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Regulation
SEC Chairman Urges Clear Rules for On-Chain Trading

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins said Friday (May 8) that he believes...

artificial intelligence
AI Finally Solves the Food Tracking Problem Wearables Ignored

Wearables track sleep, heart rate and recovery in real time. Logging a meal still...

Bank Regulation
Seventh Circuit Resets Illinois Swipe-Fee Fight as July 1 Deadline...

The legal fight over Illinois’ first-in-the-nation swipe fee law is headed back to federal...

Economy
Labor Economy Workers Keep the Jobs Market Moving

The labor market added jobs at a moderate pace in April, but the latest...

artificial intelligence
Anthropic Found AI Makes Impractical Work Worth Doing

The productivity debate around enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) has narrowed to one question: how...

SMBs
Mastercard Rallies Partners to Support MENA Small Businesses

Mastercard has launched a program designed to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across...

Identity
The Bank Hung Up on the Pope

The modern trust economy was built to eliminate ambiguity. Instead, it’s producing more of...

Social Commerce
AI Fakes the Founder and Keeps the Money

A video appeared on Instagram a few weeks ago: a granddaughter describing how her...

Cybersecurity
IMF Recommends New Resilience Standards to Counter AI Cyberattacks

At a time of rapidly accelerating cyber risk driven by artificial intelligence, cybersecurity is...

Google
Google AI Automates Ad Bidding and Budget Pacing

Google has unveiled some soon-to-be-released artificial intelligence (AI)-powered bidding and budgeting tools for Search...

Earnings
FIS Frames Tokenized Deposits as Banks’ Answer to Stablecoins

As banks revisit the architecture underpinning payments, fraud controls and digital money movement, FIS’...

Blockchain
ECB President Lagarde Says Stablecoins Fail to Support Euro Ambitions

Europe must build its own modernized settlement solutions anchored by central bank money, because...

Earnings
Uber and Lyft Stopped Competing and Started Thriving

The rivalry between Uber Technologies and Lyft has traditionally revolved around the same core...

Artificial Intelligence
67% of Boomers Still Sit Outside AI’s Reach

Forget the robot concierge. Consumers are warming up to artificial intelligence one mundane errand...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Valuation Could Eclipse OpenAI in $50 Billion Funding Round

Anthropic is considering a funding round in which it would raise as much as...

PYMNTS Data Lab
Why Main Street Is Splitting: The Data Behind Small Business Winners...

Main Street businesses are losing momentum after a strong post-pandemic rebound, and the latest...

Payments Innovation
Platforms That Own Payments Own More of the Customer

Watch more: Need to Know With Maverick Payments’ Rachel Costello Get the Full Story...

Artificial Intelligence
34% of CFOs Say Productivity Is the Top Reason for...

The real story in artificial intelligence is not adoption, but how unevenly companies are...

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