April 22, 2024
The Chatbot Will See You Now: Medical Experts Debate the...

As artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots become increasingly common in healthcare, questions about their effectiveness and reliability continue to spark debate. The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced an AI health...

April 22, 2024
Coupa and Bottomline Join Forces for Payments Automation

Margin multiplier company Coupa has launched a partnership with business payments provider Bottomline. The collaboration, announced Monday (April 22), is designed to simplify digital payment processes for businesses, letting Coupa connect to Bottomline’s Paymode-X to...

April 19, 2024
 The Juggling Act That Can Cost Middle-Market Firms $10 Million

This week, an official with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), an agency tasked with overseeing firms and markets in the U.K., compared her job to that of a juggler. “Juggling...

April 19, 2024
A Law and Economics Analysis of the Antitrust Treatment of...

Physician groups charged with price-fixing are typically prosecuted under civil law rather than criminal law even assuming the per se illegality of such agreements. This paper employs a “law and...

April 19, 2024
Synchrony: Addressing Women’s Economic Needs Can Improve Healthcare

Health is wealth, in more ways than one. That’s because disparities in healthcare spending between patients are highly correlated to disparities in health outcomes. And, due to the historical underrepresentation...

April 19, 2024
FinTech IPO Index Gives Up 6.4% as Platforms Plummet Ahead...

If there was a theme marking the past five days of trading, after the big banks reported earnings, and as the digital lenders that populate the FinTech IPO Index showed,...

April 18, 2024
McHenry Proposes Office to Regulate Financial Regulators

House Republicans think America’s financial oversight bodies need some oversight of their own. U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), chair of the House Financial Services Committee, re-introduced legislation Wednesday (April 17) that would set...

April 18, 2024
Weekly Jobless Claims Unchanged; Remain at Low Level

The number of initial claims for unemployment insurance filed during the week ended Saturday (April 13) was unchanged from the previous week’s revised figure of 212,000. The previous week’s figure...

April 18, 2024
Mastercard Brings Commercial Cards to Digital Wallets

Continuing the industry’s migration of business payments and expense management to digital platforms, Mastercard announced today (April 18) that it is bringing its commercial cards to mobile wallets. The move comes in...