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Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart

Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart
Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart
August 21, 2026  |  Retail

Retail media is giving Walmart, Target and Amazon a faster-growing source of revenue than their core retail businesses, built on the same traffic, searches and...

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CFTC Roundtable Exposes Regulatory Rift Over Prediction-Market Risks
CFTC Roundtable Exposes Regulatory Rift Over Prediction-Market Risks
August 21, 2026  |  Markets

Prediction-market executives clashed Thursday (Aug. 20) over how regulators should police manipulation and insider trading, exposing a widening divide between established derivatives exchanges and newer...

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Instant Payments Unlock Working Capital by Allowing Treasury to Pay Later
Instant Payments Unlock Working Capital by Allowing Treasury to Pay Later
August 21, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

The unexpected advantage of instant transactions for B2B firms is not faster payment but removing settlement float from payment terms. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
August 21, 2026  |  Investments

Dexmal, a Chinese firm developing embodied artificial intelligence to control robots, is seeking a valuation of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a funding round,...

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Banks Prepare Payments for AI Commerce
Banks Prepare Payments for AI Commerce
August 21, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

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Credit Union Chatbot Adoption Jumps From 3% to 46%
Credit Union Chatbot Adoption Jumps From 3% to 46%
August 21, 2026  |  SMBs

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be climbing the strategic agenda at credit unions, but the most consequential gap is no longer one of awareness. It is...

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83% of Financial Firms Rate ID Systems Highly Despite Customer Friction
83% of Financial Firms Rate ID Systems Highly Despite Customer Friction
August 21, 2026  |  Digital Identity

Financial firms have confidence to spare in digital identity systems, even when the results leave plenty of room for improvement. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Ross Posts 13% Sales Jump as Inflation Drives Shoppers to Off-Price Retailers
Ross Posts 13% Sales Jump as Inflation Drives Shoppers to Off-Price Retailers
August 20, 2026  |  Retail

Off-price retailer Ross Stores saw “robust” sales growth in the quarter ended Aug. 1 as both existing customers and new ones sought prices lower than...

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