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Embedded Payments Emerge as a FinTech M&A Target
Embedded Payments Emerge as a FinTech M&A Target
September 01, 2026  |  Fintech Investments

FinTech buyers looking for growth in a tough funding and software market are finding something valuable inside real estate closings, municipal bills, healthcare practices and...

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How 21 Banks Changed the Conversation Around Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits
How 21 Banks Changed the Conversation Around Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits
September 01, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins and tokenized deposits can look deceptively similar from the perspective of a corporate user. Both can represent dollars digitally. Both can potentially settle around...

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Synchrony’s Small Business Partners Target the Cost of a Missed Yes
Synchrony’s Small Business Partners Target the Cost of a Missed Yes
September 01, 2026  |  Alternative Credit

Watch more: Need to Know With Anita Chalkley of Synchrony and Chris Taylor of Discount Tire Service Centers  A customer who walks out of a...

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Petwealth Uses AI to Turn Pet Lab Results Into Action
Petwealth Uses AI to Turn Pet Lab Results Into Action
September 01, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Angelo Palivos built Petwealth after losing his own pet to an illness that a diagnostic lab couldn’t catch in time. That loss became the company’s...

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Why Merchants Get Better Results When Their Payment Systems Work Together
Why Merchants Get Better Results When Their Payment Systems Work Together
September 01, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Adding payment processors is relatively easy. Getting substantially better payment performance from the resulting network appears to be much harder. That distinction stands out in...

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Healthcare’s Next Competitive Advantage Isn’t Coverage. It’s Cash Flow.
Healthcare’s Next Competitive Advantage Isn’t Coverage. It’s Cash Flow.
September 01, 2026  |  Healthcare

Consumers have been trained by the rest of the digital economy to expect money to move quickly. Instant deposits and real-time peer-to-peer payments have narrowed...

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Summer Expenses Will Follow 77% of Gen Z Into Fall
Summer Expenses Will Follow 77% of Gen Z Into Fall
September 01, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

The biggest threat to the summer budget may be the expenses consumers can’t cancel. New PYMNTS Intelligence data suggests that groceries, utility bills and transportation...

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57% of Firms Find Payment Fraud After Settlement
57% of Firms Find Payment Fraud After Settlement
September 01, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Uncertainty can turn a routine payment problem into a cost that is twice as large. That gap sits at the center of “Early Detection: Why...

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SoFi Tech Solutions’ New President Is Building the AWS of Finance
SoFi Tech Solutions’ New President Is Building the AWS of Finance
August 31, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: Monday Conversation With SoFi’s Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore Former Visa executive Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore is three months into her new role as president of SoFi Technology...

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