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Unpredictable Pay Cycles Break Financial Stability for America’s Hourly Workers

Unpredictable Pay Cycles Break Financial Stability for America’s Hourly Workers
Unpredictable Pay Cycles Break Financial Stability for America’s Hourly Workers
January 20, 2026  |  Payroll

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Mastercard Says Embedding Payments Is Key to Commercial Payments Acceptance
Mastercard Says Embedding Payments Is Key to Commercial Payments Acceptance
January 19, 2026  |  Commercial Payments

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Hot Mics and Hard Truths: Inside the Chaos of Earnings Season
Hot Mics and Hard Truths: Inside the Chaos of Earnings Season
January 17, 2026  |  Earnings

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Banks Overestimate Their Identity Defenses to the Tune of $34B a Year
Banks Overestimate Their Identity Defenses to the Tune of $34B a Year
January 16, 2026  |  Digital Identity

As financial services firms push deeper into digital channels, identity verification has quietly become one of the most consequential—and most underestimated—forces shaping growth, risk and...

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What 2026 Will Make Obvious
What 2026 Will Make Obvious
January 14, 2026  |  What's Trending

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Consumers Pay the Price as State Regulation Fractures FinTech Scale
Consumers Pay the Price as State Regulation Fractures FinTech Scale
January 13, 2026  |  What's Trending

The CFPB’s decision to dial down enforcement of BNPL and other nonbank credit products hasn’t created a vacuum. It has invited fifty competing rulebooks to...

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AI Doers Drown Out AI Naysayers
AI Doers Drown Out AI Naysayers
January 12, 2026  |  What's Trending

By the end of 2025, the conversation around autonomous AI changed in a way that had little to do with public debate and everything to...

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Inside the NFL’s Strategy to Monetize Every Second of Super Bowl Week
Inside the NFL’s Strategy to Monetize Every Second of Super Bowl Week
January 10, 2026  |  Retail

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The Labor Economy Becomes the Next Payments Innovation Engine
The Labor Economy Becomes the Next Payments Innovation Engine
January 09, 2026  |  What's Trending

In 2026, the Labor Economy becomes one of the most important sources of economic growth — not despite automation, but because of it. As intelligence...

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