August 15, 2026
Italy’s Cheese Bank Finds Climate Risk Has a Rind
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August 14, 2026
Banks Find the Big Money in FinCEN’s $4.9 Billion Smuggling...
Financial institutions have spent years trying to see more suspicious activity. New data from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) suggests the more valuable question may be whether they can...
August 14, 2026
Investment Through Mercado Pago and the Structural Transformation of Financial...
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August 14, 2026
Retail Spending Pause Shows Consumers Picking Their Spots
July’s retail sales decline landed in the middle of a much more deliberate reset in household spending. Consumers are still buying, in select categories. But PYMNTS Intelligence data show how...
August 14, 2026
SoFi Teaches Its AI Coach to Read the Financial Room
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August 13, 2026
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Built an AI-Native Department. Mid-Market CFOs...
Most mid-market CFOs are not going to build OpenAI’s finance stack. They do not have the same engineering resources, access to frontier models or appetite for rebuilding finance workflows from...
August 13, 2026
S&P 500 Companies Claim First Payouts From $100 Billion Tariff...
More than 40 S&P 500 companies reported $9.6 billion in tariff refunds in the past quarter or so, with about $2.1 billion in cash already received, The Wall Street Journal...
August 13, 2026
Klarna Launches New Membership Tiers With Fee Cuts and Higher...
Global digital bank and flexible payments provider Klarna has revamped its membership tiers in Europe, adding new perks, removing service fees and increasing cash-back rewards, the company said in a...
August 13, 2026
FinTech Navi Targets $2 Billion Valuation in India IPO
FinTech startup Navi is preparing to launch its initial public offering in India and will seek a valuation of as much as $2 billion, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing...
The pandemic is making cash all but a nonstarter for today’s no touch customers – and restaurants that can’t deliver touchless payments will find themselves in hot water. In the Order To Eat Tracker, Chris Birkinshaw, CEO of poke bowl chain Aloha Poke Co., explains why the rapid shift to cashless transactions has made contactless offerings imperative.