February 22, 2024
Zūm Rails Raises $7 Million to Expand Open Banking Offering

Zūm Rails has raised $7.7 million to expand its open banking/instant payments solution. The Montreal-based company announced the $7.7 million ($10.5 million CAD) Series A funding round Thursday (Feb. 22), saying it would...

February 22, 2024
eCommerce Platforms Make the Leap Into One-Stop-Shop Embedded Trade Finance 

For the merchants doing business online, serving consumers and even buying goods and services from one another, working capital is a lifeline. Working capital provides the ready cash needed to...

February 22, 2024
Databricks Doubles Down on Data to Bring AI to Fortune...

For all its technological complexity, artificial intelligence (AI) rests on one very simple foundation: data. And it’s here that Databricks has put a stake in the ground, claiming 50% of...

February 21, 2024
Cart.com Launches Order Management Software for Merchants

Cart.com now offers its order management software solution as a standalone product. The Constellation Order Management System (OMS) allows merchants to unify orders and inventory across multiple channels, the company said in a...

February 16, 2024
Consumers Prefer Instant Payments, Federal Reserve and PYMNTS Data Show

An official with the Atlanta Federal Reserve says findings from a 2023 Federal Reserve study confirm the growing appetite for instant payments. Claire Greene, payments risk expert with the Federal...

February 16, 2024
Can Data Regulation Reshape the Short-Term Rental Market?

We describe whether and how short-term rental (“STR”) platforms share data with local governments, as municipalities attempt to regulate STR markets in the US and Europe. The raw data patterns...

February 15, 2024
Visa and Mastercard Move to Dismiss Antitrust Claims by Intuit...

Visa and Mastercard, two of the world’s largest credit card companies, have moved to dismiss antitrust claims filed against them by Intuit and Square, citing a $5.6 billion class-action settlement...

February 09, 2024
Earned Wage Access Debate Set to Heat Up Between FinTechs...

The debate between regulators and FinTechs over the state of earned wage access (EWA) innovations looks set to heat up through the next several months. In a Feb. 7 letter...

February 05, 2024
Freightos Expands Reach With Virgin Atlantic Cargo Partnership

Freight industry booking platform Freightos has launched a partnership with Virgin Atlantic Cargo. The collaboration, announced Monday (Feb. 5), combines Virgin’s “extensive” network with the digital reach of Freightos’ WebCargo offering, “providing more...