
Finance departments have moved quickly to put generative artificial intelligence to work. They’ve been far more cautious about letting AI act on its own. Generative AI use for cash flow management jumped from 16% in 2025 to 80% in 2026, according to PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Time...
Remember travel agents? Not the AI kind. The real people kind. For anyone under the age of 30, here’s how it worked. You walked into a little storefront with a poster of a Caribbean island in the window and sat across the desk from someone...