April 16, 2025
Online Sales Muted as Consumers Rush to Buy Cars and...
As earnings season kicked off last week, JPMorgan’s CFO Jeremy Barnum said on the conference call with analysts that consumers had been front-loading their spending ahead of anticipated price increases...
April 16, 2025
Napster Owner Infinite Reality Valued at $15 Billion After Acquiring...
Metaverse company Infinite Reality has been valued at $15.5 billion after purchasing AI firm Touchcast, the company announced Wednesday (April 16). In purchasing Touchcast, Infinite Reality gets access to products that include artificial...
April 16, 2025
eBay and Checkout.com Launch Payments Acquiring Partnership
eBay says it is making Checkout.com its newest global payments acquiring partner. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 16), is designed to provide a more seamless commerce experience for shoppers on...
April 16, 2025
SMBs Face Pressure to Match Big Retail’s Digital Game
The pandemic sent us all online to get the goods and services we needed — and if we weren’t comfortable using a mobile device to scroll and click through to...
April 15, 2025
Report: Anthropic Set to Add Voice Capabilities to AI Assistant...
Anthropic is reportedly set to add voice capabilities to its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Claude. The new “voice mode” could be released this month and will first be available on...
April 15, 2025
Klarna Expands In-Store Pay-Later Offering With Clover Partnership
Klarna has teamed with Clover to bring its pay-later offering to that company’s point-of-sale system. The partnership will let shoppers pick Klarna’s installment payment option at more than 100,000 merchants in the U.S.,...
April 15, 2025
South Africa’s Stitch Raises $55 Million to Expand Enterprise Payments...
South Africa-based payments infrastructure company Stitch raised $55 million in a Series B funding round to expand its offerings for enterprise merchants. The company will use the new funding to...
April 15, 2025
Digital Developments: Charting Digital Payment Growth in Latin America
Digital payments have transformed the financial landscape in Latin America, reshaping how consumers and businesses transact. The region has become a hot spot for innovation, with digital wallets, account-to-account (A2A)...
April 14, 2025
OpenAI Developing AI Agent to Replace Software Engineers, CFO Says
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the startup is building an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that can do all the work of software engineers, not just augment their skills, during a...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Gaming companies with dedicated analytics teams report nearly 10 times the revenue growth of those without, highlighting the importance of data-driven decision making. Yet, 61% of gaming platforms lack real-time access to critical insights, limiting their ability to adapt and optimize. Dive into “Data-Driven Advantage: How Gaming Merchants Can Accelerate Growth,” our latest collaboration with Carat from Fiserv, to learn how leading firms are transforming data into a competitive advantage.