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Acquisitions
Ally Sells $2.3 Billion Credit Card Business to CardWorks

Ally Financial has sold its credit card business to consumer finance company Cardworks. The deal, announced...

SMBs
JPMorgan COO Pinto: Private Credit Small Business Lending Needs Monitoring

J.P. Morgan Chase President and Chief Operating Officer Daniel Pinto is calling for more...

ANTITRUST
UK Ousts Antitrust Head and Replaces Him With Ex-Amazon Exec

The U.K. has reportedly replaced its competition watchdog for failing to prioritize the government’s...

eCommerce
Five Years Post-COVID, We’re Really Not Shopping (or Doing Much...

Turns out, we can learn a lot of things about people by studying rats....

artificial intelligence
Google Deepens Anthropic Partnership With New $1 Billion Investment

Google is reportedly investing more than $1 billion into artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic....

Acquisitions
MrBeast Joins Investor Group in Bid to Buy TikTok

Social media star MrBeast wants to purchase the platform that helped make him famous....

Consumer Finance
CPG Firms Missing Out as Treasurers Face Collaboration Barriers

Treasurers can play a vital role in consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. Their input...

artificial intelligence
Visa AI Head Predicts ‘Very Fast’ Timeline for GenAI Integration

GenAI is part of many conversations these days. And it’s true the technology has...

B2B Payments
Is GenAI the Secret Weapon Invoices Have Been Waiting For?

The digitization of B2B payments has proceeded along a path where FinTechs, platforms, banks...

Payroll
72% of Workers Prefer Instant Payroll If Given Choice

As criticism of traditional biweekly and monthly payroll systems increases, workers in gig, freelance...

Security & Fraud
Geolocation Tech Makes Its Case as Fraud Fighter

Fraudsters have always had a knack for adapting to the game. But the latest...

Credit Cards
Generational Divide in Online Shopping? Not So Fast, Says New...

Conventional wisdom is that younger generations are tech-savvy and the most willing to try...

Opinion
i2c Credits ‘What If?’ Approach for New Payment Hub

Technology plays a vital role in enabling innovation in banking and payments, i2c Global...

Banking
Capital One’s Card Purchase Volumes Grow 7%, Charge-Off Rate Is...

Capital One’s fourth quarter results, released after the market closed on Tuesday (Jan. 21),...

Banking
Fifth Third Gains Deposits by Investing in Branches and Banking...

Ohio-based Fifth Third Bancorp is seeing gains from its investments in new branches in...

Streaming
Netflix Sees 19 Million New Subscribers in Q4

Netflix closed out Q4 of 2024 with a record 19 million net new subscribers in...

artificial intelligence
Google DeepMind CEO: AI-Designed Drugs Coming to Clinical Trials in...

Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Tuesday (Jan. 21) that he...

Regulation
FTC Begins Sending Refunds to Victims of Debt Relief Scheme

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun sending more than $5 million in refunds...

Fraud Prevention
Judge Rules New York Lawsuit Against Citibank Can Proceed

Citibank will have to face a New York state lawsuit alleging that it failed...

artificial intelligence
AWS, PepsiCo and Other CEOs Tell What’s Needed to Scale...

The CEOs of several Global Fortune 500 companies said artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing...

B2B Payments
Springbrook Adds AI Tool for Invoicing to ERP Platform

Springbrook Software added an artificial intelligence tool for invoicing to its Cirrus enterprise resource...

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