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Cross-border Payments
Visa Canada and RemitBee Team to Simplify Cross-Border Payments
May 06, 2026

Visa Canada launched a collaboration with remittance-focused FinTech platform RemitBee, according to a Wednesday (May 6) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic CEO Predicts SaaS Pivot as AI Coding Surges
May 06, 2026

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies will need moats other than the complexity of writing software to preserve their businesses in the age of artificial intelligence that can code and write software, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Tuesday (May 5). Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Artificial Intelligence
PhonePe AI Agent Cuts Payment Gateway Integration to Minutes
May 06, 2026

PhonePe launched an artificial intelligence agent that enables merchants to integrate the company’s payment gateway through a conversational interface. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...

Investments
OpenTrade Raises $17 Million to Meet Stablecoin Infrastructure Demand
May 06, 2026

Stablecoin infrastructure platform OpenTrade has raised $17 million in new funding. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Races OpenAI to Capture the Banking’s Services Core
May 06, 2026

Anthropic’s launch this week of 10 financial services-focused artificial intelligence agents is the kind of product announcement that may mean more than the product itself. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

Investments
Astrada Raises $3.8 Million to Expand Autonomous Finance Offering
May 06, 2026

Autonomous finance data layer Astrada has raised $3.8 million in new funding. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...

Cross-border Payments
Stablecoin Settlement Brings Cross-Border Interoperability to Local RTP Networks
May 06, 2026

Domestic payment systems around the world are growing more instantaneous. And money movement in the blink of an eye is reframing the possibilities of commerce. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

Artificial Intelligence
Why OpenAI, Amazon and Apple Want to Be the Smartphone in Your Pocket
May 06, 2026

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on stage at Macworld and introduced three products. An iPod with a bigger screen and touch controls, a mobile phone, and something he described as a breakthrough internet communications device. He repeated the list three times so that...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic CEO Predicts Firms Have 6 Months to Patch Software Vulnerabilities
May 05, 2026

Financial services companies and other organizations have six to 12 months to fix vulnerabilities in their software before Chinese artificial intelligence models develop capabilities equal to those of Anthropic’s Mythos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Tuesday (May 5). Get the Full Story Complete the form...