February 28, 2024
Are Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts a Smart Option for Global Financing?
Proponents of blockchain’s underlying technical capabilities are determined to shake off its cryptocurrency-centric associations. In large part by finding historical opportunity areas within the traditional financial sector that digital assets...
February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms and Antitrust Enforcement: Sandboxes to the Rescue?
Pricing algorithms make it easier for businesses dynamically to respond to market tendencies and set prices in an instant manner. In doing so, they can contribute to more efficient price...
February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms in Antitrust’s Sights?
Pricing algorithms have captured antitrust scholars’ attention for a decade now. A key problem: Whether antitrust doctrine could adequately handle the situation where several competing firms independently delegate their market...
February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms — What Role for Regulation?
The rapid spread of pricing algorithms in e-commerce markets has raised alarms about their potential for anticompetitive abuse. Enforcers and policy-makers have been concerned for some time about the possibility...
February 28, 2024
US Money Laundering Fight May Soon Turn Corner
Is the tide turning in America’s war on money laundering? Writing in the Financial Times Tuesday (Feb. 27), Casey Michel of the Human Rights Foundation argues that the U.S. has...
February 28, 2024
Technology Helps Smaller Businesses Turn Embedded Finance Into Competitive Advantage
Ed O’Donnell, CEO of Versatile Credit, said that embedded finance can — and already is — transforming smaller businesses’ competitive dynamics. “Technology’s been the great equalizer,” he said, “for small-...
February 27, 2024
Mesh Payments Launches Integration of Spend Management With NetSuite OneWorld
Mesh Payments has announced the integration of its global card and spend management solution with NetSuite OneWorld, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for multi-subsidiary management. This integration enhances global...
February 27, 2024
Lowe’s Projects Falling Sales as Consumers Put off Remodeling
Consumers are forgoing big-ticket home projects, a fact that is cutting into Lowe’s revenue. The home improvement retailer released earnings Tuesday (Feb. 27) that showed sales for its most recent quarter dropping from $22.4...
February 26, 2024
Dimon Says Commercial Real Estate Owners Are Handling Stress
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Monday (Feb. 26) that most owners of commercial real estate will be able to “muddle through” the current economic environment. Those owners will be able to...
