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Retail
Walmart Goes Back in Time With Back-to-School Prices
July 10, 2023

Walmart is letting parents shop for the 2023 school year at 2022 prices. “With 80% of customers expecting to spend more on supplies this year, …we’re excited to offer the school supply basket at the same prices as last year,” the retailer said in a news release last...

Banking
Big Banks’ Loan Losses Spike as Credit Card Charge-Offs Rise
July 10, 2023

America’s big banks are due to report their largest increase in loan losses since the pandemic. As the Financial Times reported Monday (July 10), analysts project the six largest banks in the U.S. — J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs...

eCommerce
Study Finds US Consumers Look a Lot But Buy Little on Social Media
July 10, 2023

Tapping or clicking the hashtag #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt will bring users to pages upon pages of videos in which TikTokers show off viral purchases they first discovered on the platform: iced coffee slushy cups, hair gem stampers, live pet axolotls, levitating bulb lamps and beyond. The hashtag...

B2B Payments
B2B Platforms Need to Think Globally, Act Locally to Drive Business Growth
July 10, 2023

As companies look to steer their business strategy to drive growth, Pierre Lion, chief growth officer at FinTech firm Mangopay, says thinking globally should be a priority right from the onset. “When you start building your project or your proof of concept, especially for a...

Regulation
America’s New Merger Rules Could Add Months to Process
July 09, 2023

Proposed regulations for mergers and acquisitions could add months to the deals process. That’s according to antitrust lawyer Kara Kuritz, who spoke with Seeking Alpha on Sunday (July 9) about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed revisions to the...

Security & Fraud
Report: Revolut US Payments Flaw Leads to $20 Million Theft
July 09, 2023

A flaw in Revolut’s U.S. payment system reportedly let criminals steal more than $20 million. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (July 9), the thefts occurred over several months in 2022 before the British FinTech was able to fix the issue.   According to FT, sources with knowledge...

Security & Fraud
UK Finance: 61% of Push Payments Fraud Tied to Meta
July 09, 2023

British lobbying group UK Finance has reportedly tied a bulk of the country’s digital payments fraud to Meta Platforms. As the Financial Times reported Sunday (July 9) — citing unnamed sources — the group has written to Jeremy Hunt, the British chancellor, saying that its data has found...

Social Commerce
Snapchat Reportedly Reaps Benefits From Creator Revenue-Sharing Program
July 09, 2023

Snapchat’s plan to woo creators by allowing them to share ad revenue could be paying off. That program, which debuted in April and is known as Snap Star, has several thousand creators in it.  And as The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday (July 9), the time users spent...

Artificial Intelligence
The Cost of Doing AI Business
July 08, 2023

While the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) may seem limitless, the computing power it requires could present limitations. One estimate places the cost of a ChatGPT query at 1,000 times that of the same question asked of a normal Google search. In the initial...