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Splitit CEO Says Payments Firms Must Build for AI, Not Just Use It
Splitit CEO Says Payments Firms Must Build for AI, Not Just Use It
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Splitit’s Nandan Sheth For payments executives, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming less interesting as a productivity tool...

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Three Charts Show Who Wants a Federal Bank Charter and Why
Three Charts Show Who Wants a Federal Bank Charter and Why
August 26, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s charter-granting activity doesn’t just show that a new rash of financial services firms are successfully becoming banks...

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62% of Financially Improving Households Have a Savings Cushion
62% of Financially Improving Households Have a Savings Cushion
August 26, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

As today’s consumer confidence reading from The Conference Board shows, metrics can be complicated. They may be holding in a narrow range, but household finances...

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Targeted Rewards Could Close Credit Unions’ 21-Point Wallet Gap
Targeted Rewards Could Close Credit Unions’ 21-Point Wallet Gap
August 26, 2026  |  Credit Unions

Credit unions (CUs) have spent decades building the kind of customer relationship that national banks would struggle to manufacture with even the biggest marketing budget....

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Oumi Want Every Enterprise to Build Its Own AI Brain
Oumi Want Every Enterprise to Build Its Own AI Brain
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Oumi launched its Compounding AI Factory this month, a platform built to automate the development of specialized enterprise artificial intelligence models. Instead of assembling a...

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Banks Adopt AI and Stablecoins Faster Than Compliance Can Keep Up
Banks Adopt AI and Stablecoins Faster Than Compliance Can Keep Up
August 26, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Flagright’s Chris Phillips A little paranoia may be useful when the technology moving money changes faster than the...

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Amazon Clothing Share Doubles as Walmart Loses Ground
Amazon Clothing Share Doubles as Walmart Loses Ground
August 25, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon’s share of U.S. clothing spending has doubled since 2019 while Walmart’s has edged lower, a six-year divergence that was still widening during the first...

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Banks Turn Real-Time Payment Rails Into Customer Products
Banks Turn Real-Time Payment Rails Into Customer Products
August 25, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Watch more: Need to Know With Jim Colassano of The Clearing House For banks, connecting to real-time payments was the entry point. Making those payments...

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i2c Wants Payments Executives to Worry Smarter
i2c Wants Payments Executives to Worry Smarter
August 25, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Jason Goldberg of i2c Payments executives have always had reasons to be paranoid. The trouble now is deciding...

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