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Nearly 9 in 10 Card Issuers Turn to AI to Stop Fraud Without Blocking Sales
Nearly 9 in 10 Card Issuers Turn to AI to Stop Fraud Without Blocking Sales
October 15, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

For card issuers, artificial intelligence is moving closer to the transaction itself. Eighty-nine percent of issuers plan to adopt or expand at least one AI...

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87% Satisfaction Gives Credit Unions a Foundation to Grow Card Usage
87% Satisfaction Gives Credit Unions a Foundation to Grow Card Usage
October 15, 2026  |  Credit Unions

Credit unions have already earned their members’ trust. Giving those members more reasons to use their cards could start with something tangible: rewards on everyday...

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Payments’ Next Scaling Problem Is Complexity, Not Transaction Volume
Payments’ Next Scaling Problem Is Complexity, Not Transaction Volume
October 14, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: Beyond the Rails: The Infrastructure Powering Payment Partner Ecosystems Payments companies have spent years bragging about how much volume their technology can handle. That...

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SoFi Tech Solutions Says FinTech’s Next Edge Is Showing Up at the Right Moment
SoFi Tech Solutions Says FinTech’s Next Edge Is Showing Up at the Right Moment
October 14, 2026  |  Innovation

Watch more: Need to Know | Sofi Tech Solutions | Prashant Shah Speed and simplicity helped FinTechs establish themselves as alternatives to traditional financial institutions....

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Finance Teams Finally Have Proof AI Fraud Tools Pay Off
Finance Teams Finally Have Proof AI Fraud Tools Pay Off
October 14, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud teams have spent years weighing whether artificial intelligence (AI) can improve on manual controls. For companies that have deployed the technology, the results are...

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Credit Unions Could Land More FinTech Partners by Simplifying Onboarding
Credit Unions Could Land More FinTech Partners by Simplifying Onboarding
October 14, 2026  |  Credit Unions

A FinTech that wants to sell to 10 credit unions can face 10 separate onboarding processes. For a market made up of thousands of individual...

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33% of US Shoppers Use Digital Wallets Online
33% of US Shoppers Use Digital Wallets Online
October 14, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Merchants could keep more ready buyers at checkout by accepting the digital wallets those shoppers already use, with wallet gaps putting roughly 36 million U.S....

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Splitit Bets a White-Label Charge Card Can Make Mid-Sized Banks BNPL Contenders
Splitit Bets a White-Label Charge Card Can Make Mid-Sized Banks BNPL Contenders
October 13, 2026  |  BNPL

Watch more: Need to Know with Splitit’s Nandan Sheth In 1949, a businessman named Frank McNamara finished dinner at a New York restaurant and realized...

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Treasury’s Next Big Challenge Is Connecting the Systems It Already Has
Treasury’s Next Big Challenge Is Connecting the Systems It Already Has
October 13, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

Watch more: Need to Know with Bank of America’s Daniel Stanton Companies have upgraded their treasury systems while the payment networks, banks and data they...

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