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AI Agents Are Going to Work at City Hall
AI Agents Are Going to Work at City Hall
October 19, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Government services have always moved slowly. Long queues, paper forms and manual reviews define an experience most citizens dread. Tighter budgets and shrinking workforces are...

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Why Insured Workers Still Skip Healthcare
Why Insured Workers Still Skip Healthcare
October 19, 2026  |  Healthcare

Employers know exactly what their health plan costs. What they usually don’t know is what it costs them when an employee needs care and doesn’t...

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Growing FinTechs Gain Leverage Over Their Banking Partners
Growing FinTechs Gain Leverage Over Their Banking Partners
October 16, 2026  |  Banking

As FinTechs scale, they bring banks more deposits, loans, transactions and fees while gaining more choice over which institutions provide the funding and infrastructure behind...

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Agentic Payments Are About to Break the Meaning of an Authorized Transaction
Agentic Payments Are About to Break the Meaning of an Authorized Transaction
October 16, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: Before AI Moves Money, It Must Earn Authority Agentic commerce has a payments problem hiding in plain sight. The financial system does not...

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UPS Capital Uses AI to Stop Holiday Delivery Disasters
UPS Capital Uses AI to Stop Holiday Delivery Disasters
October 16, 2026  |  Delivery

Watch more: Digital Shift with UPS Capital’s Ashley Hillman One of the most stressful situations for holiday shoppers is opening the door to find nothing...

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Scams Capture 22.4% of Fraud Dollars as Banks Adjust Defenses
Scams Capture 22.4% of Fraud Dollars as Banks Adjust Defenses
October 16, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Banks have an opportunity to strengthen fraud prevention by looking more closely at payments that arrive with a valid login or a customer’s approval. That’s...

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Accounts Payable Holds the Key to Smarter Working Capital Decisions
Accounts Payable Holds the Key to Smarter Working Capital Decisions
October 15, 2026  |  Accounts Payable

Watch more: Trusted Data Comes Before AI Payment Decisions  Moving money used to be the product. Today, it’s becoming a commodity. “Execution itself is becoming...

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Payroc Says AI Makes Building Payments Software Easier, but Running It Is Another Story
Payroc Says AI Makes Building Payments Software Easier, but Running It Is Another Story
October 15, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: Digital Shift with Payroc’s Paul Vienneau The most important question for software companies building payments used to be whether they had the engineers,...

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BNPL Providers Look Beyond Grocery for More Wallet Share
BNPL Providers Look Beyond Grocery for More Wallet Share
October 15, 2026  |  BNPL

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) wallet is crowded, and grocery purchases show just how much the leading providers already overlap. Between 87% and 96%...

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