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MIT Student Invents Breakthrough Art Restoration Technique

Ever since he was a child, Alex Kachkine has been fascinated by paintings. He...

Cryptocurrency
BVNK and Bitwave Partner to Help Enterprises Adopt Stablecoin Payments

BVNK and Bitwave have partnered to help enterprise finance teams send and receive stablecoin invoice...

B2B Payments
PhotonPay Adds Physical Mastercard Commercial Credit Card to Global Payment...

PhotonPay has added a physical Mastercard Commercial Credit Card to its portfolio of global payment solutions....

Partnerships
Citi and Ant International Pilot AI-Enhanced FX Risk Management Solution

Citi and Ant International are piloting a jointly developed, artificial intelligence-enhanced foreign exchange (FX)...

Economy
Consumer Sentiment Rose in July, Though Inflation Concerns Continue

Consumer sentiment inched up in July to reach its highest level in five months,...

Cryptocurrency
Trump Signs GENIUS Bill as Private Stablecoins Corner CBDCs in...

It finally happened. On Friday (July 18), at a White House Ceremony, U.S. President...

Buy Now Pay Later
UK’s FCA Proposes New Protections for BNPL Borrowers

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority proposed new protections for buy now, pay later...

Earnings
American Express Likes What It Sees in ‘Wait and See’...

American Express isn’t waiting for the economy to make up its mind. It’s already...

Artificial Intelligence
This Week in AI: AI Startups Hit Fundraising Gold

Fortunes are being spent in artificial intelligence (AI), with Perplexity, Thinking Machines and Anthropic...

artificial intelligence
Meta Rejects European Commission’s AI Code of Practice, Citing ‘Overreach’

Meta will not sign the European Commission’s code of practice for general-purpose AI models,...

Meta
Meta Continues AI Focus by Adding 2 Ex-Apple Researchers

Meta reportedly continued its artificial intelligence (AI)-focused hiring spree by adding two AI researchers...

Earnings
Regions Financial: Tech Investments Drove 10% YOY Revenue Growth

Regions Financial Corp.’s investments in technology and talent drove 10% year-over-year growth in revenue...

artificial intelligence
OpenAI Transforms ChatGPT Into an AI Agent

OpenAI is rolling out a major update that transforms ChatGPT from a conversational AI...

Earnings
Truist Accelerates Push Into Digital Lending

Amid macro uncertainty, shifting interest rate dynamics and a skeptical market, mitigating risk while...

Cryptocurrency
Crypto Market Reaches All-Time High After House Passes 3 Bills

The total value of the cryptocurrency market hit an all-time high Thursday (July 17),...

artificial intelligence
Perplexity AI Hits $18 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round

Perplexity AI, the generative AI search startup, has secured $100 million in new capital,...

Retail
Retailers Rely on Modern POS to Beat Uncertainty

Watch more: Unified Commerce Starts With the Modern POS Get the Full Story Complete...

Banking
Customer Metrics Define the Anatomy of Excellence for Card Issuing

Achieving best-in-class status as a modern card issuer is paramount for sustained growth and...

SMBs
Small Businesses Say Credit Card Rewards Don’t Cut It

For millions of smaller businesses across America, the ubiquitous credit card has become less...

Amazon
Speed Versus Spend: Who Shopped Amazon and Walmart’s Deal Days...

As consumer prices inch up amid the Trump administration’s global tariffs agenda, shoppers are even...

Opinion
Payments Firms Accelerate Automation to Conquer Second-Half Headwinds

Companies are using AI to streamline identity and business verification and fight fraud, Trulioo...

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