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At 3%-Plus Rates, Forecasting Errors Have a Real Price Tag for CFOs

At 3%-Plus Rates, Forecasting Errors Have a Real Price Tag for CFOs
At 3%-Plus Rates, Forecasting Errors Have a Real Price Tag for CFOs
August 18, 2026  |  CFO

Corporate cash forecasting was easier to tolerate as an imperfect discipline when idle cash earned almost nothing. After all, for most of the zero-rate era,...

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Personetics Partners With Plaid to Give Banks Deeper Customer Insights
Personetics Partners With Plaid to Give Banks Deeper Customer Insights
August 18, 2026  |  Partnerships

Personetics has added open finance intelligence to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization platform for banks and credit unions by partnering with Plaid, Personetics said in a Tuesday (Aug....

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Visa and Mastercard Join Rain’s Agentic Commerce Coalition
Visa and Mastercard Join Rain’s Agentic Commerce Coalition
August 18, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Stablecoin payments infrastructure company Rain has formed a group to promote agentic commerce development. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Crypto Trade Group Backs Custodia’s Supreme Court Bid
Crypto Trade Group Backs Custodia’s Supreme Court Bid
August 18, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia Bank’s long-running fight for access to the Federal Reserve’s payment system, warning that...

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Meta Faces Reckoning As Social Media Addiction Trial Begins
Meta Faces Reckoning As Social Media Addiction Trial Begins
August 18, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

A trial to determine whether Meta purposely made its apps addictive to children is underway in California. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Square and OpenTable Team on Restaurant Transaction Data
Square and OpenTable Team on Restaurant Transaction Data
August 18, 2026  |  ResTech

Square and restaurant tech provider OpenTable expanded their partnership to enable restaurant operators to manage reservations, payments and guest data on Square software and hardware,...

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Klarna Card Users Hit 6.5 Million but Stock Plunges on Lower Outlook
Klarna Card Users Hit 6.5 Million but Stock Plunges on Lower Outlook
August 18, 2026  |  Earnings

Klarna is getting consumers to use it for more than pay-in-four, but the second quarter also showed what happens to transaction growth when discretionary spending...

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Walmart Investors Hang Hopes on Retail Media as Sales Cool
Walmart Investors Hang Hopes on Retail Media as Sales Cool
August 18, 2026  |  Walmart

Walmart’s investors are counting on the company’s ad business to drive profits as same-store sales growth has cooled and the company’s stock has fallen on...

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