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DOJ Seizes $84 Million From Payments Firm Capstone

DOJ Seizes $84 Million From Payments Firm Capstone
DOJ Seizes $84 Million From Payments Firm Capstone
September 25, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

The Justice Department seized bank accounts of Montana-based payments business Capstone, alleging that the company was unlicensed, misrepresented its business to U.S. banks and may...

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Why Building AI Agents Is No Longer the Hardest Part of Agentic Commerce
Why Building AI Agents Is No Longer the Hardest Part of Agentic Commerce
September 25, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Sabrina Therani Agentic commerce is becoming an infrastructure race. The biggest agentic constraint today is not whether AI...

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51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
September 25, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud budgets are moving in two different directions. Fifty-one percent of global eCommerce merchants expect spending on fraud-management staff to remain flat or decline, while...

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Digital Freelancers Find More Work and New Pressure on Pay
Digital Freelancers Find More Work and New Pressure on Pay
September 25, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

AI can produce a first draft. Someone still has to make the finished work worth paying for. The September 2026 edition of The Wage to...

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Fed Proposes Stablecoin Reserve and Capital Rules Under GENIUS Act
Fed Proposes Stablecoin Reserve and Capital Rules Under GENIUS Act
September 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The Federal Reserve Board is requesting public comment on two proposals related to establishing a regulatory framework for the payment stablecoin issuers it supervises under...

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Revolut Wins Central Bank Approval to Acquire Argentine Bank
Revolut Wins Central Bank Approval to Acquire Argentine Bank
September 24, 2026  |  Banking

Revolut is moving ahead with the completion of its acquisition of Argentine bank Banco Cetelem Argentina S.A. after receiving approval from the Central Bank of...

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Buyers Want to Pay Later. Suppliers Want Cash Earlier. Who Funds the Difference?
Buyers Want to Pay Later. Suppliers Want Cash Earlier. Who Funds the Difference?
September 24, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The oldest tension in B2B payments is becoming one of its newest business models. A dollar cannot simultaneously stay longer on the buyer’s balance sheet...

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Databricks Buys Spreadsheet Builder Row Zero to Enhance AI Coworker
Databricks Buys Spreadsheet Builder Row Zero to Enhance AI Coworker
September 24, 2026  |  Acquiring

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks has acquired spreadsheet builder Row Zero, Databricks said in a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release. Row Zero’s spreadsheet is built to allow humans...

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