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Banks’ Growing Fraud Tech Stacks Create an Integration Challenge
Banks’ Growing Fraud Tech Stacks Create an Integration Challenge
October 20, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Banks have plenty of fraud technology, but getting all of it to work as a cohesive line of defense is becoming a problem. The PYMNTS...

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At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
October 20, 2026  |  Digital Payments

Your phone can handle the checkout. Your hand may still reach for the same old card. Twelve years after Apple Pay arrived, mobile wallets are...

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21% of Financially Stressed Grocery Shoppers Use Digital Wallets
21% of Financially Stressed Grocery Shoppers Use Digital Wallets
October 20, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Grocery shoppers under financial pressure are spending more per purchase, giving retailers an opportunity to help households manage bigger bills with more flexible ways to...

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Ramp Seeks National Trust Bank Charter for Digital Asset Custody
Ramp Seeks National Trust Bank Charter for Digital Asset Custody
October 19, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

Finance platform Ramp aims to form a national trust bank that would offer fiduciary investment management and custody of digital assets, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 19) post on...

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AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%
AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%
October 19, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Issuing a bank guarantee at a large commodity trader is still a desk job. A treasury employee checks how much room is left on a...

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Analysts Expect Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Debut at Apple’s Oct. 28 Event
Analysts Expect Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Debut at Apple’s Oct. 28 Event
October 19, 2026  |  Retail

Apple will host a product launch event dubbed “Pro and tell” on Oct. 28, and analysts expect the company to introduce its first touch-screen MacBook Pro,...

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Kansas City Fed Flags Funding Challenges From Tokenized Deposits
Kansas City Fed Flags Funding Challenges From Tokenized Deposits
October 19, 2026  |  Banking

Banks are developing tokenized deposits to give corporate customers faster access to their money. In doing so, they are making the deposits they use for...

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Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year
Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year
October 19, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

Users of Relay’s small business banking and money management platform have sent over $500 million in cross-border payments through Nium’s global money movement platform since...

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Character.ai Bankruptcy Exposes the High Cost of AI Companionship
Character.ai Bankruptcy Exposes the High Cost of AI Companionship
October 19, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Character.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) companion platform that lets users chat with AI versions of their favorite characters, filed for Chapter 11 on Oct. 12....

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