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For chief financial officers and treasurers, working capital is starting to look less like an operating metric and more like an investment decision. What used to be managed mainly as a ...

Dollar General’s latest quarterly earnings results, released Thursday (March 12), showed steady demand for low-priced essentials alongside a growing digital ecosystem. The retailer reported net sales of $10.9 billion for the ...

Digital assets are reshaping U.S. financial services, and their impact can be traced by the wake of new banking charter applications. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) ...

Revolut’s long journey to obtaining a U.K. banking license has reached its end. The London-based FinTech announced Wednesday (March 11) that it had landed regulatory approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to launch as a ...

Digital lender Upstart has become the latest U.S. FinTech seeking a banking charter. The company announced Tuesday (March 10) that it had applied to federal banking regulators the Office of the ...

  In the early days of the internet, networks did not naturally speak to one another. Standards had to emerge, trust had to be layered on top of open protocols and institutions ...

Revolut, the London-based global FinTech with 70 million customers, took its most decisive step yet into the American market Thursday (March 5), filing for a national bank charter with the ...

The US meatpacking industry is facing renewed scrutiny from Senate Democrats who are pushing legislation aimed at limiting the market power of large processors and tightening rules in the beef ...

Senior officials in the United States government are debating whether Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent should be permitted to retain its stakes in major video game developers as President Donald Trump ...

Samsung Electronics has rejected allegations from a subcontractor that claims it suffered financial harm after the technology company allegedly reduced contracted supply volumes during a major fifth-generation (5G) network project ...

Rising prices are reshaping not just household budgets but the financial relationship between generations. Younger and older consumers in the United States are responding to the same pressures in different ways, ...

Federal regulators are reportedly seeking information about Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand asking about its ...

Airbnb is reportedly testing a service that lets guests order groceries from Instacart. The house-sharing company will offer “kitchen stocking” as part of a three-month pilot program starting Jan. 5, Bloomberg ...

DoorDash is expanding its partnership with grocery chain Kroger to 2,700 new stores. The updated collaboration kicks off Oct. 1 and will cover deliveries of fresh foods, essential items and Kroger’s ...

On Tuesday (May 13), we may see what could arguably be the calm before a stormy sea of inflation driven by volatile tariffs. The Consumer Price Index inflation reading from the ...

Instacart has teamed with two point-of-sale (POS) providers to promote smart cart usage. The grocery technology company announced Monday (Jan. 13) new partnerships with Dumac Business Systems, a POS solutions provider ...

Inflation is at a multiyear low, according to July’s Consumer Price Index from the U.S. Department of Labor. Inflation has broken through an important psychological barrier, so to speak. The Federal ...

With order volumes increasing, Deliveroo sees opportunities from its loyalty program and grocery business. The U.K.-based delivery service on Thursday (Aug. 8) released earnings for the first half of 2024 showing ...

With ongoing financial challenges affecting consumers very differently depending on their financial standing, Kroger is seeing its initiative to improve its private-label offerings prove key to getting more budget-strapped shoppers ...

Pay later plans — those arrangements enabling consumers to cover purchases over a set period of time — are not only a popular way to shop; they have increasingly become ...

Artificial intelligence is starting to look less like a novelty and more like a new kind of personal assistant, one that people increasingly tap first when they need to do ...

In the long contest between Amazon and Walmart, strategy has rarely been static. The headlines this week show that while Walmart is investing in supply chain automation, with 23 of its ...

Dollar General’s latest quarterly earnings results, released Thursday (March 12), showed steady demand for low-priced essentials alongside a growing digital ecosystem. The retailer reported net sales of $10.9 billion for the ...

Stitch Fix used its fiscal second-quarter earnings call to highlight how artificial intelligence and data-driven personalization are reshaping the way consumers discover and purchase apparel on its platform. The company described ...

Amazon is making it easier for merchants to participate in Shop Direct, its program that helps customers find and buy products that are not sold in its own store. The company ...

Kohl’s turnaround efforts are being challenged by the continued economic pressures facing its core customers. The department store chain reported earnings Tuesday (March 10) showing net sales down 3.9% for the ...

The steady migration of consumer spending toward digital channels continued through the end of 2025, underlining the extent to which online commerce has become embedded in the broader retail economy. Estimates ...

Every day seems to bring another announcement about artificial intelligence agents that can search, compare and buy on a consumer’s behalf. The momentum is real. So is the attention. But much ...

Companies in the S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector are lagging behind other sectors in earnings due tohigh costs and soft demand, Bloomberg reported Friday (March 6). While 73% of companies across ...

Consumer spending cooled slightly in January, although strong growth in digital retail channels suggests that the broader trajectory of household consumption remains intact. Advance estimates released Friday (March 6) by the ...

The evolution of digital payments has often followed a predictable pattern. As transactions become faster and more seamless, new layers of infrastructure emerge to support them. Cloud computing, for example, enabled scalable ...

Watch more: Digital Shift With Flagright’s Madhu Nadig Scale is fast becoming a central challenge in financial crime compliance. As digital payments expand and real-time transactions accelerate, the number of alerts generated ...

The construction industry builds skylines, bridges and critical infrastructure, yet its own critical financial infrastructure often runs on outdated payment practices. Findings in the February 2026 edition of the B2B and ...

Indian payments platform PhonePe reportedly hopes to go public at a valuation of $9 billion to $10.5 billion. This indicates that the Walmart-backed company will raise around $900 million to $1.05 ...

Watch more: Need to Know With North’s Suril Patel When merchants viewed payments solely through the lens of cost, they typically looked for as little cost as possible. But that one-dimensional calculus ...

Ripple Payments now allows customers to collect, hold, exchange and payout in both fiat and stablecoins. The platform also enables customers to provision named virtual accounts and wallets, automate collection flows, ...

PayPay reportedly hopes to raise up to $1.1 billion when it goes public. That’s according to a report Tuesday (March 3) from Bloomberg News, which says it would be the largest ever initial public ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paymentus’ Nicole Haskins The FinTech landscape has overindexed on innovation. But in an operational landscape defined by automation, predictive analytics, and invisible payments, the ...

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a commercial necessity. As stablecoins and digital ...

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are approaching a practical turning point in how they pay. Cash and checks still play an outsized role in day-to-day operations, especially for supplier and ...