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Mastercard Plans to Connect 500 Million More Underbanked People

Mastercard Plans to Connect 500 Million More Underbanked People
Mastercard Plans to Connect 500 Million More Underbanked People
April 06, 2026  |  Mastercard

After helping connect 1 billion people and 65 million small businesses to the digital economy over the past decade, Mastercard has committed to connect another...

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Amazon Reaffirms USPS Logistics Partnership
Amazon Reaffirms USPS Logistics Partnership
April 06, 2026  |  Amazon

Amazon said Monday (April 6) that it has reached a new deal with the United States Postal Service (USPS) in which the postal agency will continue to...

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Polymarket Readies Platform Overhaul With New Collateral Token
Polymarket Readies Platform Overhaul With New Collateral Token
April 06, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Polymarket plans to introduce a stablecoin as part of an upgrade of its prediction market exchange. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Sezzle Financial Literacy Tools Help Consumers Develop Better Habits
Sezzle Financial Literacy Tools Help Consumers Develop Better Habits
April 06, 2026  |  financial apps

Sezzle found in a March consumer survey that engagement with its financial literacy tool MoneyIQ correlates with improved consumer habits. Get the Full Story Complete...

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CBDC Debate Signals Privacy Fault Line in Digital Money’s Future
CBDC Debate Signals Privacy Fault Line in Digital Money’s Future
April 06, 2026  |  CBDC

The progress of crypto policy in Washington has been nearly as volatile as digital asset markets themselves. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Middle East FinTech Funding Shifts Toward Local Infrastructure
Middle East FinTech Funding Shifts Toward Local Infrastructure
April 06, 2026  |  Fintech Investments

The Middle East has, in recent years, stood out among the more productive settings for payments innovation, where digital adoption and infrastructure development have advanced...

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Perplexity Launches AI Agent That Drafts Tax Returns
Perplexity Launches AI Agent That Drafts Tax Returns
April 06, 2026  |  Taxes

Every spring, millions of Americans sit down to do their taxes with a pile of forms, a browser full of tabs and a sense that...

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Senator Hagerty Expects CLARITY Act to Reach Full Senate This Month
Senator Hagerty Expects CLARITY Act to Reach Full Senate This Month
April 06, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency-focused CLARITY Act could be advanced by the Senate Banking Committee and reach the full Senate by the end of the month, Sen. Bill...

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Stablecoin Pilots Keep Stalling on the Road to Scale
Stablecoin Pilots Keep Stalling on the Road to Scale
April 06, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins seem to have found their winning enterprise narrative. Having evolved past their history as crypto-native instruments, stablecoins are instead becoming programmable financial primitives embedded...

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