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Digital Freelancers Find More Work and New Pressure on Pay
Digital Freelancers Find More Work and New Pressure on Pay
September 25, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

AI can produce a first draft. Someone still has to make the finished work worth paying for. The September 2026 edition of The Wage to...

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Businesses Move Fraud Checks Ahead of Payments
Businesses Move Fraud Checks Ahead of Payments
September 24, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

A payment request can look perfectly ordinary until someone checks the bank account. By then, the finance team may be one click away from sending...

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Agentic Commerce Needs Its Febreze Moment
Agentic Commerce Needs Its Febreze Moment
September 23, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

In the mid-1990s, Procter & Gamble made a stunning claim. They said they’d invented a miracle in a bottle. A chemist working there found a...

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Visa Says Small Merchants Could Move Faster on AI Shopping
Visa Says Small Merchants Could Move Faster on AI Shopping
September 22, 2026  |  SMBs

Watch more: Need to Know With Visa’s Sara Craven Small merchants are preparing for a customer who may find them through artificial intelligence before ever...

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Younger Cardholders Tell Issuers What Would Get Them to Use Their Cards More
Younger Cardholders Tell Issuers What Would Get Them to Use Their Cards More
September 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Issuers can invest in faster, more precise credit decisions, but those improvements alone may not persuade customers to change how they pay. Cardholders need to...

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Santa Would Like a Word With Your Pumpkin
Santa Would Like a Word With Your Pumpkin
September 19, 2026  |  Retail

Santa has apparently checked his calendar and decided Halloween has had quite enough time. Amazon, Target and Walmart are lining up overlapping October sales, inviting...

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Mastercard Says Consumer Choice at the Center of Agent Pay
Mastercard Says Consumer Choice at the Center of Agent Pay
September 17, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Chiro Aikat It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is already becoming part of how consumers search and shop,...

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AI Has a Frankenstein Dilemma
AI Has a Frankenstein Dilemma
September 16, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

AI Has a Frankenstein Dilemma Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. More than two hundred years later, it’s said to sell about 40,000 to 50,00...

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Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond on Letting AI Shop While Consumers Stay in Charge
Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond on Letting AI Shop While Consumers Stay in Charge
September 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond AI can find the shoes, compare prices and locate a merchant with the right size. The...

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