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Smart Contracts Connect B2B Workflows to Real-Time Payments
Smart Contracts Connect B2B Workflows to Real-Time Payments
October 21, 2026  |  B2B Payments

In the commercial payments realm, invoices need validation, discrepancies warrant resolution and someone (or an authorized system) ultimately approve the release of funds. Smart contracts...

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OpenAI Brings Its Frontier AI Models to Google Cloud
OpenAI Brings Its Frontier AI Models to Google Cloud
October 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI has launched a new partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) rival Google. This collaboration brings OpenAI’s frontier AI models and Codex⁠ agentic workflows to Google Cloud’s Model...

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EBay Cuts 1,100 Jobs to Pivot Toward High-Growth Markets
EBay Cuts 1,100 Jobs to Pivot Toward High-Growth Markets
October 21, 2026  |  Personnel

EBay plans to lay off 9% of its workforce, or about 1,100 people, as it sharpens its focus on faster-growing markets, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct....

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Visa Says New Tools to Protect Virtual Commercial Card Payments From Fraud
Visa Says New Tools to Protect Virtual Commercial Card Payments From Fraud
October 21, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Visa has introduced new capabilities designed to keep commercial virtual card payments safer. Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions are part of a series of new capabilities designed...

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JPMorgan Gets Closer to Clinching Nigerian Banking License
JPMorgan Gets Closer to Clinching Nigerian Banking License
October 21, 2026  |  Banking

J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly getting closer to obtaining a banking license in Nigeria. The largest U.S. bank has deposited 50 billion naira ($37.5 million)...

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Stablecoins Need to Get Behind Cards, Not Replace Them
Stablecoins Need to Get Behind Cards, Not Replace Them
October 21, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Watch more: Paymentology Says AI Agents Must Earn the Right to Move Money The stablecoin industry has spent possibly too much time trying to reinvent...

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AI Made Inventions Cheaper. Now the Challenge Is Getting Them to Market.
AI Made Inventions Cheaper. Now the Challenge Is Getting Them to Market.
October 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: TechReg Talks With Matthew J. Dowd and Judge Paul Michel Artificial intelligence is making it cheaper to invent. That doesn’t mean, however, that...

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Finance Embraces Gen AI but Stops Short of Autonomous Cash Management
Finance Embraces Gen AI but Stops Short of Autonomous Cash Management
October 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Finance departments have moved quickly to put generative artificial intelligence to work. They’ve been far more cautious about letting AI act on its own. Generative...

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The Agentic Edge: Who Has It and How to Get It
The Agentic Edge: Who Has It and How to Get It
October 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Remember travel agents? Not the AI kind. The real people kind. For anyone under the age of 30, here’s how it worked. You walked into...

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