Atom Bank will work alongside Credit Kudos to further boost open data capabilities for business loan affordability assessments, with the intent of delivering more than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) in lending in the next two years, according to a press release. Get the Full...
Select cinemas in San Francisco and New York City, two of the nation’s largest box-office markets, are set to open during the weekend. However, the two cities are mandating that cinemas limit attendance to 25 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported. Get the Full Story...
Online events provider Looped has raised $7.7 million in a seed funding round for its interactive virtual venue platform, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Amid a great deal of uncertainty about future state and U.S. guidelines for reopening, businesses now face the prospect of organizing, buying and hiring for the coming summer, The Wall Street Journal reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
It was a little too much to hope that the world would somehow magically revert back to the way things were a year ago when the clock struck 12 on New Year’s and 2021 kicked off. But slowly but surely the year-long COVID-caused hibernation has...
In today’s top news, Chinese regulators have instructed banks to scale back loan amounts in 2021, and Plaid launched a new income verification tool. Plus, Amazon Alexa can now give users their health data from the fitness tracker Halo. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Albertsons, the country’s second-largest grocery store chain, is partnering with automated logistics startup Tortoise to pilot the beta launch of a robotic fleet of Safeway delivery carts in the towns of Tracy and Windsor in Northern California. Albertsons acquired Safeway in a $9.2 billion merger...
Another week in payments ends, and per usual, there’s no shortage of things to discuss as vaccines go out, the road to recovery begins to widen and major players look to position and pivot to prepare for what’s next. It all adds up to a...
Supermarket chain Safeway will pilot remote-controlled, driverless carts to deliver grocery orders to neighborhood homes, Safeway’s parent company Albertsons Companies announced on Friday (March 5). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
