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Acquiring
Cross River Plans to Buy Accrue to Merge Payments With Loyalty
October 20, 2026

Cross River Bank plans to add branded wallet, stored value and loyalty rewards technology to its regulated financial infrastructure by acquiring FinTech company Accrue, Cross River said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release emailed to PYMNTS. Cross River’s parent company, CRB Group, has entered into an...

B2B Payments
Axya’s $12 Million Bet on Fixing Procurement’s Broken Data
October 20, 2026

Watch more: Digital Shift With Félix Bélisle-Dockrill of Axya A supplier promises to deliver parts on the 18th of the month. The shipment gets pushed to the 25th. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system updates the expected delivery date, and when the goods finally arrive,...

Artificial Intelligence
AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%
October 19, 2026

Issuing a bank guarantee at a large commodity trader is still a desk job. A treasury employee checks how much room is left on a credit facility, pulls the banking details from one system, confirms the limits in another and keys the transaction into a...

Retail
Analysts Expect Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Debut at Apple’s Oct. 28 Event
October 19, 2026

Apple will host a product launch event dubbed “Pro and tell” on Oct. 28, and analysts expect the company to introduce its first touch-screen MacBook Pro, according to multiple media reports. Greg Joswiak, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, said in a Monday (Oct....

Banking
Kansas City Fed Flags Funding Challenges From Tokenized Deposits
October 19, 2026

Banks are developing tokenized deposits to give corporate customers faster access to their money. In doing so, they are making the deposits they use for funding easier to move. A research briefing from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City published Friday (Oct. 16) examined...

Cross-border Payments
Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year
October 19, 2026

Users of Relay’s small business banking and money management platform have sent over $500 million in cross-border payments through Nium’s global money movement platform since the companies launched their partnership about a year ago, according to a Monday (Oct. 19) press release. The users sent...

Artificial Intelligence
Character.ai Bankruptcy Exposes the High Cost of AI Companionship
October 19, 2026

Character.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) companion platform that lets users chat with AI versions of their favorite characters, filed for Chapter 11 on Oct. 12. About 12 million monthly users could not make it profitable. The company was losing $8 million to $9 million a...

Artificial Intelligence
Circle and Proof Help Businesses Trust AI Agent Transactions
October 19, 2026

Proof and Circle Internet Group said Monday (Oct. 19) that they will demonstrate at Money20/20 how open identity and payment protocols can work together to enable businesses to trust transactions made by agents. The companies’ demo will include an artificial intelligence agent presenting a Proof...

B2B Payments
Square Shifts Business Credit Cards to Marqeta Platform to Speed Credit Innovation
October 19, 2026

Square has consolidated its credit and debit programs on Marqeta’s card issuing platform, saying this will enable the company to bring new credit features to market more quickly. With this move, Square migrated its Square Credit Card to Marqeta, which already enables Square’s debit and prepaid programs, the companies...