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Digital Asset has raised $135 million to promote adoption of its Canton Network blockchain. Get the Full...

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Recent research reveals that a significant portion of consumers regularly face substantial unplanned expenses,...

Main Street is struggling. Faced with stubborn inflation, cautious consumer spending and the U.S....

Seamless transactions have moved from novelty to necessity for both shoppers and merchants. Get...

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is solidifying its position as a global leader in...

Stablecoins represent an important opportunity for a subset of use cases, including in emerging...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is behind many of today’s most cutting-edge capabilities. It helps power...

Visa defeated a proposed class action lawsuit that alleged that the company did not...

Members of the founding team of embedded lending platform Vaya Technologies have joined embedded capital...

By any measure, 2025 is shaping up to be “Hot Tech Summer.” Get the...

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Botpress has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round to expand its...

Cross-border payments FinTech Tensec raised $12 million in new funding. Get the Full Story...

Apple is reportedly in eleventh-hour negotiations with European regulators about changes to its App...

Walmart Deals will be offered online and in stores for the first time when...

Business travel and expense management solution provider Navan said Friday (June 20) that it confidentially...

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna unveiled its latest unconventional innovation. Get the...

Decentralized finance company DeFi Development has launched a partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. Get...

Wealth management platform Wealthfront is reportedly the latest FinTech planning to go public. Get...

AT&T’s proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit involving data breaches reportedly received a judge’s...

Goldman Sachs reportedly expanded the availability of its artificial intelligence assistant across the firm....

Real estate brokerage Compass has reportedly sued Zillow for its ban on private home...

Payments technology FinTech Icon Solutions has landed an equity investment from UBS. Get the...

Payments and financial services technology provider Fiserv is entering the stablecoin business. Get the...

Investor Anthony Pompliano has launched a bitcoin treasury whose balance sheet would hold $1...

Digits added artificial intelligence agents to its AI-native accounting platform, Autonomous General Ledger (AGL)....

Global trade is only global thanks to key commercial arteries established over the duration...

Reports of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s death have been exaggerated. Get the Full...

FICO will launch its first credit scores that incorporate buy now, pay later (BNPL)...

Integrated payments and commerce technology firm Shift4 agreed to acquire Australian payments processor Smartpay....

In 2000, USA Today was the most circulated newspaper in the United States. More...

Indian digital payments provider PhonePe is reportedly planning to go public in an IPO....

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Worried about your financial situation? You’re in good company. PYMNTS Intelligence’s Paycheck-to-Paycheck index hit...

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The digital transformation sweeping consumer finance is now reshaping the landscape of B2B payments,...

Since 2020, PYMNTS has tracked nearly 2 billion data points to understand how consumers...

Mobile wallets rapidly emerging as a pivotal force in how consumers conduct in-store transactions...

The CE 100 Index barely budged in a week shortened by the Juneteenth holiday....

Financial crime prevention firm NetGuardians has merged with transaction data analytics provider Intix. Get...

Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) has reportedly approached Northern Trust about a merger....

A proposed ban on state-level artificial intelligence (AI) regulation will remain in President Donald...

In 2023, state and federal consumer watchdogs sued subprime auto group Credit Acceptance. Get...

Thinking Machine, a startup founded by an ex-OpenAI executive, is now a $10 billion...

Walmart has agreed to settle a government claim that it ignores scammers within its...

Walmart is spending billions on a new headquarters as it takes on digitally native...

Amazon’s returns policy has reportedly become a sore point for some of the company’s...

Apple has reportedly held in-house talks about acquiring artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity AI....

If you’ve scrolled through Instagram lately or wandered the halls of Art Basel, you’ve...

Restaurant chains Applebee’s and IHOP will reportedly begin using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for both customer-facing and...

The debate over regulation of the credit card industry will likely linger no matter...

Swedish electric vehicle brand Polestar has gained a $200 million equity investment from PSD Investment,...

Humanoid robots could reportedly begin helping assemble Nvidia artificial intelligence servers at a factory...

Republicans’ plan to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and...

Used car retailer CarMax saw greater loan losses and economic uncertainty during the quarter...

Uber Technologies’ artificial intelligence (AI) data services business, Uber AI Solutions, has added new...

For decades, banking infrastructure meant heavy metal — mainframes, on premises, in-house and legacy...

Multiplier Holdings announced its public launch Wednesday (June 18), saying it had raised $27.5...

Thirty databases containing a total of 16 billion login records for a variety of...

SoftBank is reportedly seeking support from partners and the U.S. government to build a...

The BBC has threatened legal action against AI search engine Perplexity, escalating tensions between...

In a world beset by geopolitical uncertainty, tightening credit markets and rising capital costs,...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly prominent—and fast-evolving—role at large U.S. firms. While...

The retail experience in 2025 has left definitions like “physical” and “digital” behind. Instead,...

Faster payments are fundamentally changing how commercial banks and credit unions deliver value and...

Online businesses are grappling with a pervasive problem that costs them sales: the abandoned...

In Brazil, consumers are highly engaged digitally, yet they struggle with completing transactions. Get...

Headed into the Juneteenth holiday, and nearing the end of a shortened trading week,...

Once upon a time, credit unions (CUs) and FinTechs eyed each other warily. However,...

X’s CEO says the social media platform will “soon” offer an investment/trading option. Get...

Coinbase has launched a stablecoin payments stack developed for eCommerce platforms. Get the Full...

Syria has reportedly made its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT system since...

Wall Street’s on-again, off-again love affair with SPAC deals is apparently back on. Get...

Google has reportedly been dealt a setback in trying to overturn a record European...

Payments platform Alipay says it has made the world’s first-ever smart glasses-embedded e-wallet payment....

American tariff policy is reportedly set to make the cost of buying a car...

Credit cards remain a central payment instrument for consumers, and their appeal is intrinsically...

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The biggest retail trend of 2025 might not be the rise of artificial intelligence...

Traditional 9-to-5 employment, and the bi-weekly paycheck, is no longer sufficient for a significant...

Banks and FinTechs are navigating a complex “money mobility” ecosystem, transforming simple payments into...

Meta is reportedly in talks to hire artificial intelligence (AI) investors Nat Friedman and...

OpenAI is reportedly phasing out its involvement with data-labeling startup Scale AI due to...

Visa has partnered with licensed stablecoin payments orchestrator Yellow Card to explore stablecoin use cases...

Affirm has announced a new revolving pass-through loan sale facility in which PGIM Fixed...

Illinois has delayed for one year the implementation of a law that would bar...

Instacart says it is introducing new delivery options for some of the country’s biggest...

Pelico has raised $40 million to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence-powered supply...

Managed services/managed security services provider Abacus Group has acquired Entara. Get the Full Story...

The artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle has had no shortage of projections, pronouncements and...

Waymo has applied for a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York...

Payments company Klarna says it is getting into the mobile business. Get the Full Story Complete...

The Justice Department filed a civil forfeiture complaint Wednesday (June 18) targeting over $225.3...

America’s consumer protection watchdog has proposed scaling back use of its civil penalty fund....

SandboxAQ has launched a dataset designed to help researchers advance artificial intelligence (AI) models...

Crypto, in all of its forms, is poised to move more mainstream, blurring lines...

Can AI become less rigid in its thinking when exposed to human reasoning? Get...

Credit unions closed 32 locations during the first quarter, the largest drop since 2021....

Crypto payment solution provider Alchemy Pay now supports fiat on-ramp access via Ripple USD...

When JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest U.S. bank, announces something new, the financial world frequently...

IBM has integrated two of its products and added enhancements to help businesses keep...

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