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Digital Payments Reshape Insurance Competition

Digital Payments Reshape Insurance Competition
Digital Payments Reshape Insurance Competition
January 30, 2026  |  Opinion

Succeeding in insurance payments requires building scalable ecosystems, One Inc CEO Ian Drysdale writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.”...

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Visa Credentials Soar as Payments Hyperscaler Eyes Agentic Commerce
Visa Credentials Soar as Payments Hyperscaler Eyes Agentic Commerce
January 29, 2026  |  Earnings

Visa entered fiscal 2026 with ample evidence that credentials, and not just cards, now anchor its global payments architecture. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Apple Signals AI Will Power Payments Security and Growth
Apple Signals AI Will Power Payments Security and Growth
January 29, 2026  |  Earnings

Apple just turned in what CEO Tim Cook called “a quarter for the record books” Thursday (Jan. 29) and the headline numbers back him up....

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Saks Global to Shutter Majority of off-Price Stores in Shift to Luxury Focus
Saks Global to Shutter Majority of off-Price Stores in Shift to Luxury Focus
January 29, 2026  |  Retail

Saks Global will wind down the majority of its off-price operations, including most Saks OFF 5TH locations and all Neiman Marcus Last Call stores, Reuters...

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Google DeepMind Introduces Project Genie for Interactive AI World Building
Google DeepMind Introduces Project Genie for Interactive AI World Building
January 29, 2026  |  Google

Google DeepMind has introduced Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that uses its latest world-model artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and explore interactive virtual environments,...

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Senate Crypto Bill Finds Common Ground on Data Standards
Senate Crypto Bill Finds Common Ground on Data Standards
January 29, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

U.S. federal regulators are no longer circling the crypto question. They are building the machinery to answer it. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Nu Wins Conditional Approval for US National Bank Charter
Nu Wins Conditional Approval for US National Bank Charter
January 29, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

Digital financial services giant Nu received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a new national bank in...

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ECB’s Cipollone: Digital Euro to Anchor Europe’s Retail Payment Infrastructure
ECB’s Cipollone: Digital Euro to Anchor Europe’s Retail Payment Infrastructure
January 29, 2026  |  Digital Payments

European payments sovereignty moved back to the top of the policy agenda Thursday (Jan. 29) as European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone...

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