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Citi Launches Mastercard Subscription Management Tool in UAE

Citi Launches Mastercard Subscription Management Tool in UAE
Citi Launches Mastercard Subscription Management Tool in UAE
September 17, 2026  |  Mastercard

Citi has launched Mastercard’s subscription management capability, Smart Subscriptions, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mastercard said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) press release. Get...

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Apollo Backs AI Hardware Startups to Win Future Infrastructure Financing
Apollo Backs AI Hardware Startups to Win Future Infrastructure Financing
September 17, 2026  |  Startups

Apollo Global Management is investing in startups focused on artificial intelligence and the related hardware and plans to lend them money in the future, The...

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Fed Deadline Passes as Payment Access Debate Continues
Fed Deadline Passes as Payment Access Debate Continues
September 17, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

For payments firms, direct access to the Federal Reserve can remove an intermediary from the chain between a transaction and settlement. For banks, expanding that...

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CFOs Spent Years Adding to the Payments Stack. Now They May Need to Tear It Apart.
CFOs Spent Years Adding to the Payments Stack. Now They May Need to Tear It...
September 17, 2026  |  Payment Methods

CFOs have typically solved payments problems by buying more payments technology. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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CFTC Makes It Easier for Software Developers to Have Prediction Markets
CFTC Makes It Easier for Software Developers to Have Prediction Markets
September 17, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division issued a staff letter declaring a no-action position for the benefit of providers of passive software, the...

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Cloudflare Blocks AI Agents From Ad-Supported Pages
Cloudflare Blocks AI Agents From Ad-Supported Pages
September 17, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Cloudflare has started blocking artificial intelligence agents by default on pages that carry ads, putting the tools consumers use to compare products in direct conflict...

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Amazon Urges Industry and Government Partnership on AI Safeguards
Amazon Urges Industry and Government Partnership on AI Safeguards
September 17, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Amazon said artificial intelligence labs should ensure models are safe and fully tested before releasing them but did not call for the industry to slow...

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Stablecoins Court CFOs as Crypto Loses Washington
Stablecoins Court CFOs as Crypto Loses Washington
September 17, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Washington’s attempt to advance comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation stalled out on Tuesday (Sept. 15). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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