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42% of Stablecoin Holders Want Crypto for Major Purchases
42% of Stablecoin Holders Want Crypto for Major Purchases
August 17, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency’s path into everyday commerce may look familiar via a card in a wallet, a purchase at the register and digital assets moving behind the...

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Retail Earnings Will Show What Stretched Consumers Protect
Retail Earnings Will Show What Stretched Consumers Protect
August 17, 2026  |  Retail

America’s biggest retailers are about to turn a weak government sales report into a six-company test of consumer endurance. U.S. retail and food service sales...

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Block and PayPal Find More Revenue in Merchant Loans
Block and PayPal Find More Revenue in Merchant Loans
August 14, 2026  |  Working Capital

A merchant that once represented a stream of transaction fees can now represent a lending relationship, and second-quarter earnings results show payments platforms putting more...

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Banks Turn Fewer AML Alerts Into Bigger Financial Crime Leads
Banks Turn Fewer AML Alerts Into Bigger Financial Crime Leads
August 14, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Financial institutions have spent years trying to see more suspicious activity. New data from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) suggests the more valuable question...

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SoFi Teaches Its AI Coach to Read the Financial Room
SoFi Teaches Its AI Coach to Read the Financial Room
August 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: Digital Shift With SoFi’s Brian Walsh Digital transformation in financial services has traditionally hung its hat on the promise of democratization and accessibility....

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Merchants Find Revenue Hiding Behind the Decline Button
Merchants Find Revenue Hiding Behind the Decline Button
August 14, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

In a fragmented payments environment, how intelligently infrastructure decides what should happen to every transaction is becoming a key definition of payments performance and success....

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Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years
Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years
August 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1% expected very positive returns within one to...

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From AI Assistants to Operational Agents: Where Issuers Can Act Now
From AI Assistants to Operational Agents: Where Issuers Can Act Now
August 14, 2026  |  Opinion

Success with agentic AI will depend on how well banks redesign their operational foundations, Thales Head of AI-Driven Operations Platform Amélie Tournant Fourel writes in a...

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Amazon Wants Alexa to Look Inside the Fridge and Fill the Cart
Amazon Wants Alexa to Look Inside the Fridge and Fill the Cart
August 13, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon’s latest Alexa demonstration looked almost trivial: photograph a refrigerator, ask what groceries are missing, and let artificial intelligence assemble the shopping list. But for...

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