Visa says it is giving $2 million to support organizations that support small businesses. That commitment from the Visa Foundation is aimed at entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) serving small businesses in the U.S., the company announced Wednesday (Sept. 30), opening the program to grant applications. Those grants are geared...
The first rule of online payments is to prove that the person trying to pay is allowed to do so. Artificial intelligence is forcing banks and payments networks to add another layer. Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Tuesday (Sept. 29) that agentic commerce changes...
Corporate treasury technology has perennially been a visibility game. Banks, treasury management systems and FinTechs promised CFOs a better view of balances, payments, liquidity and forecasts. And the provider landscape did indeed provide that view. But better dashboards are becoming table stakes just as artificial...
Robinhood has begun letting users build their own artificial intelligence agents to assist with trading. Robinhood Agents, announced Tuesday (Sept. 29) at the company’s HOOD Summit 2026 in Houston, are designed to help Robinhood customers develop strategies, conduct research or trade automatically. “With safety and security at its...
Mastercard has added new trust and intelligence services to its agentic payments program, Agent Pay, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 30) press release emailed to PYMNTS. The new services bring together identity, intent, behavioral and fraud insights to help financial institutions and merchants...
Google has reportedly been paying around 100 publishers for how much their content helps drive AI-powered query answers. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Sept. 29) by The Information, which characterizes this pilot program as a sign that Google is shifting toward paying publishers for content that shows...
OpenAI reportedly hopes to raise up to $30 billion after delaying plans to go public. The artificial intelligence (AI) company is targeting a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion, not counting new funds raised, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Sept. 29), citing sources familiar with the matter. ...
U.K. FinTech Zilch is reportedly in discussions with banks as it prepares to go public. The company, whose offerings include buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans, is looking to list on the London Stock Exchange, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Sept. 30). Sources familiar...
In April 1956, a trucking executive named Malcom McLean loaded 58 metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sent it to Houston. Nobody threw confetti. The longshoremen hated it. But the math was hard to argue with. Loading a ship by hand cost...