July 16, 2026
Antitrust Similarities and Differences Between Browser Competition and AI Competition

In both the 1990s browser competition and today’s generative AI competition, there was a first-mover disruption by an upstart (Netscape, OpenAI), which prompted an aggressive “code red” response by large...

July 15, 2026
Revolut Gets Preliminary UAE Crypto License Nod Weeks After Banking...

Revolut furthered its expansion strategy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by gaining in-principle approval to provide crypto services in the country. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

July 14, 2026
HP India, Resellers Fined After Watchdog Finds Bid-Rigging in Government...

India’s competition regulator has ordered HP India and a group of its channel partners to halt anti-competitive practices and pay financial penalties after concluding they manipulated bidding processes on the...

July 13, 2026
Smaller Card Issuers Can Out-Compete the Giants, New Study Finds

Customer lifetime value has long been treated as an output metric, a way to judge whether a card portfolio performed well after the fact. Increasingly, issuers are using it as...

July 09, 2026
Sony Gets Conditional OK for US-Based Stablecoin Bank

Sony Bank has received conditional approval to launch a U.S.-based stablecoin bank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

July 08, 2026
SMBs Swap Pricey SaaS Contracts for AI-Built Apps

For two decades, buying enterprise software meant accepting a vendor’s feature set, paying per seat and hiring specialists to manage the platform. For small businesses, that model often meant paying...

July 07, 2026
Open Banking Moves From Access to Economics

Open banking has been discussed as another way to move money, where debate over who controls the data that makes those payments possible is giving way to how that data...

July 07, 2026
Insurers Find a Loyalty Test in Every Premium Payment

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July 06, 2026
Gift Card Loophole Gives Hackers a New Way to Cash...

Every artificial intelligence (AI) platform that stores a payment method and adds a gifting feature has created a new monetization surface for account takeover fraud. Claude users are discovering gift...