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14,000 Open Banking Rule Comments Show Deep Divides Over Privacy

14,000 Open Banking Rule Comments Show Deep Divides Over Privacy
14,000 Open Banking Rule Comments Show Deep Divides Over Privacy
October 24, 2025  |  Banking

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received 13,979 public comments on its plan to revise rules governing data sharing under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act....

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AI Experts Predict Human-Level Intelligence Could Arrive by 2047
AI Experts Predict Human-Level Intelligence Could Arrive by 2047
October 24, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

This month, researchers from AI Impacts and the universities of Oxford and Bonn released what has become the largest survey to date of artificial intelligence...

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Citi and Mastercard Offer ‘Citi Flex Pay’ to Expand Installment Options
Citi and Mastercard Offer ‘Citi Flex Pay’ to Expand Installment Options
October 24, 2025  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Citi cardholders will be able to begin using the bank’s pay-over-time solution, Citi Flex Pay, at checkout. This will be available at merchants participating in...

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AI Makes Inroads in Legal Industry as Funding Tops $2.4 Billion
AI Makes Inroads in Legal Industry as Funding Tops $2.4 Billion
October 24, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is making its deepest inroads yet into the legal profession. It is turning pilot-scale experimentation into production-level automation. From research and contracting to...

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Making Sense of the Liquidity Hub Treasury Model
Making Sense of the Liquidity Hub Treasury Model
October 24, 2025  |  B2B Payments

Controlling for what’s controllable is often the best enterprise strategy in times of uncertainty. And that puts the finance department on the front line. Get...

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Authorized Push Payment Fraud Losses in UK Rise 12%
Authorized Push Payment Fraud Losses in UK Rise 12%
October 24, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

Authorized push payment (APP) fraud drove an increase in losses to payment fraud and scams in the first half of the year in the United...

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Enova Sees Subprime Borrowers Driving Strong Loan Growth
Enova Sees Subprime Borrowers Driving Strong Loan Growth
October 24, 2025  |  Earnings

Enova International’s third quarter results, released Thursday (Oct. 23) after the market closed, showed that consumers, including subprime consumers, are managing their finances with aplomb,...

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Snowball & Co. Combines Adro and Finfare Money into One Company
Snowball & Co. Combines Adro and Finfare Money into One Company
October 24, 2025  |  Acquisitions

Diversified technology investment company Snowball & Co. has acquired FinTech startup Adro and will combine it with the investment company’s FinTech subsidiary, Finfare Money. Get...

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OpenAI-Backed Valthos Raises $30 Million to Combat AI-Enabled Biological Threats
OpenAI-Backed Valthos Raises $30 Million to Combat AI-Enabled Biological Threats
October 24, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Valthos said Friday (Oct. 24) that it has raised $30 million to build “next-generation biodefense” to combat the threat of biological threats enabled by artificial...

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