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Personetics Partners With Plaid to Give Banks Deeper Customer Insights

Personetics Partners With Plaid to Give Banks Deeper Customer Insights
Personetics Partners With Plaid to Give Banks Deeper Customer Insights
August 18, 2026  |  Partnerships

Personetics has added open finance intelligence to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization platform for banks and credit unions by partnering with Plaid, Personetics said in a Tuesday (Aug....

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Visa and Mastercard Join Rain’s Agentic Commerce Coalition
Visa and Mastercard Join Rain’s Agentic Commerce Coalition
August 18, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Stablecoin payments infrastructure company Rain has formed a group to promote agentic commerce development. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Crypto Trade Group Backs Custodia’s Supreme Court Bid
Crypto Trade Group Backs Custodia’s Supreme Court Bid
August 18, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia Bank’s long-running fight for access to the Federal Reserve’s payment system, warning that...

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Meta Faces Reckoning As Social Media Addiction Trial Begins
Meta Faces Reckoning As Social Media Addiction Trial Begins
August 18, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

A trial to determine whether Meta purposely made its apps addictive to children is underway in California. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Square and OpenTable Team on Restaurant Transaction Data
Square and OpenTable Team on Restaurant Transaction Data
August 18, 2026  |  ResTech

Square and restaurant tech provider OpenTable expanded their partnership to enable restaurant operators to manage reservations, payments and guest data on Square software and hardware,...

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Klarna Card Users Hit 6.5 Million but Stock Plunges on Lower Outlook
Klarna Card Users Hit 6.5 Million but Stock Plunges on Lower Outlook
August 18, 2026  |  Earnings

Klarna is getting consumers to use it for more than pay-in-four, but the second quarter also showed what happens to transaction growth when discretionary spending...

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Walmart Investors Hang Hopes on Retail Media as Sales Cool
Walmart Investors Hang Hopes on Retail Media as Sales Cool
August 18, 2026  |  Walmart

Walmart’s investors are counting on the company’s ad business to drive profits as same-store sales growth has cooled and the company’s stock has fallen on...

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Congress Considers Overhaul of Federal Financial Privacy Law, but There’s a Catch
Congress Considers Overhaul of Federal Financial Privacy Law, but There’s a Catch
August 18, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

Congress is considering a major rewrite of federal financial privacy law that could offer banks and other financial companies a consequential bargain: substantially stronger consumer...

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