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The Economic Warning Sign Hiding Behind White-Collar Layoffs
The Economic Warning Sign Hiding Behind White-Collar Layoffs
December 30, 2025  |  Economy

White-collar layoffs at firms like McKinsey and Amazon grab headlines for their implications about artificial intelligence and tariff pressures replacing plum jobs. But there’s another...

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Manual Billing Costs Banks $98.5 Million Every Year
Manual Billing Costs Banks $98.5 Million Every Year
December 30, 2025  |  Banking

Banks have spent years tuning front-end digital experiences, yet a growing share of revenue risk now sits deeper inside the institution, where billing logic, pricing...

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CFOs Are Sitting on Hidden Cash but May Not Know It
CFOs Are Sitting on Hidden Cash but May Not Know It
December 29, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

As artificial intelligence (AI) use increases within accounts payable (AP) departments, it is starting to surface patterns and deliver insights that many finance teams were...

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53% of Banks Move to Fraud Orchestration as Attacks Grow Smarter
53% of Banks Move to Fraud Orchestration as Attacks Grow Smarter
December 29, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud prevention is no longer defined by how many tools a merchant deploys, but by how well those tools work together across the full payment...

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Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025
Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025
December 26, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

In 2025, payments, banking and commerce crossed a quiet but consequential threshold. Technologies that once promised efficiency or differentiation became nonnegotiable foundations, reshaping how money...

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Healthcare Costs Force One in Four Gen Z to Skip Care
Healthcare Costs Force One in Four Gen Z to Skip Care
December 26, 2025  |  Healthcare

For younger Americans, healthcare spending is becoming less about treating illness and more about managing financial risk at a stage of life when cash flow...

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Connected Tech Ownership Drives Changes in How Consumers Pay
Connected Tech Ownership Drives Changes in How Consumers Pay
December 26, 2025  |  Connected Economy

Consumers are not racing to add more devices, but the way those devices shape how people pay is changing steadily and in ways that matter...

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Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
December 24, 2025  |  Fraud Attack

The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online interactions, and makes consumers and companies vulnerable to fraudsters. Get...

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Retail Closes the Holiday Season Leaner and More Focused
Retail Closes the Holiday Season Leaner and More Focused
December 24, 2025  |  Retail

Retail in 2025 was defined less by a single breakthrough than by a set of pressures that forced retailers to get practical. Consumers kept shopping....

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