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BNPL Finds an Audience Among Super-Prime Shoppers

BNPL Finds an Audience Among Super-Prime Shoppers
BNPL Finds an Audience Among Super-Prime Shoppers
August 20, 2026  |  BNPL

Consumers who spread their purchases across several buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers are also the ones most prepared to pay for something BNPL was...

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Autonomy’s New CEO Is Going After the Drivers Leases Don’t Fit
Autonomy’s New CEO Is Going After the Drivers Leases Don’t Fit
August 20, 2026  |  Subscriptions

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Real-Time Payments Give Banks a Commercial Account Retention Tool
Real-Time Payments Give Banks a Commercial Account Retention Tool
August 20, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Business-account retention has traditionally depended on a web of services that become embedded in a company’s financial operations. Real-time payments (RTP) are giving banks another...

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OCC Promises Final Rule for GENIUS Act by November
OCC Promises Final Rule for GENIUS Act by November
August 19, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will have a final rule implementing the GENIUS Act out by November, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V....

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Nvidia Weighs Investment in Round Valuing Mercor at $20 Billion
Nvidia Weighs Investment in Round Valuing Mercor at $20 Billion
August 19, 2026  |  Investments

Nvidia has discussed participating in a funding round that would value Mercor, a data labeling provider that supplies data that helps the chip designer develop open-source models,...

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Hyundai Cuts Crash Test Review Time by 90% With AI
Hyundai Cuts Crash Test Review Time by 90% With AI
August 19, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Hyundai Motor Group said in an Aug. 12 press release that artificial intelligence (AI) has cut the time its engineers spend searching for and reviewing...

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OpenAI CFO Tells Employees Public Debut Coming by 2027
OpenAI CFO Tells Employees Public Debut Coming by 2027
August 19, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027,” if not sooner, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told employees Wednesday (Aug. 19) during an all-hands meeting,...

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Carvana Shares Rebound as Mark Walter Selloff Fears Ease
Carvana Shares Rebound as Mark Walter Selloff Fears Ease
August 19, 2026  |  eCommerce

Carvana shares climbed as much as 9.3% Wednesday (Aug. 19), after dropping 14% over the previous two days, when a report said billionaire Mark Walter...

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