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May 05, 2023
NerdWallet and SoFi Earnings Blunt FinTech IPO Gains as Index...

A spate of earnings reports rolled in through the past week, and a rough parity between gaining stocks and decliners held the FinTech IPO Index to a 1.4% gain. NerdWallet...


May 03, 2023
Google Adds Passkeys as Option for Google Accounts

Google Account users can now sign in without a password. The tech giant began rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms on Wednesday (May 3),...


May 03, 2023
Uber and Stripe Expand Partnership to Enable Pay by Bank

Uber and Stripe have expanded their strategic payments partnership across the United States, Australia and Japan. By expanding its use of Stripe’s payment platform, Uber will reduce payments costs, enhance...


May 02, 2023
Steptoe & Johnson Grows Investigation Team

Brian Burke has joined Steptoe & Johnson as a partner in the investigations and white-collar defense practice in New York, the firm said Tuesday. Burke advises clients with operations in Asia...


May 01, 2023
Astellas Pharma Acquires Iveric Bio For $5.9 Billion

Astellas Pharma Inc has reached an agreement to acquire Iveric Bio Inc for $5.9 billion in cash, valuing each share at $40.00. Astellas has made a deal with Iveric Bio,...


May 01, 2023
EU’s Vestager Says There Will Be Agreement On AI Law...

According to Margrethe Vestager, the tech regulation chief of the European Union, there is a high likelihood that a political agreement will be reached this year regarding the world’s first...


May 01, 2023
Mexico and Malaysia Poised for Massive Real-Time Payments Growth by...

Real-time payment systems have become increasingly popular around the world due to the rise of digital payments and the need for faster and more efficient financial transactions. Some of the...


April 29, 2023
As TikTok Is Squeezed, ByteDance Makes Lemon8

Lemon8, the sibling app of TikTok, is steadily growing its user base while TikTok faces challenges on Capitol Hill and the first state-approved measure to ban it. The Lemon8 app,...


April 20, 2023
Upping the “Ante” on Competition Regulation: Gambling with the Future...

Policymakers, regulators, and commentators alike have criticized antitrust enforcers’ attempts at constraining “Big Tech” as excessively lenient and far too slow. This perceived failure, along with widespread declarations of certain...


Real-Time Payments World Map
Mexico and Malaysia Poised for Massive Real-Time Payments Growth by 2026 As real-time payments continue to grow around the world, some countries are expected to see significant adoption by 2026. In this this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores Italy, Kenya, Japan, Mexico and Malaysia, countries with very different projected growth.