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How the Top 17% of Card Issuers Build High Customer Lifetime Value

How the Top 17% of Card Issuers Build High Customer Lifetime Value
How the Top 17% of Card Issuers Build High Customer Lifetime Value
July 30, 2026  |  Credit Cards

Seventeen percent of card issuers have reached the high customer lifetime value (CLTV) tier. What sets them apart isn’t the number of capabilities they’ve deployed,...

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Real-Time Payments Move Into More Markets and More Workflows
Real-Time Payments Move Into More Markets and More Workflows
July 30, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Real-time payments are no longer waiting for a killer app. From Pix becoming an everyday payment method in Brazil to RTP and FedNow moving deeper...

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Microsoft Extends Data Center Lifespans to Soften AI Buildout Costs
Microsoft Extends Data Center Lifespans to Soften AI Buildout Costs
July 29, 2026  |  Earnings

Microsoft reported strong growth in its cloud and artificial intelligence businesses while also working to moderate the impact of capital expenditures. Get the Full Story...

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Robinhood Takes an Option Out on Owning Customer Transactions
Robinhood Takes an Option Out on Owning Customer Transactions
July 29, 2026  |  Earnings

Robinhood is moving beyond its original role as a retail broker. And that’s despite the fact that the second-quarter 2026 results shared company’s Wednesday (July...

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Zuckerberg Says Billions Will Rely on Personal AI Agents
Zuckerberg Says Billions Will Rely on Personal AI Agents
July 29, 2026  |  Facebook / Meta

A day after blasting OpenAI and Anthropic for hoarding information, the drama surrounding Meta’s Q2 earnings call centered around how he would follow up. Listeners...

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Binance.US Prepares CFTC Application to Launch Prediction Markets
Binance.US Prepares CFTC Application to Launch Prediction Markets
July 29, 2026  |  Markets

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US aims to offer prediction markets to customers, Crypto in America journalist and host Eleanor Terrett said in a Wednesday (July 29) post on X, citing...

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Freehand Raises $75 Million to Automate Enterprise Procurement and Payments
Freehand Raises $75 Million to Automate Enterprise Procurement and Payments
July 29, 2026  |  Investments

Freehand raised $75 million to scale its autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents that manage supply chain spend for global enterprises. Get the Full Story Complete...

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WEX Deploys AI to Stop Fleet Fuel Fraud Before It Happens
WEX Deploys AI to Stop Fleet Fuel Fraud Before It Happens
July 29, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

WEX will soon expand the capabilities of its WEXOnline platform for commercial fleets to include identifying and stopping potentially unauthorized fuel purchases before they are...

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