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IPO
SoftBank-Backed OPay Eyes $4 Billion Valuation in US IPO

OPay Digital Services, a payments platform focused on Nigeria and backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and Sequoia...

Earnings
Lemonade and Porch Show AI Is Rewriting Insurance Math

Earnings from Porch Group and Lemonade show artificial intelligence (AI) moving into core insurance...

Earnings
Ares Raises Record $30 Billion Despite Private Credit Valuation Slump

Global alternative investment manager Ares Management raised $30 billion in the first quarter, a...

Credit Cards
How Credit Card Apps Turn Engagement Into Spend

Credit card apps aren’t just for checking balances and paying bills. They also help...

Payments Innovation
Frontline Workers Shift From Getting Ahead to Getting By

Historically, payments have been an activity-based business. Revenues are tied to transaction volume, interchange...

Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services Pulls Ahead in the Enterprise AI Race

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a fixture in large enterprises. It’s being funded, deployed...

Fraud Prevention
Trulioo Sees 10x Gains From Smarter Data Use

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Trulioo’s Hal Lonas Get the Full Story...

Fraud Prevention
WEX Puts Fraud Detection on a 500-Millisecond Clock

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With WEX’s William Fitzgerald Get the Full Story...

Mastercard
Mastercard Sees Data Moving Payments From KYC to KYA

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mastercard’s Kaushik Gopal Get the Full Story...

artificial intelligence
Chargebacks911 Prevents False Declines as Agentic Commerce Scales

Chargebacks911 offers tools that solve a growing challenge for merchants: legitimate artificial intelligence shopping...

CFPB
CFPB Eases Reporting Rules for Small Business Lenders

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has reduced the small business data collection and...

Apple
Apple’s AI Challenge Moves to Center Stage as Ternus Era...

Apple’s earnings call was, on the surface, a story about iPhone momentum and Mac...

artificial intelligence
Cancer Never Saw the Algorithm Coming

Pancreatic cancer kills most of its patients because there is nothing to find by...

Earnings
Wayfair Deploys AI and Influencers to Beat Furniture Slump

Artificial intelligence (AI) and influencers helped Wayfair outperform the home furnishings category during the first quarter, Niraj...

eCommerce
Carvana Sets Records as Inflation Drives Used Car Demand

The used car market could get a boost from the rising costs of goods...

artificial intelligence
Anthropic Outage Shows AI Is Straining the Digital Stack

The five nines gold standard of digital reliability is cracking in 2026. Get the...

artificial intelligence
ElevenLabs Opened a Music Store While Taylor Swift Lawyered Up 

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) changed the economics of music fast. The harder questions about...

Economy
Americans Keep Buying While the Buffer Shrinks

The wallets are open, but the runway is getting shorter. Consumer spending in March...

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