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Blockchain
Coinbase Launches Stablecoin-as-a-Service to Help Businesses Create Their Own Tokens

Coinbase launched a program that helps businesses create their own stablecoins, and, in a separate...

eCommerce
AI-Driven Convenience Is Replacing Traditional Shopping for Consumers

Consumers are increasingly comfortable completing purchases directly inside artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, signaling a...

Banking
FinTech Company Mercury Submits Applications to Become National Bank

FinTech company Mercury has applied for a national bank charter with the Office of...

Regulation
UK Allows Firms to Set Their Own Limits for Contactless...

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said rule changes that will take effect...

Mobile Applications
DraftKings Enters Prediction Markets With Rollout of App and Web...

DraftKings entered prediction markets with the launch of DraftKings Predictions, a standalone app and...

Cross-border Payments
How AI and Orchestration Rewired Cross-Border Payments in 2025

When times get tough, payments need to get easier. That was the case in...

Legal
Defense Spending Law Restricts US Investment in Chinese Tech Companies

A defense spending bill signed into law Thursday (Dec. 18) by President Donald Trump...

Subscriptions
Why the Subscription Business Is No Longer About Content

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Fraud Prevention
Faster Payments Now Depend on Smarter Compliance

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B2B Payments
B2B Platforms Bring Finance to the Moment Decisions Are Made

It’s a turbulent landscape out there for B2B enterprises. And B2B platforms have a...

Economy
Affordability Rewrites the Household Balance Sheet

Rising prices are reshaping not just household budgets but the financial relationship between generations....

Payments Innovation
Payments Modernization Starts With Consumer Insight

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Retail
75% of Retailers See Embedded Finance as a Top Priority

Retailers are no longer treating embedded finance as a checkout enhancement. The data show...

Consumer Insights
Why Pay Timing Is Becoming the New Financial Fault Line

The December 2025 update of the “Wage to Wallet™ Index” reveals an economy that is...

Social Commerce
TikTok Says New Joint Venture Will Enable Continued US Operations

TikTok and parent company ByteDance have signed agreements with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture...

Cybersecurity
OnePay Joins Google’s Agent Payments Protocol as a Credential Provider

Financial services platform OnePay has joined Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), saying it will help make agentic payments more secure, transparent and useful....

artificial intelligence
Consumers Spent $2.5 Billion in ChatGPT Mobile App in 2025

Consumers have spent over $3 billion in OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile app in the roughly 31 months since the app was launched. Get...

Earnings
FedEx’s Network 2.0 Overhaul Shows Resilience Now Beats Reach in...

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artificial intelligence
24 Companies Join US Genesis Mission to Harness AI for...

Twenty-four organizations have either expressed interest in or are already participating in projects related...

artificial intelligence
Inside Colgate’s Enterprise-Wide AI Push

Colgate-Palmolive is pushing enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) beyond chatbots, moving into agentic systems, internal...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT App Store

OpenAI opened its ChatGPT App Directory on Wednesday (Dec. 17), which is a marketplace...

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