Connected Economy

The innovations in technology, connected devices, software, payments and cellular technology make it possible for people and businesses to connect with each other and do business via any device, an in any digital or physical location safely, securely, and in real time. This integration of the digital and physical worlds will transform the economy across the ten pillars that today represent its key cornerstones – pillars that are already experiencing the impact of disruptive innovation as new blended, digital-first experience-driven ecosystems are now taking shape.

Bank of America, U.S. Bank and Finastra Push Banks Past Patchwork Payments
Bank of America, U.S. Bank and Finastra Push Banks Past Patchwork Payments
May 28, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: Why Payments Modernization Can’t Wait Banks spent years treating payments modernization as a long-range technology project. Corporate clients are done waiting. They want...

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Revolut’s AI Outperforms Human Reviewers at Detecting Financial Crime
Revolut’s AI Outperforms Human Reviewers at Detecting Financial Crime
May 27, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

For decades, catching financial crime meant hiring more people to review more alerts. Most of those alerts turned out to be nothing. Speaking at Semafor’s...

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B2B Procurement’s Future Belongs to Companies That See Risk First
B2B Procurement’s Future Belongs to Companies That See Risk First
May 27, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Enterprise transformation has been a relatively linear and stable exercise. Information assets and payments moved from physical to digital, and migrated into centralized platforms promising...

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Agentic Commerce May Force New Focus on False Declines
Agentic Commerce May Force New Focus on False Declines
May 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) in payments has been discussed through the lenses of fraud prevention, recommendation engines and operational efficiency. But with agentic AI, as software...

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Google Wants Ads to Talk Back in AI Search
Google Wants Ads to Talk Back in AI Search
May 26, 2026  |  News

Searching for something online used to mean typing a few words and scanning a list of links. Google’s replacing that with a conversation and monetizing...

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The Three Things Now Define Retail’s Best Customers
The Three Things Now Define Retail’s Best Customers
May 26, 2026  |  Retail

Retail has long worked from the straightforward assumption that customers who visit more often and spend more each trip deserve the most attention. That logic...

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AI Spots Hard Hat Violations Before Supervisors Do
AI Spots Hard Hat Violations Before Supervisors Do
May 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Construction employs roughly 8% of the private-sector workforce and accounts for about one in five of its fatalities. That ratio has persisted for decades. The...

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Quantum and AI Are Breaking Trust Everywhere at Once
Quantum and AI Are Breaking Trust Everywhere at Once
May 22, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

The Connected Economy has relied on a few supposedly stable assumptions as it scaled. One of the most crucial was that if systems could authenticate...

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Mortgage Underwriters Get an AI Agent Assist
Mortgage Underwriters Get an AI Agent Assist
May 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A mortgage application used to mean waiting. At TD Bank, pre-adjudication averaged roughly 15 hours before a human underwriter could open the file. That window...

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